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PDF pending restorationScott, Hugh J. – 1979
Concerns and objections regarding minimum competency testing (MCT) are raised. The tests are criticized for their tendencies to: (1) deny variability in growth, development, and intelligence; (2) expose rather than constructively examine underachievers; (3) divert scarce personnel and financial resources to test administration; (4) ignore…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests
CARTER, CHARLES H. – 1966
THE CLINICAL SYNDROMES WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE PRODUCTION OF MENTAL RETARDATION ARE DESCRIBED BY SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, AND ETIOLOGY. SYNDROMES TREATED ARE (1) PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL INFECTIONS, (2) PRENATAL INTOXICATION AND ALLERGIC REACTIONS, (3) PRENATAL TRAUMA, PHYSICAL AGENTS, OR INTOXICATION, (4) BIRTH INJURIES, (5) POSTNATAL POISONS AND ALLERGIC…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Communicable Diseases
Download full textNorthwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1968
The introduction of this report summarizes the laboratory's functions, competencies, and purpose: "to work with all interested organizations, institutions, and agencies in improving the quality of education by applying the results of scientific knowledge and technological development to classroom practice." The three major report…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Annual Reports, Classroom Techniques, Disadvantaged Youth
Sarason, Seymour B.; Doris, John – 1969
A statement of goals and the rationale for organization precede a historical discussion of mental deficiency and society. The problem of labels like IQ and brain injured and the consequences of the diagnostic process are illustrated by case histories; case studies are also used to examine the criteria used to decide who is retarded and to discuss…
Descriptors: Autism, Biological Sciences, Case Records, Clinical Diagnosis
Wichita Unified School District 259, KS. – 1967
COMPENSATORY EDUCATION ACTIVITIES AND SCHOOL SERVICES IN WICHITA, KANSAS, ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT. SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSED ARE THE OBJECTIVES, PROCEDURES, EVALUATION STRATEGIES, AND RESULTS OF EACH ACTIVITY OR SERVICE. THE MOST PREVALENT TYPE OF PROGRAM WAS CORRECTIVE READING. OTHER ACTIVITIES INCLUDED CULTURAL ENRICHMENT, SUMMER PRESCHOOL AND…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Corrective Reading
BENNING, JAMES J.; AND OTHERS – 1968
A FIVE-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS CONDUCTED OF 1550 CHILDREN, 384 OF WHOM WERE INTENSIVELY STUDIED AFTER BEING IDENTIFIED BY THEIR TEACHERS AS DEMONSTRATING SOCIALLY APPROVED OR SOCIALLY DISAPPROVED BEHAVIOR. AFTER 5 YEARS, THE SOCIALLY DISRUPTIVE GROUP OF 192 STUDENTS WAS LOWER IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT THAN THEIR APPROVED…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency
Fishman, Jacob R.; And Others – 1965
The Community Apprentice Program, developed by the Howard University Center for Youth and Community Studies, was an exploratory attempt, through combined rehabilitation, vocational education, and supervised work experience, to train disadvantaged youth as human service aides in child care, recreation, and social research. Seven boys and three…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Curriculum Research, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experiments
Center for Vocational Arts, Norwalk, CT. – 1968
This document is an appendix to the second interim report, "A Pilot Project to Develop a Program of Occupational Training for School Alienated Youth," VT 007 457. Included are the complete reports of the 1967-68 evaluation done by the Office of Field Research and School Services, New York University: (1) A Comparative Study of the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1967
This report contains an extensive description of the efforts made by the South Miami Junior High School (Dade County, Fla.) to accommodate an influx of disadvantaged children. The school instituted an inservice teacher workshop on the problems of desegration and developed an experimental curriculum for a selected group of 50 Negro and white…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Diagnostic Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Curriculum
Frost, Joe L. – 1968
A study of 3 schools in a severely impoverished rural Arkansas school district sought to determine the effects of an enrichment program initiated in one of the schools. Efforts were also made to determine and compare the achievement and resultant gains in intelligence, personality, and academic advancement of welfare recipient and non recipient…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education
Wilson, Leon L. – 1967
Arkansas' evaluation of 1967 programs funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, is based on data from 398 public school districts with about 170,000 disadvantaged students. This evaluation presents information on major achievements and includes descriptions of activities and methods, pressing educational needs, objectives,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Closed Circuit Television, Compensatory Education, Dental Health
National Inst. for Advanced Study in Teaching Disadvantaged Youth, Washington, DC. – 1968
The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), with support from The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education through its Inter-Institutional Program Development Project, has prepared this report as phase 2 of a three-phase project designed to improve the educational approach to disadvantaged children. This report reveals…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs
Meisgeier, Charles – 1966
Citing relevant studies and providing statistical data in 29 figures and 28 tables in the text and 15 appended tables, the report describes the characteristics of Texas' three major ethnic groups, Anglos, Latin Americans, and Negroes; discusses mental retardation in relation to socio-cultural factors, deprivation, health factors, education and…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Black Culture, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1977
This report presents the results of an external evaluation of a model bilingual program for nursery school through third grade students in the municipal schools of Clovis and Portales, New Mexico. The project is divided into three programs--nursery school, kindergarten, and grades 1-3--designed to reach children with limited English-speaking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
Shea, Joseph J.; Hanes, Michael L. – 1977
The investigators hypothesized that home environment variables--as measured by the Home Environment Review, administered upon entrance to kindergarten--account for the variance in children's reading achievement at the end of kindergarten, first, and second grade. One hundred fifty-three children representing a longitudinal, traced sample from two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
