AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF FUNCTIONAL ILLITERACY, AND AN EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM WERE CONDUCTED. IN MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA THE SAMPLE SELECTION CONSISTED OF APPROXIMATELY 650 NEGRO AND 10 WHITE ILLITERATES FROM A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY. DATA WERE GATHERED THROUGH INTERVIEWS, QUESTIONNAIRES, TESTS, AND RATING TECHNIQUES. DATA…

This report discusses the fourth year of a remedial reading program for disadvantaged second-through-fourth-grade pupils. Separate sections deal with program goals and objectives; selection of participants; reading resource centers; measurement and analysis of reading achievement, self-concept attitudes toward reading, attendance, and parental…

The objectives of minority studies programs are similar to those of general education. Aside from its cultural-transmission function, minority studies has two missions connected with learning: the development of cognitive and affective skills; and maintenance of the essence of ethnic content, even when it is offered in separated autonomous…

Schools are still programatically preparing children of different castes for different adult worlds. Black children often enter school with attitudes and skills which may be in conflict with those required for the middle-class type of school success. Schools often reinforce these conflicts and doubts in subtle ways. (Author/EB)

This paper presents a case study of a skills development program for so-called high-risk students. The "Systems Approach to Learning Resources" summer course stressed analytical and verbal skills development, while serving a complementary and integrative role with the other summer courses. (Author)

Problems encountered in large-scale educational evaluations are discussed using the evaluation of the Emergency School Aid Act as an example. This extensive article focuses primarily on methodological issues. (JKS)

The author argues that some of the modernization strategies undertaken in the less developed countries (LDCs), particularly those pertaining to literacy and "conscientization" programs, might be applied profitably to alleviating the plight of the poor and powerless in underdeveloped areas within the United States. (Author)

The Newcastle project, "New Opportunities for Women," tests the feasibility of group admission for women who prefer to apply and study as a group at the Open University. Characteristics and achievement of 18 such women are described. (LBH)

Impediments to educational change were identified in six case studies of major innovative efforts in school systems. Their theoretical and policy implications are examined. The findings suggest the need for a reformulation of the theoretical scheme most frequently used to account for the fate of organizational innovations: overcoming resistance to…

Due to the diversity of compensatory education programs and to disparities in their goals and administration, it is difficult to evaluate their effectiveness. Educational reformers are faced with a political dilemma generated by their inability to show that schools and programs have a positive impact on target students. (Author/GC)

New ways for teaching educationally disadvantaged students are described by a licensed psychologist. The trend involves more emphasis upon the establishment of affective relationships between students and teacher and between students themselves. Approaches for focusing on the student's affective domain are discussed. (LBH)

Underprepared students deserve targeted instruction and practical content to develop communication skills. To implement a narrow, traditional approach in teaching these skills would be shortsighted and ultimately disastrous. (Author/LBH)

Sociometric differences between mainstreamed mildly handicapped and nonhandicapped Black and White students were investigated in a factorial design by using three indexes of peer acceptance. Results indicated differential patterns of peer acceptance. There were no main effects for race or sex; there was a significant multivariate Sample x Race…

Examines a 1985 Reagan Administration proposal to authorize the provision of Chapter 1 assistance to disadvantaged children in the form of educational vouchers. Provides background information, summarizes and analyzes the Administration's previous and current proposals, discusses pro and con agreements, and presents two alternatives to the voucher…

Identifies six types of developmental studies students: those who made educational decisions adversely affecting their academic future; adult learners; students whose academic weaknesses were ignored; foreign students; handicapped students; and students with weak academic commitments. Suggests that developmental programs represent the only avenue…