Twelve sixth grade classes were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group. Experimental group one contained three classes which received 27 cloze lessons containing a systematic deletion count of every tenth word. Experimental group two contained three classes which received 27 cloze lessons with an every tenth word deletion…

Test-based funding (TBF) is the concept that allocations of educational funds from one political unit to another should be larger as the proportion of pupils in the receiving unit tho have low test scores is larger. The arguments offered in support of TBF are presented. The most serious acknowledged drawback to TBF is its potential disincentive…

The document presents the beginnings of a data base for educational policy and program planning at Northern Illinois University regarding the Spanish-origin population of its service area, and was compiled from numerous surveys conducted by various agencies, groups, and individuals. The quantitative description of the Spanish speaking presented…

The document presents a report of the conference "Access to Continuing Education," held at Oxford University, July 1-3, 1975. It is based upon a reading of documents provided to conference participants; on interviews and conversations with a number of participants, organizers, and attendants at the conference; and a review of documents…

The principal purposes of the preparation program at North Central Technical Institute (NCTI), Wausau, Wisconsin, were to provide opportunities for certain students to further their general academic development and to explore various vocational fields. Students intended for the preparatory program were those identified by their high school records…

This report is based upon one component of an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I project in the Lenoir County, North Carolina, public schools for the 1973-74 school term. Programed Tutoring was developed as a supplement to classroom teaching. The three basic skills of reading (sight reading, word analysis, and comprehension) are broken…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the developmental education program of the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College. An evaluative model was constructed by accepting the performance standards and program guidelines that Roueche and Kirk listed in "Catching Up; Remedial Education" (1973), after their study of five successful…

This annotated bibliography is the seventh in the Doctoral Research Series. It encompasses doctoral research on "Special Secondary School Programs for the Disadvantaged" reported in "Dissertation Abstracts International" from 1965 through June 1973. The citations are arranged in the following categories: College Preparatory…

There are increasing numbers of nontraditional students with atypical learning problems, life styles, and ambitions appearing in the academic establishment, and the number is likely to grow during the next five years. Studies consistently confirm the success of treating the nontraditional student and thereby bringing about desired and desirable…

An experimental program was designed to provide junior students majoring in elementary education with an opportunity to be vitally involved in a rural ghetto school for 3 days a week, implementing and testing the theories and methods taught in on-campus classes on the remaining 2 days of the week. The school, with a majority of black students, was…

Conducted in Greater Tampa, Florida, from July 1966 through July 1968, this project was an effort to help unemployed or underemployed high school graduates aged 17-25 to acquire or upgrade work skills. Shorthand and typing courses, the Communications Clinic, and other curriculum elements were designed to correct deficiencies in basic educational…

In this program report, students from Workshop Way (WW) classrooms were compared with students who were not in the program to discover if WW students were progressing faster in academic and social development. The WW program operated in disadvantaged areas; it combined a special organizational plan of the social and physical features of a…

Due to the tremendous energies and resources focused on bringing about acceptable educational changes in the Appalachian region, it must be assumed that numerous planning processes have been or will be brought into play prior to the accomplishment of such ambitious goals. Educational planners must be thorough and at the same time practical when…

Summarized are the various educational efforts for disadvantaged students in the Los Angeles, California, school system as of 1963. The information is presented under the headings of elementary, secondary, and adult schools, and other special services, projects, and programs. (NH)

The language patterns of low socioeconomic Negro, Spanish-surname, and Anglo children are sufficiently different from the middle class language patterns used in schools to put these children at a distinct educational disadvantage. By comparing the speech patterns of these children, this study sought to determine whether their language development…