Excerpts from text of address at 1971 annual meeting of the American Vocational Association. (Editor/MU)

In the best interest of all concerned, exceptional children should be educated with the average as early as is feasible. To achieve these ends all teachers will have to learn to cope with children's disabilities. (AF)

A review of a report prepared under a Carnegie grant to the National Indian Youth Council. Reprinted from "Carnegie Quarterly v17 n2 Spr 1969. (SW)

Description of a program designed to aid the Alaskan Native to develop the confidence and competence needed to interact on an equal basis with his non-Native peers. Paper presented for the Intercultural Communication Conference sponsored by the National Society for the Study of Communication at the Speech Association of America Convention, Los…

Excerpts from speech given at Convention of the Associated Equipment Distributors, Jan 1969.

When colleges and universities provide academic assistance, adequate counseling, and ample financial aid, open admissions students overcome initial academic deficiencies and successfully progress towards graduation. (MM)

Contends that the political philosophy underlying Mina Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" is one which reinforces both the teacher's position of control and the training of minority students to follow and obey authority. (DD)

The Stevens Technical Enrichment Program (STEP) is described. STEP offers a pre-engineering component, an undergraduate program, and special projects. (BB)

Describes techniques for motivating "new students," many of whom are economically, socially, and academically disadvantaged, and for improving their literacy skills.

Community-based and work-based learning projects to promote lifelong learning for marginalized British adults were compared on the following criteria: target audience, outreach, meeting new learners' needs, student development, sustainability, and generalizability. Systematic analysis showed the projects were more complex than a stereotypical…

Argues that a perpetual cycle of education deprivation is embedded in our educational system that forces some of the best students into a vocational education path that may not include attending college. Proposes that students must be educated early about the value of a college education and must be aware that they are making decisions with…

In nineteenth-century Britain, adult education for the working classes was provided by Sunday schools, working men's colleges, university extension, and mechanics' institutes. Similar efforts in colonial Australia laid the foundation for twentieth-century adult education initiatives. (SK)

Responds to Levenstein's criticism of Scarr and McCartney's independent evaluation of Levenstein's Mother-Child Home Program. It is claimed that experimental evaluations of intervention programs are often more critical than nonexperimental ones. (RJC)

The study, with 57 children (ages 3-6) enrolled in 3 Head Start classes, demonstrated that short-term, large-group basic concept instruction combining direct instruction with interactive and incidental teaching techniques resulted in significantly improved scores on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts-Revised. (Author/DB)