THIS REPORT BRIEFLY REVIEWS TRENDS IN 20TH-CENTURY RESEARCH ON EDUCATING DISADVANTAGED AND MINORITY GROUP PUPILS. MANY STUDIES WRITTEN IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S INDICATED THAT NEGROES WERE LESS INTELLIGENT THAN CAUCASIANS, AND THUS TEACHERS DEMANDED LITTLE OF THEIR MINORITY GROUP PUPILS. SINCE THAT TIME RESEARCH STUDIES HAVE EMPHASIZED THE…

DESCRIBED IS THE USE OF AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS IN PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK CITY, MILWAUKEE, SAN DIEGO, DETROIT, AND CHICAGO. THE PROGRAMS OFFER INSTRUCTION IN SUCH AREAS AS LANGUAGE SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT, READING, CULTURAL ENRICHMENT, DRIVER EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION, AND JOB TRAINING. SOME OF THESE CITIES HAVE DEVELOPED AUDIOVISUAL…

THIS REPORT PRESENTS A DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPACT OF THE SUMMER 1965 HEAD START PROGRAM IN GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ON GROUPS OF PERSONS HAVING SOME CONTACT WITH IT. THE REPORT DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO ASSESS THE EFFECT THE PROGRAM HAD ON THE CHILDREN PARTICIPATING IN IT. INITIAL SECTIONS OF THE REPORT PROVIDE AN INTRODUCTION, DESCRIBE THE PLANNING OF THE…

A THIRD AND FINAL PHASE OF A THREE-PHASE PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE PROGRAM WAS COMPLETED DURING THE SUMMER OF 1967. THIS "CHILD STUDY" SERVICE WAS CARRIED OUT IN THE HEAD START CENTERS OF THE DELTA REGION OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE CHILDREN ATTENDING THE HEAD START PROGRAM WERE ABOUT EQUALLY REPRESENTED BY CAUCASIANS AND NEGROES. AN AVERAGE…

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL EVALUATION AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN FIVE MAJOR CITIES CONDUCTED SURVEYS TO INVESTIGATE PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY INSTRUCTION. IT WAS FELT THAT THE LACK OF IDENTIFICATION WITH THE AMERICAN PAST AND THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISOLATION OF MANY URBAN, DISADVANTAGED MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN…

One hundred and forty-five Head Start teachers, from lower-middle class families, attended a workshop in 1965 before working in the Head Start program. During the workshop and again in 1967 they filled out autobiographical and experience forms. The forms were used to test three hypotheses regarding differences associated with differential teaching…

A research project carried out by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory attempted to define and describe characteristic learning styles and related environmental factors of children of 2 minority groups in the Southwest. Students of Spanish American and Indian descent were subjected to specific tests, and comparative analyses were…

Three elementary demonstration-classes at San Fernando Valley State College were taught to perform a variety of sentence-building exercises demanding work with kernel sentences and their transforms. The primary class--a disadvantaged group--learned to manipulate questions, adjectives, and coordinating transformations. The third-fourth grade…

A bulletin consists of two articles on the language development of disadvantaged children. The opposing positions of language teachers on the "correct" approach to teaching standard English are outlined in one of the articles. On one side are those who favor creativity and freedom of expression while on the other side are the "purists" who are…

This Cooperative Language Development Project had two objectives: (1) to provide a modified language program for culturally disadvantaged first graders and (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in terms of academic, intellectual, and linguistic growth. In a 2-year intervention program experimental versions of the Peabody Language…

This document is section one of a final report on Head Start Evaluation and Research for 1967-68 by the Child Development Evaluation and Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin. This section is composed of two studies: (A) Middle Class Mother-Teachers in an Experimental Preschool Program for Socially Disadvantaged Children (PS 001…

A 1965 summer training program for 90 VISTA volunteers at Monte Vista, Colorado, is described and evaluated in this report. The program was designed to prepare VISTA trainees to work in poverty areas by providing individual helping services and by planning and organizing community action. The trainees lived and worked in Monte Vista, a small…

Approximately 60 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children were administered a language test constructed to determine theirlanguage usage levels and limitations. Half of the children were classified as Head Start and half as middle class. The language test involved the presentation of strings of three to seven phonemes organized on five levels of…

Selected high school, vocational school, community college, university, and industry personnel attended a conference to encourage research and dissemination of research findings in vocational and technical education. Studies reported are--(1) "Vocational Interests and Personality Patterns of High School Dropouts of High Ability," (2) "The…

On the basis of a study of the language of 22 black children in a rural county of northern Florida, the author states that apart from geographical dialects, there are two "genera" of English: Black (BE) and White (WE). Within each of these genera there are two varieties: Educated and Uneducated. These are further defined by…