Upward Bound was a precollege program geared for high school students with potential who had been handicapped by economic, cultural, and educational deprivation. It involved a full-time summer program and follow-up programs (counseling, cultural activities, and physical education) during the academic year. Students stayed in the program for three…

Introduced by background information on all exceptionalities, the educational guide presents a general curriculum for use with the educable mentally retarded on a beginning and intermediate level. Areas of concern are language arts, arithmetic skills, social skills, and vocational information. The guide presents suggestions for games, specific…

This paper reports part of a longitudinal study to assess the psycholinguistic abilities of rural children given various educational opportunities. Twenty-two kindergartens were established, each with a teacher and a teacher aide. Prior to the opening of school, the staff was exposed to a six-week intensive training session. An inservice training…

The University of Victoria and the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs sponsored a 4-week prekindergarten, preschool, and orientation program for Indian children living on 4 reserves in the southern region of Vancouver Island. The 3 groups of children served were 4- and 5-year-olds (prekindergarten), 5- and 6-year-olds (preschool), and 7-…

Intended for juniors and seniors in high school, college students who have not made career decisions, and others, the booklet provides information on careers in special education. The kinds of children involved, ways in which they can be helped, professional preparation, job opportunities, and ways to find out more about the field are described…

The College Entrance Examination Board's volume, "12,000 Students and Their English Teachers" (see ED 023 661), offers sample units that form a "sensible" and "imaginative" approach to teaching English. The language and composition sections present activities for teaching writing that range from basic standard exercises to an examination of…

The participants in this conference (A.V. Cicourel, I. Deutscher, S. Ervin-Tripp, J. Gumperz, D. Hymes, E. Sibley, H. Phillips, and R.B. Anderson) discussed the processes involved in eliciting verbal information, especially in cross-cultural studies. The four principal topics of their discussions were: (1) the ethnography of asking questions, (2)…

A two-year investigation into the development of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) for the improvement of undergraduate training in statistics was undertaken. The first year was largely devoted to designing PLANIT (Programming LANguage for Interactive Teaching) which reduces, or completely eliminates, the need an author of CAI lessons would…

This paper reports on one high school's experience with a project to teach students how to program and solve problems in mathematics using a computer. Part I is intended as a general guide for any high school administrator or mathematics instructor who is interested in exploring the installation of a computer terminal in his high school and wants…

Reported are the results of a 20-day highly concentrated program of teaching mathematics, language arts, and human relations to disadvantaged fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students in Houston, Texas. This follow-up study is based on a sample of 80 students from the original group of 200. Findings show that: (1) there were no significant…

In a progress report of the Arizona Adult Basic Education Data Processing System, the following are presented: (1) the terms of the original contract; (2) the plans for the second year; (3) the method used; (4) information secured; (5) evaluation information obtained; (6) plans for the future. The program aims at identifying, adapting, and coding…

A consortium program for Advanced Study in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages, funded by the U.S. Office of Education and sponsored by the N.Y. Board of Education in cooperation with the Research Foundation of City University of New York, was held in the summer of 1968 in four local colleges: (1) Brooklyn College of City…

A specially designed questionnaire was given to teenage urban Indians at a dance held for them in Minneapolis to determine the number who were "College Aspirants" (CA) or "Non-College Aspirants" (NCA) along with their preferences and characteristics. It was found that out of 135 usable responses, 95 were interested in attending…

The teacher can sucessfully present Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" to 11th- and 12th-grade students by concentrating on "The Prologue" and one of the tales--e.g., "The Pardoner's Tale." The structure and plan of the entire work, however, should first be considered before its various parts can be fully understood.…

This is an annotated bibliography of books, pamphlets, and adult basic educational materials currently available in the DHEW Region VIII Adult Basic Education Library. It is organized by subject matter categories; the instructional materials in the last section are organized by publishers. Among areas included are administration, adult learning,…