This study concerns a demonstration enrichment program for intervening into the ways of thinking, learning, and behaving displayed by urban ghetto children in Harlem public schools. The study focuses on the implications of ongoing research by the Institute for Developmental Studies (IDS) for the further understanding of the independent behavior of…

The final volume of this 4-volume report contains further selections from "Anthropological Perspectives on Education," a monograph to be published by Basic Books of New York. (Other selections are in Vol. III, SP 003 902.) Monograph selections appearing in this volume are: "Great Tradition, Little Tradition, and Formal…

The first volume of a collection contains 19 articles on the disadvantaged child. There are chapters on child rearing patterns, mental retardation, schools serving disadvantaged students, Northern urban education, adjustment problems, and assessment of potential. Also included are papers dealing with education and/or compensatory programs, teacher…

The primary focus was on the impact of vocational programs on educational achievement, job training, and job placement of disadvantaged youth. Procedures were developed to insure coverage of all major categories of the disadvantaged, all major areas of vocational education, pre-vocational programs, comprehensive regional coverage, and private as…

The proceedings of a 1968 interagency conference concerned with the educational needs of the disadvantaged are presented. The three keynote addresses dealt with the characteristics of the educationally deprived, the role of the state government in the education of the deprived, and Federal-state relations in meeting their needs. Educational…

A 1967 evaluation of New York City's Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) educational enrichment program presents the objectives and the methods of implementation of the Board of Education and the local community agencies which administered the project. Criticized are the diversity of the program objectives, the lack of provision for a specified…

Major speeches and reports of workshop sessions at a seminar attended by 90 state and city vocational education directors, U.S. Office of Education personnel, and city school superintendents are presented. The major purposes of the seminar were: (1) to identify and analyze problems confronting vocational education related to effectiveness of…

A recent study of 30 urban teachers showed that they were not only unable to give a precise description of their students' speech, but had no idea of how to go about making a description. Their ideas on vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation were formed by popular folk-lore rather than linguistic knowledge. Current teacher training programs are…

Nine conference papers consider the application of knowledge and methods known to special education to the instruction of disadvantaged children. Edmund W. Gordon views the disadvantaged population; Frank B. Wilderson discusses behavior disorders in children from deprived backgrounds; Harriet Green Kopp describes problems of perception and…

The 1967-68 mental health services (MHS) program in the Pittsburgh public school system, number of children served, studies undertaken, and other staff activities are considered. A research study of perceptual-motor dysfunction among emotionally disturbed, educable mentally handicapped, and normal children, and two perceptual surveys developed for…

Included are papers, some in abridged or abstract form, on the following areas: 15 on the gifted; seven each on mental retardation and on information services; five each on the disadvantaged, teacher education, and general concerns; four on behavioral disorders; three each on visual impairment, learning disabilities, the homebound and…

This manual is written to provide an overview of the Federal programs which are available at the local level and to aid school administrators in locating particular Federal programs that will fulfill specific educational needs. The guide is designed for use as a tool in planning and programing a comprehensive educational program, rather than as a…

Schools have been encouraged by recent legislation to develop vocational programs for all students interested in any phase of agriculture. In 1968, a total of 524,775 high school students were enrolled; 26 percent were engaged in off-farm agricultural education programs. The 12,000 teachers of these students also conducted programs for…

Concerned with mental retardation as a social product, the following topics are discussed: mental retardation as a social phenomenon, the concept of the retarded as surplus population, labeling and incompetence in relation to life chances, mental retardation as deviance and as incompetence, and findings on the prevalence of retardation in the…

This book consists of a selection from the articles, addresses and documents that have been published in the magazine "Integrated Education," comprising fifty items appearing between April, 1963 and September, 1967. The items are arranged in six sections. Part One is devoted to the general problem of educational deprivation, and to the question of…