The Pyramids' Reading Program, with the Instructional Materials Center (IMC) and the Combine Component, operates in Minneapolis public and parochial Target Area elementary schools to help improve the reading skills of educationally disadvantaged children. The IMC writes, produces, and distributes the reading material used in the program, and the…

Program 10 of the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education is a broadly based program of research into the dynamics of the absorption of "new students," here defined as students who formerly did not continue their education beyond high school into post-secondary education. The program will attempt to develop answers to the following…

The primary objective of the Title I Reading Project was to improve the reading skills of sixth- and seventh-grade underachievers. Treatment consisted of individualized programs based upon diagnostic testing in reading. Project classes in nine and 11 schools at the sixth- and seventh-grade levels, respectively were evaluated. Selected pupils were…

There are many obstacles to assessing the impact of "new" or disadvantaged students enrolled in community colleges; minority students and staff often oppose such assessments, the conditions and problems in quantifying measurements are difficult to control, and it is difficult to separate and assess interrelated conditions and events…

This paper reports on the clinical and guidance component of a program designed to meet the needs of non-public school children in a New York City School District for the 1974-75 school year. In all, a total of 8,398 students from the non-public schools participated in the program. The evaluation of this program included: a) achievement measures…

Since July 1971, the Educational Testing Service has planned and conducted a study of compensatory reading programs in United States public schools. This volume reports the results of the 1972-1973 school-year study (phase two), which involved pre- and posttesting of all students in the second, fourth, and sixth grades of a subsample of the…

Selected results from a study of compensatory reading programs sponsored by Title I and by other sources are presented and discussed. Various phases of the study included a questionnaire survey of a nationally representative sample of elementary schools, pre- and posttesting of students in grades two, four, and six of a subsample of the original…

This report examines in detail the cost-estimating model developed for a study of reading-program costs, undertaken as part of a large-scale evaluation of compensatory reading programs. Results of the cost-analysis were presented in a separate report. Here, the confidence which can be placed in the cost-assessment model is evaluated in terms of…

This article notes some of the criticisms of government-funded compensatory education programs found in two recent reports: the Rand Report on Federal Programs and the Meissner Report on the status of New Jersey's state-funded remedial programs. (SJL)

The article examines characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of learning disabled adolescents from a clinical perspective. (PHR)

This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of a relatively short-term program of relaxation training in producing changes in elementary students in terms of attention-related skills associated with reading tasks in the classroom. Evaluation of change was measured by change in experimental variables and subjective evaluations of change.…

Examines conditions for the acquisition of the proportionality concept and attempts to improve the ability of remedial college students in an urban university to solve proportions. Specifically, the study was designed: (1) to observe the acquisition of the proportionality concept through training on the operations of group-structured tasks, and…

Presents a brief study of a cooperative program to improve reading skills. (TA)