The concern of this investigation lies with the development and estimation of models explaining children's intellectual variability. Specifically, attention is directed to: (a) the role of parental status attainments and family environments in the transmission of intellectual advantage-disadvantage across generations; (b) the possibility that…

Today there is no more critical manpower management issue for employers than adequate staffing practices with regard to three large, and sometimes overlapping, groups: minorities, the disadvantaged, and females. The amount of material dealing with this topic is staggering. Within the personnel field itself, the issues change when questions about…

This report presents the evaluation of the Worcester Operation Reading Base (ORB) Program which operated during 1971-1972, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. The ORB Program was designed to provide small group remedial reading instruction to students in the target area schools of Worcester. Evaluation of the…

In the past year, the Alabama project has tried to find methods for linking the services of adult education and libraries with a total of approximately 400 adults in designated areas of Birmingham and Jefferson Counties. Specific objectives included the coordination of services, community agency referral, recruitment, feedback on utilization of…

A computer-assisted instructional system has been implemented in 21 elementary schools in Chicago. The system runs on a UNIVAC 418-III computer which processes concurrently the reading, language arts, and mathematics drill and practice strand programs of the Computer Curriculum Corporation. All students participating qualified under the Elementary…

This document is a first year report on a project which examines the effectiveness of (1) teaching the mother versus teaching the infant, and (2) using a professional versus using a paraprofessional as the intervening agent. Also being studied is the relationship between the sex of the infant and the way he is taught and the effectiveness of…

Approximately 258 mothers and their children (aged 3 months to 3 years) participated in a home visit program using paraprofessionals as home visitors on a once-a-week basis in the first two years of life, combined with a small-group setting for four hours a week for children 2 to 3 years old. Findings indicate that such a Home Learning Center…

This case study of New Haven's Residential Youth Center (RYC) dramatizes the need for an alliance between social activists and the clinician in the arena of community action. A neighborhood-based, self-helf center oriented for "hard-core" inner-city youths, the RYC was funded in 1966 as an experimental and demonstration program by U.S.…

This document is part of a kit entitled Title I in your community, which has been redesigned to include new information about Title I and to disseminate the experiences of parent groups who have been working on Title I problems. This kit includes sample forms which can be used by parent and community groups to monitor the use of Title I funds. The…

The 32nd annual American Industrial Arts Association (AIAA) Convention was held in Louisville in 1970. Topics for the AIAA general session addresses were: (1) "Industrial Arts--The Blender Between Social Form and Technical Function," (2) "Technology and Society: Present and Future Challenges," (3) "A Student-Oriented Industrial Arts," (4) "Man:…

The goals of the OIC organization in Little Rock include providing hope for impoverished and hard-core unemployed in the form of job preparation by providing adult education, pre-vocational training, skills training, counseling, job development, placement and followup. Another primary goal of OIC is providing and emphasizing minority group…

The process of education will be fully understood only by studying it as a process, as a few anthropologists and sociologists have begun to do. The problems of inner city education need more such studies, especially longitudinal investigations of the processes by which exceptional teachers and schools succeed in the education of impoverished…

A 2-day conference jointly sponsored by the American Home Economics Association and the American Vocational Association was attended by approximately 400 home economists who sought to determine new directions for vocational home economics. Some presentations were: (1) -The Cooperative Role of AHEA" by D. Hanson, (2) "Vocational Home Economics in…

For millions of Americans, hunger is an everyday fact of life. Hunger destroys a man physically and mentally so that he is incapable of achieving a meaningful and productive place in society. Although many politicians and laymen state that the poor and hungry are shiftless and lazy, and that feeding them will destroy their self-reliance, a recent…

This report was developed in response to a request from the Chairman of the General Subcommittee on Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor for use in hearings on revisions of the 1968 Amendments to the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Background information regarding the distribution of the population in…