This report is the sixth in a series of longitudinal studies describing the College Discovery and Development Program aimed at identifying disadvantaged and under achieving ninth graders and developing their college potential in five special high school development centers. The sixth year brought the completion of the discovery and development…

The admissions process to post secondary schooling is examined, and the complex of academic, financial, geographic, and motivational barriers to access that are currently being overcome are identified in this dissertation. The objectives are to analyze and discuss various topics and to use them to illuminate institutional policies and practices to…

The project surveyed former disadvantaged adult students of the Urban Educational Center (UEC) to determine their improvement economically and attitudinally and related these improvements to specific aspects of the UEC educational program. Improvement (as measured against a pretest) was surveyed in the following areas: attitude toward own ability,…

This document, an addendum to the Day Care Survey 1970, describes day care-related federal programs. Each program, is described briefly in terms of: the nature of the program, day care services provided, authorizing legislation, the administering agency, and miscellaneous information (funding, recipients, etc.). Types of programs included are: (1)…

Traditionally, local school boards have had the power to assign students to classes and to set standards for promotion and graduation; with this authority has gone the discretion to decide what role pupil testing will play in the local schools. Courts have been reluctant to interfere with school board decisions on methodology, of which they…

In order to assess the needs of women at Fresno City College (FCC), a questionnaire was distributed to 133 female day students during regular class sessions. Results showed that: (1) 87.2 percent were 18-24 years old; (2) 57.2 percent were White; (3) 77.8 percent were single; (4) over 60 percent needed information on careers, graduation…

Two hundred first grade children participated in an experimental program involving innovative curricula and instructional techniques. A pretest-posttest method of instruction, employing sequenced and structured learning activities, enabled each child to progress at an individual rate and was supplemented by a readiness program. Evaluation of 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 presentation assists educators, parents, and community leaders in determining how auxiliary personnel may best be utilized in public schools. It is suggested that the introduction of auxiliary personnel into a school system may provide more individualized education for children and youth, make possible a more flexible structure in the…

New tactics for teaching the disadvantaged must be developed which are significantly different from traditional approaches which have been used with advantaged children. Creative strategies in teaching must be developed which utilize sound teaching and learning theories and which, at the same time, are able to be continuously evaluated in a…

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 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…

A curriculum for use with disadvantaged students in grades 5-8 provides a variety of "hands-on" experiences through which students can explore the world of work as it existed during the Colonial period. Activities relate to food, clothing, communication, and tool production. They use a range of skills and abilities and can be performed…

Despite the overall economic gains in the 1990s, many young black men continue to have the poorest life chances of anyone in our society. Joblessness and low earnings among these less-educated young adults are contributing to reductions in marriage, increases in nonmarital childbearing, and a host of other social problems. In "Black Males…

This collection of papers examines the crisis in public education, focusing on poor and minority children. There are seven chapters in two parts. After "Introduction: Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations" (Michelle Fine and Lois Weis), Part 1, "Scenes of Silencing," includes: (1) "Silencing and Nurturing Voice…