Swedish children, who receive extensive readiness activities in their first months in school, are taught through a diagnostic approach which involves observation, diagnosis, and treatment of difficulty by the classroom teacher. Results of a 6-year longitudinal study of the system revealed (1) the degree of success achieved by a program of remedial…

The main objective of the New York City Corrective Reading Project, funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title 1, was the improvement of reading competence in students with reading retardation of one year or more in grades 1-4, or with retardations of two years or more in grades 5-8. The program was implemented in 171 non-public…

This volume contains the major presentations of two conferences on the theme: "Low Achievers in Mathematics and Title 1, ESEA" attended by mathematics educators in New York State. Melvin Mendelsohn summarizes "Activities of the Bureau of Mathematics Education Related to Title I, ESEA". "Cognition and Learning Style of the…

This report covers the use of the Job Corps Graded Reading Program at Phillips Junior High in 1971-72, the third year the materials were used. A major goal of this program was to raise the level of reading underachievers to a level of competency. Gates-MacGinitie vocabulary and comprehension tests were used as standardized measures of achievement.…

The Special Services Project, designed to provide a multidimensional support program for disadvantaged college freshmen, is described. The program is designed to provide for the identification of appropriate students, their strong support during their freshman year, and the opportunity for students to return to the program in areas of individual…

A study of the performance pattern of 1,000 elementary school children in Philadelphia was conducted to determine: (a) whether the inclusive Title I program was having a significant impact on reading achievement, and (b) whether the specific intervention models were producing significant changes in the performance rates of their respective groups.…

Work Unit REALISTIC was undertaken by the Human Resources Research Organization to provide information concerning demands for reading, listening, and arithmetic skills in selected military occupational specialties and to provide information relevant to the matching of personnel literacy skills to job demands for such skils. This report describes…

The project, comprising five specific components, was based on the rationale that trained personnel, making a concentrated effort to correct reading deficiencies in content areas, as well as remedial situations, will increase student achievement and provide teachers the means to assist students to significantly reduce reading difficulties. The…

School districts in New York State have been engaged in developing E.S.E.A. Title I projects since 1965. This document represents an attempt to formulate some aspects of this experience in a form useful for project directors. The content of this report is based on the recorded experiences of one school district during the summer of 1970 in running…

In 1963, the National Child Labor Committee established the National Committee on the Education of Migrant Children (NCEMC) to give new impetus to its work with these children. The over 300,000 migrant children suffered from educational deprivation in the home, inadequate health care, poor housing, and a lack of desirable learning situations.…

In the 1970-71 school year, 24 of the 28 local school districts in New York City submitting proposals for the organization of projects to be funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 had provided for some degree of non-public participation in a total of 53 separate projects. The evaluation reported here is limited…

This after-school remedial reading program is designed to make it possible for people without extensive training to improve the reading skills of community children. Competencies to be achieved, criterion behaviors for instructors, criterion behaviors for children, and instructional materials are outlined. Suggestions are included for budget…

This paper describes an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title IV program designed to improve the reading achievement levels of kindergarten through second-grade pupils in Wakulla County, Florida. The Multisensory Approach to Reading and Reading Readiness Curriculum (Project MARC) combined structured teaching techniques and materials with…

Presented is an evaluation of a program providing physically handicapped and mentally retarded children (4-21 years old) in 19 special educational facilities in New York City with an intensive remedial program in reading and mathematics. The program, involving instruction by paraprofessionals of a minimum of 1/2 to 1 hour each week for a total of…

Presented is an evaluation of a program providing mentally retarded students in two occupational training centers who were two or more years retarded in reading and/or mathematics with individual or small-group instruction supplementing the basic program. It is noted that 110 participants were given 2 hours, 15 minutes a week instructional time by…