The literature on retention of adult learners strongly suggests that previous educational attainment is closely tied to participation and persistence. Educationally disadvantaged adults are more likely to lack self-confidence and self-esteem, have negative attitudes toward education, and need mastery of basic skills such as literacy before…

Although there has been unquestionable progress in developing a Hispanic presence in higher education during the last 20 years, the situation facing the Hispanic community today is one of actual deterioration in educational gains. In reviewing the educational status of this group, it becomes evident that the issue of Hispanic postsecondary…

This booklet compiles five Congressional Acts for use by the House Committee on Education and Labor. The "Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981" provides for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to authorize grants to States to assist eligible households to meet the costs of home energy, up to the amount of $2,140,000,000…

The long-term sustained impact of the Saginaw School District Chapter I Supplemental Teacher Participation (STP) program on third grade students during the 1979-80 school year was examined. A total of 256 students were classified into one of four categories: 1 year, 2 year continuous, 3 year continuous, and 2 year interrupted. Two different…

This study further investigates the effectiveness of compensatory educational programs. Results indicate that a comprehensive enrichment program can reduce the wide gap in achievement skills between less capable students and their more capable peers. (Author)

Liberal arts teachers must serve culture as well as credentialism, so that open-admissions does not mean a lowering of standards. (JH)

Recent court decisions demand that handicapped children receive equal educational opportunities, and that proper facilities be provided. A special report provides an up-to-date picture of the problems and describes how some schools and colleges are providing proper facilities for handicapped students. (Author/MLF)

Two imaginary success-oriented high school boys, one lower class and one upper middle class, discuss their respective attitudes toward school, friends, college, career goals, parents' and society's expectations, and their perceptions of other social classes. (SF)

Article discussed federal legislation passed in the 1960's and the impetus it has given to a broadly directed curricular approach to Adult Basic Education aimed at improving the "whole" man. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the ways schools can influence learning processes in students. (RK)

Reports the findings of a study which investigated the effect of parental involvement in the school on student achievement in inner city elementary school classrooms. (SF)

Based on the argument that traditional college admissions standards comprise elements that are invalid predictors of significant contributions to society, the author discusses selected results of a study which measured college apllicants' non-academic activities and productive thinking capacity as possible predictors of success in college.…

The Secondary Education Through Health Program (SETH) offers a means by which minority and disadvantaged high school students may acquire experience and knowledge in the health field while completing their senior year. Each year, a group of students from New York City high schools is selected to participate in the program, held at the Mount Sinai…

The stated purpose of this discussion is to examine the rationale of the language cognitive deficit model used to describe the educationally disadvantaged black -- a model which assumes that Black English lacks the organization and logic characterizing Standard Spoken English -- and to argue that the model is irrelevant to both educational…

In order to try to explain the success of street academies, descriptions of such schools from both the popular and professional literature are used to develop an analysis of typical program characteristics; suggest less obvious possible reasons for success which are usually not cited and speculate on one global program characteristic that may be…