THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES INNER-CITY EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CIVIL RIGHTS, NEGRO OPPORTUNITY, AND NEGRO CITIZENSHIP. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT NEGROES ARE NOT AFFORDED AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN AN OPEN SOCIETY, AND THAT AS A RESULT THE NEGRO'S EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS ARE THWARTED. EFFECTS OF VARIOUS KINDS OF DEPRIVATION UPON THE…

OUTLINED ARE THE SURVEY PROCEDURES TO BE USED TO GATHER INFORMATION ON THE PRACTICES, PLANS, AND PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF DISADVANTAGED, MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN WITH THE AMERICAN HISTORY TAUGHT IN THE DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. GENERAL PRACTICES AS WELL AS SPECIFIC PROGRAMS AND MATERIALS WILL BE SURVEYED. THE SURVEY PROCEDURE IS…

STRADDLING TWO CULTURES, MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS ARE HAMPERED BY LANGUAGE BARRIERS AND IDENTITY PROBLEMS. THEIR SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT IS FURTHER HINDERED BY THE CULTURAL GAP WHICH EXISTS BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR ANGLO TEACHERS, AND BY THEIR CHARACTERISTIC NONCOMPETITIVE VALUES. MOREOVER, THE PATRIARCHAL, EXTENDED STRUCTURE OF THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN…

IN TWO SEPARATE ARTICLES, TWO VIEWS OF ABILITY GROUPING ARE DISCUSSED. THE FIRST MAINTAINS THAT FOR ECONOMIC REASONS TAX-SUPPORTED EDUCATION MUST GROUP STUDENTS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES, WHICH MAY BE DONE ACCORDING TO ABILITY OR TO AGE. ABILITY GROUPING IS DEFENSIBLE AS AN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE WHEN IT IS BASED ON MEASURABLE ACHIEVEMENT. ALL…

THE CRITICAL INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED YOUTH AND THE EVIDENCE THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF THESE YOUTH DID NOT MEET EVEN THE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR PEACETIME MILITARY SERVICE PROMPTED PRESIDENT KENNEDY, ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1963, TO CREATE THE TASK FORCE ON MANPOWER CONSERVATION, COMPOSED OF THE HEAD ADMINISTRATORS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF DEFENSE,…

The establishment of the Education Improvement Program in Durham, North Carolina, is described. The program includes a longitudinal Infant Evaluation Project at Duke Hopsital, a nursery program for two- and three-year olds, an integrated demonstration school, and a preschool for black five-year olds. Also involved are ungraded primaries in two…

Objectives of this study were to assess existing library resources, services, and needs in the Capitol Region of Connecticut and to recommend steps for future development. Study data were obtained from a questionnaire sent to all libraries in the region, from interviews with a cross section of individuals in many fields concerned with libraries,…

In a prekindergarten program in the economically disadvantaged area of Harlem, the teacher, curriculum, daily activities, behavior, school, and parents of the 15 enrolled children were studied. Evaluations emphasized the outcomes of learning rather than the social, emotional, and intellectual processes of learning. The following conclusions were…

A study was conducted to determine if the observed changes in Head Start children were related to the practice effects inherent in a test-retest situation. The "control" group consisted of 64 children who had been eligible for a Head Start program. They roughly matched a group of Head Start (HS) children in IQ scores, age, and…

A project was undertaken in 1965 in 3 elementary schools in Wayne County School District, Utah, to determine if students entering small, rural schools have cultural disadvantages and, if so, to develop materials and procedures to meet such deficiencies. Pretesting revealed significant differences in vocabulary development and experiential…

A short term preschool readiness program was designed in 1967 to employ nonpedagogically trained middle class mothers as teachers for preschool disadvantaged children. The children chosen for this study were 43 Mexican-Americans and five Negroes from lower class families. Three classrooms, consisting of 12 children and three mothers each, were…

This report is a brief discussion of the case histories of three preschool children who were participants in an "Exploratory Study of the Effects of Individual Work on the Functioning of Maladjusted Pre-School Children." This exploratory study was concerned with emotional-social learning and developed the hypothesis that certain desirable…

The effect of a formal, structured approach to language development on preschool children is the subject of this project study. From August 1965 to August 1966, 157 programs administered to 1,663 children explored mental ability, auditory and visual discrimination, language use, vocabulary, and motivation. Children attending day care centers,…

This manual for nonprofessional tutors in remedial reading programs outside of the established educational structure deals with specific techniques needed for teaching children, adolescents, and adults to read. It describes the problems of the student who comes for instruction and discusses the relationship between him and the tutor. It outlines…

Although this review of "Pygmalion in the Classroom," an experimental study of the effect of positive teacher expectations on the intellectual development of their disadvantaged students, generally affirms the findings of the experiment, it points out that (1) since the average improvement of the experimental elementary school children was…