A battery of tests, designed expressly for use in assessment of disadvantaged adolescents enrolled in youth-work training programs, was validated predictively against both short-term (program completion) and longer-term (post-program) behavioral outcome dimensions. Measures of the battery displayed their best validities with such longer-term…

The Proceedings, attended by more than 400 technical educators from 42 States and two foreign countries, reflected various topics and information relative to the Clinic's theme. The speeches should assist technical educators and administrators at all post-secondary levels in the preparation of future manpower needs in technical education. The…

It is the intent of this Master's Thesis to describe the nonstandard morphology and syntax of a representative sample of children in the Norfolk City schools. The description is organized according to the linguistic patterning of nonstandard English features and their social and ethnic distribution. The speech of both white and Negro children is…

This report presents an analysis of Illinois' present educational finance system and makes recommendations for future legislation to improve the system. The report discusses (1) State constitutional provisions, (2) the present tax structure and alternative taxing methods, (3) proposed distribution formulas and equalization methods, (4) financing…

This report presents objectives, activities, and results of the three Appalachian Right to Read Community Based Centers from May, 1972 to August, 1973. The primary function of the Centers has been to demonstrate direct home instruction, by paraprofessionals, of individually prescribed reading instruction to isolated rural Appalachian adults and…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of method of presentation, grade level, sex, and achievement within grade and sex to the various bases upon which children of low socioeconomic background classify geometric concepts. Two tasks were administered to 96 subjects in the fifth, eighth, and eleventh grades--32 at each grade…

This compensatory education program serves approximately 792 disadvantaged children. Thirteen elementary school enrichment learning centers, two tenth grade tutoring programs, an area-wide remedial reading clinic, an instructional service center, and intensive teacher-parent inservice training will be the framework for enrichment experiences.…

The present study was undertaken to investigate the interplay of motivation, socio-emotional interactions between the child and his educators in the impact of early educational intervention on the later development of disadvantaged children. The study attempted to concentrate on obtaining a broad spectrum of the child's functioning and changes in…

Research on the differences in motivation to achieve in school among 10 groups of four-year-olds utilized a new, 75-item objective projective test called Gumpgookies. This test was individually administered to approximately 2000 children mainly from low economic backgrounds. The various ethnic and religious groups were compared with respect to…

This brochure is designed for elementary school administrators, and reports some of the administrative problems and responsibilities involved in the operation of programs focused on the disadvantaged, briefly points up the nature and extent of the elementary school problem, and summarizes the efforts of school systems to cope with it. The brochure…

This paper discusses and compares bidialectalism and various types of bilingualism, and the educational considerations presented by each. Stable bilingualism can result when each language is used by most, if not all, members of the community for different purposes. In a bilingual situation, societal factors are frequently such that no agreement…

This appendix to the National Program on Early Childhood Education (NPECE) Survey contains materials intended to provide additional information about six of the nine programs described in the survey. The materials include: (1) narrative descriptions of cooking and reading experiences for the Tucson Early Education Model; (2) information on…

This paper addresses the state of the law of equal educational opportunity. Among the laws, acts, and statutes addressed are the following: the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the implementation of school desegregation in the North and South, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Educational…

Tables of the Reagan Administration's 1988 fiscal budget show breakdown data on student assistance, graduate support, institutional assistance, education for the handicapped, aid to disadvantaged, education research and statistics, bilingual education, library resources, scientific research, health research and professions, arts and humanities,…

Research was centered on "at risk" students enrolled in an Academy that was designed to specifically meet "at risk" student needs. Teacher response styles during the discipline process was the center of the research given that "at risk" students are suspended more frequently than students typically falling into the "regular" student population.…