This report describes, evaluates and makes recommendations for the following programs: reading improvement, team teaching, counseling and tutoring, Head Start follow-through, mental health, after school study, pre-entry orientation for diagnostic and adjustment purposes, teacher-aide activity, school-community aides work study, remedial education…

Participants in this survey were 33 countries from various continents, all members of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. In the document, education wastage in the elementary school is divided into 3 main components: (1) nonattendance, (2) repetition of grade, and (3) withdrawal from the school cycle. Year-grade…

Appraised objectively in this article is a 3-year research project that involved experimentation with audiolingual methods in teaching standard English in Freshman English classes at Chaflin College in South Carolina to Negro students who spoke a nonstandard dialect. Prior to a discussion of the effectiveness of using spelling instruction to teach…

The major objectives of the research reported here were: to develop a phonological analysis to be used in determining the basic language problems of disadvantaged Spanish-speaking children; to develop an effective test for assessing the oral English of these children that could be used by a classroom teacher after only a brief training period; and…

The Office of Education Cost Effectiveness model (OECE), developed in this project to be computer programed in a time-sharing computer language, enabled educators to compare proposals for compensatory education and to examine the long-range results of proposed and existing programs. It is based on two main hypotheses--bolstered by a number of…

This book reports a study of learning and socialization in typically urban schools characterized by didactic teaching, minimal exploration and initiation by the children, little probing for personal or intellectual meaning, and strong adherence to established curriculum and external symbols of success. The child population includes low-income…

The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…

The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…

The Porter Elementary School in Syracuse, New York introduced individually prescribed instruction (IPI) for its kindergarten through 6th grade pupils, most of whom came from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Student individual differences relating to social background physical and personality development, intellectual capacity, and school…

Since 1967 the Appalachian Adult Education Center in cooperation with thirteen State departments of education has established several adult learning centers to provide services to the hard-core educationally disadvantaged and to test one specific method of operation to meet individual needs most effectively. Through this document, an attempt is…

The definition of instructional technology used in this bibliography is based on the definition used by the report of the Commission on Instructional Technology, "To Improve Learning." Instructional Technology in this sense is not confined to the use of specific media, but also includes systematic approaches to the use of human and…

The 23 supplementary educational programs for children of migrant workers in North Carolina are evaluated in this report covering programs operant during the summer of 1971. Eleven objectives are listed under instructional and supportive services. Preservice conferences and training, and postservice evaluation methods are emphasized. In the state…

This evaluation attempts to measure the extent and effectiveness of ESEA Title I programs designed to meet the needs of disadvantaged children and apprizes the public and the legislature of program outcomes. In keeping with USOE requirements for evaluating Title I programs, this document is constructed of (1) responses to USOE probes by…

To reemphasize the dangers inherent in the misuse of testing instruments, a study of language and cognitive development in poverty preschoolers investigated 1) whether the interpretation of Peabody scores could be applied to this population, and 2) the contribution of the linguistic form of the Peabody to performance. (MS)

This federally funded exemplary project in vocational education for an Appalachian county in West Virginia focused on developmental career planning for disadvantaged students in nine county high schools. Specifically concentrating on an integrated vocational curriculum for Grades 9 and 10, teacher-developed units were designed to orient Grade 9…