This legislative document contains texts of Senate bills to provide federal assistance for gifted and talented child education programs, and a Senate bill to amend and improve the Adult Education Act. Transcripts of the hearings on these bills contain statements, letters, and other documents provided by interested witnesses from across the…

The Career Opportunities Program (COP) involves eight county school systems in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia with on-the-job preparation of teacher aides while the latter work towards college degrees at Shepherd College. Aides receive educational preparation through specially designed practicums that emphasize materials and methods in a…

This experiment, conducted at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel was undertaken to determine if adolescents of impaired cognitive ability caused by social and/or cultural deprivation could be rehabilitated through the use of proper teaching and counseling methods. Counseling for the experimental group of students was done by a social…

This book contains a synthesis of discussions which took place during the meeting of the UNESCO Institute for Education held in October, 1967 in Hamburg, Germany. The Institute undertook the task of examining various forms of disadvantage deprivation in the various regions of the world, and methods used for remediation of these effects. The aim of…

This letter from Seymour Heyman, Deputy Chancellor of the City University of New York, answers on a point-by-point basis the criticism leveled against the open admissions policy of CUNY by Evans and Novak in an article in the Washington Post. The letter identifies "the utterly baffled freshman" as a newly arrived student from Greece with…

In December 1963, President James A. Perkins established the Committee on Special Educational Projects (COSEP), which was to recommend and initiate programs through which Cornell University could make a larger contribution to the education of qualified students who have been disadvantaged by their economic, cultural, and educational environments.…

This demonstration project was designed to prepare disadvantaged youth from the inner city to meet the requirements for, and perform effectively in, the apprenticeable construction trades in the District of Columbia. Of 160 trainees who were prepared for apprenticeship in two 24-week cycles, there were 143 graduates, of whom 120 were placed in…

This report draws a clear if disturbing picture of the children of Resurrection City, the nature of their family life, and their behavior under duress in the confusion of Resurrection City. The authors worked with the City's 157 children for four weeks. Also included is a discussion of some of the broader implications of this work by a white child…

This report is one of a series on the results of studies conducted with the aim of understanding and assisting culturally disadvantaged pupils in the Israeli school system. A brief educational history of the country and the theoretical basis of the research introduces this report. A detailed description of the socioeconomic background of students…

This paper reports the progress to date and plans of the Appalachian Consortium Special Development Project, funded under Title III of the Higher Education Act. The participating institutions joined the consortium because it was felt that only through a cooperative arrangement could they overcome the limitations of inadequate resources arising…

This is an interim report on the Urban Education Institute, which is designed to provide part-time in-service education for experienced community college personnel. The objectives of the program are listed as follows: to retrain and retool teams of experienced personnel in order to make these personnel more effective/affective in meeting the needs…

In order to overcome the educational deficit of children of low income families provisions were planned for the establishment of libraries staffed full time with a librarian-aide in each of seven elementary schools, having a total project enrollment of 5,713. In addition to the usual printed material the libraries were to have audiovisual…

This study assesses the effectiveness of innovative programs for high risk students at four community junior colleges with somewhat different approaches to remedial education. Each program is described in terms of organizational structure, subject matter content, instructional strategies, counseling services, philosophy and objectives, grading…

The Veterans' Education and Employment Assistance Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-502) is described in this document. The act is structured to amend title 38, United States Code, to set a termination date for veterans' educational benefits, to increase vocational rehabilitation subsistence allowances, educational and training assistance allowances, and…

Article examined the problems of urban education and reviewed a text, Urban Education in America: Problems and Prospects, written by Raymond C. Hummel and John M. Nagle. (RK)