The goals of the Opportunities Industrialization Center organization in Oklahoma City include providing hope for impoverished and hard-core unemployed in the form of job preparation by providing adult education, prevocational training, skills training, counseling, job development, placement and followup. Another primary goal of OIC is providing…

The Trowbridge House Geriatric Aide Program, performed at MDTA centers in Akron and Cleveland, Ohio, was developed to demonstrate whether the active and positive recruiting methods widely used by proprietary schools could be adapted to obtain more and better qualified disadvantaged persons for skills training; whether a high quality,…

This paper synthesizes the three substantive reports on ability grouping described in TM 000 501-503. It lists the characteristics of ability grouping as practised in American school systems. Extensive conclusions and recommendations, generally unfavorable to ability grouping are given. Alternative educational strategies for improvement of…

Contents include the following papers delivered at a conference focusing on communication and the child: Some Biologic and Social Aspects of Communicative Problems; Communication and Academic Achievement in Inner City Children; The Pediatric Generalist Looks at Defective Communication Skills; Reflections from a Special Educator; Approach of the…

The 110 research reports, papers, and other references written primarily during 1966-69 were reviewed under these categories: (1) Consumer Education, (2) Disadvantaged, (3) Homemaking, (4) Teacher Education, and (5) Research Methodology. Reasons for the lack of consumer education research may be that the renewed emphasis has taken place in the…

This document provides guidelines for administrators and teachers at the 37 Oklahoma Adult Learning Centers which deal with the educationally deprived and economically depressed population. The first section provides information on establishing programs, school board authorization, regulations (State and Federal), and financing. The next section…

The ten articles in this book examine the causes and remedies for the apparent communication barrier between the urban poor and the rest of the nation. The articles, written by journalists, businessmen, and community leaders--both black and white, range from a broad based description of the communications behaviors of the urban poor, to attempts…

The 3 essays on migrants in this study draw upon a survey of 181 migrants from 12 crews and of the crew leaders and growers associated with these crews, a small survey of an agricultural community, field notes of 16 undergraduate students who lived and worked in 14 migrant labor camps for 5 to 10 weeks, and interviews by 8 additional students with…

This report presents the proceedings of a 4-day institute attended by 82 individuals representing university personnel, state department of education personnel, and local school district personnel. Conducted in response to critical problems in vocational teacher education, the institute focused on ways to locate and prepare adequate numbers of…

This list is reprinted from "Education of the Disadvantaged Children" (ED 011 898). Originally compiled as of July 1, 1966, it was updated through August 15, 1966. This list includes books which: (1) have survived a nongovernmental, critical reviewing process, (2) are satisfying to basic needs of childhood, (3) are concerned with the specific…

Instituted as part of "Avenues Unlimited" (The Tower Hamlets Youth Project), a community development approach to youth services was attempted in the cosmopolitan inner city slum district of Spitalfields, East London. Efforts began in 1966 with a clean up campaign, a neighborhood club for parents and youth, and other activities by the…

Three basic questions concerning preschool education are discussed using information derived from research in early childhood education through 1963-1971. The questions are: (1) Does preschool education make a difference in later school performance of disadvantaged children? (2) If preschool education does make a difference, does it matter which…

An experimental program in mathematics at a high school in Watts, California, demonstrated that multilevel team teaching and individualized instruction produced significantly higher student achievement in computational skills than did traditional methods, and at no increase in cost. The program was developed to improve the basic mathematics skills…

This research was designed to serve two major purposes: (1) to create a substantial library of theoretically neutral observational data as permanent documentation of actual life experiences in the lives of 3-year-old children from different socioeconomic backgrounds and (2) to analyze specimen records in order (a) to describe and quantify the…

This study compares three methods of intervention conducted over 2 1/2 years to promote cognitive development and competency of disadvantaged young children. Subjects were about 80 black mother-child-younger sibling triads, divided into three groups (and matched with comparison groups): (1) Maximum Impact, a training program for the target child…