Interviewed 505 undereducated older adults, 95 nutrition site directors, and 83 adult basic education teachers about the older adults' educational needs. Results showed the older adults preferred health-related educational experiences. Found a disparity between the expressed needs of older adults and the perceptions of those who work with them.…

Explains differences between Title I and Chapter I in four primary areas: targeting of funds; fiscal requirements; program design, implementation, and evaluation; and accountability. Argues that the changes significantly diminish the federal role in compensatory education, allow for abuse in implementation of the program, and may cause serious…

Issues raised in the World Bank's Education Sector Working Paper are examined within the framework of other recent policy papers of donor agencies. (MM)

Author visited one of Liverpool's more recent experiments in community education. (Editor/RK)

This report documents efforts to educate children who fled their homes in the 1990s because of civil war in Sudan. Current estimates place the number of displaced people at about two million. The document states that the displaced come from over 60 different ethno-linguistic groups. Many of these people do not speak Arabic and reside at present in…

This chapter addresses the plight of migrant secondary students moving across district lines and encountering challenges such as credit accrual and lack of academic resources. Although graduation requirements differ from state to state, they all amount to a kind of bookkeeping that determines whether a student graduates from high school. The…

There is a need for more precise descriptions of the claims to truth of standardized tests, of their interpretive authority, and of the limits of understanding which are reached through their processes. Typically minority students who score poorly on such tests do because their schools fail to connect with them. Pedagogy, therefore, must somehow…

This document addresses an educational system that is failing Native American children. Despite the trappings of equality, the system is failing to teach Native American children the essential skills of reading, writing, math, and thinking. The mission in Indian education is to enable each child to reach full potential in spirit, mind, and body by…

When children fall behind in a content area or areas, there may not be sufficient time in the school day to offer the remedial instruction necessary to get them up to speed. One potential solution for making up this deficit is out-of-school time, or OST, programs. The "supplemental services" provision of the No Child Left Behind Act requires that…

Elaborates some of the communication techniques used in a reading laboratory for minority college students who have educational lags in their reading skills. The combination of improved classroom communication and effective reading practice have resulted in special success in reading achievement at the University of Portland, Portland, Oregon.…

Identifies stages in a child's life (particularly low-income children) at which he might be "disadvantaged" or "advantaged" in relation to certain influences in his life at that time, and argues that the child experiences the most critical influences before the school receives him.

Tutorial programs, curriculum revisions, recruitment drives, and other special assistance have stemmed from Califormia's Extended Opportunities Programs and Services for disadvantaged students. (Editor)

Facts about potential community college clienteles can be gathered locally by studying groups of young people who are underrepresented in college but who can be encouraged to enroll. (Editor)

Describes the methods of individualized instruction and teaching by example as effective tools in chemistry courses to bring disadvantaged students up to an acceptable level of competence. (CC)