This entire issue of an educational journal is devoted to teaching the disadvantaged. Following the introductory remarks by a senator from Indiana, there are articles on the needs of all children, the educational responsibility and sociopsychological factors specific to the disadvantaged, and two curriculum proposals. Also included are papers on…

Activities of the Library of Congress (LC), including the Copyright Office and the LC Trust Fund Board, are presented. The organizational structure of LC is presented, and the Network Development Office, the American Folklife Center, Federal Library Committee, Office of the General Counsel, and Management Policy Office are described in a report on…

The "special" quality of special education is the body of knowledge, skills, and attitudes which are used in the education and training of exceptional school children. In practice, these children have been those who public school systems could not or would not teach. The history of education for exceptional children is a simple story of massive…

The document is a collection of articles written by authors who are or have been work evaluators or closely associated with the process within a work evaluation rehabilitation facility. The papers are intended to broaden the scope of the available literature in the field of work evaluation. The articles include the following: The Professional in…

The handbook presents a series of implementation suggestions for vocational education special needs programs generally, and in Alabama. Special Needs Programs for Disadvantaged Students defines the term disadvantaged student and provides criteria for their identification, with form information. Special Needs Programs for Handicapped Students lists…

Consultations with 100 representative people from the Choctaw and Chitimacha schools and tribes and the Choctaw Agency constitute the basis of this formative evaluation, which is organized in terms of the following evaluation provinces: planning; curriculum; evaluation; special programs; support services; communication; personnel; and dormitories.…

Previous studies have reported that disadvantaged children tend to loose the skills and abilities they had acquired in special and/or intervention programs when they are placed in education settings which do not support their needs. Since the 1970 census data tended to indicate that the pupil composition of the schools had changed, it became…

This reference aid for legislators and legislative service agencies contains proposals for State and local legislation concerning governmental organization, finance, urban affairs, planning and zoning, health, education, and water and land resources. (LLR)

This report was prepared as a background paper for a national study of changes in the accessibility of higher education fromm l958 to l968. It out- lines four major barriers to higher education: the financial, the academic, the motivational, and the geographic. Efforts to reduce these barriers have included (1) the creation of junior colleges; (2)…

The final report of the Roberson Center Title III Project, establishing the Upper Susquehanna Regional Supplementary Educational Service Center, includes a complete description of the teaching activities, finances, organization and programs of the experimental project. The central purpose of the project was to provide, through various practical…

This study, part of a larger project, reports information on the number of non-Canadian born children in opportunity classes and in the special vocational schools by sex, showing the mother tongue of the pupils and the percentage of non-Canadian-born pupils in these classes as compared to the general school population. In addition to obtaining…

This document analyzes a select geographic portion of the total data collected for 'The Every Pupil Survey', a study conducted in the schools of Toronto, Canada. Tables included in the document describe the populations of the eight specific schools in comparison to that of the entire Toronto system. Data analysis indicates that: (1) the majority…

The document evaluated the first year (1972-73) of operation of the Indian Students' University Programme (ISUP) at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Early in 1972 a plan was developed with the Department of Indian Affairs whereby the University was to receive up to 50 non-matriculated American Indian students in September 1972.…

This report evaluates the 1970 Summer Enrichment Programs for the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. There were 35 programs with a very wide range of purposes, involving 21,555 students. These much needed programs for student achievement and enrichment could only have taken place during the summer. A few were exemplary programs, but some…

The paper describes a current research project now being conducted by the Experimental Manpower Laboratory at Mobilization for Youth (MFY-EML) in New York City. The overall objective of the MFY-EML is to develop and test new methods of teaching vocational skills to hard-to-employ youth. The MFY-EML is involved in developing a program to teach…