This document presents the testimony of the Chancellor of the City of New York Board of Education, for the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Opening remarks address the issue of racial integration and the Board of Education's commitment to its adoption as official policy. Six recent actions taken by the Chancellor to promote integration…

Basic research findings, concepts, ideas, and insights are explored in considering what is believed to be an old yet still crucial issue today--equality of educational opportunities. This document is said to serve seven purposes; introduction to the issue, analysis and illustration of major elements in the issue, illumination of the major role…

In New York the private and benevolent Free School Society began operations in 1805 because there were too few schools for the poor in the city, and it treated education as a regular separation from a seductive yet frightening world. Perhaps the most neglected and misunderstood period in the history of an organization whose activities have been…

Seeking to trace both the nature and the extent of ceremonial (regressive) resistance to the progressive forces of technology and industrialization, the origins and consequences of economic, political, and social institutions in the Southern United States were investigated. Data were derived from the following sources: (1) Southern regional…

As the final part of a three-volume study, this review focuses on housing as an instrument of environmental change with particular emphasis on socioeconomic rather than physical dimensions. Three literature orientations relating to the effectiveness of intervention in the lives of the poor are used for review. They are (1) literature that is…

This report is a non-technical summary of six major evaluation reports on the Follow Through Program in Philadelphia, 1973-74. Positive findings are presented in the areas of pupil achievement, teacher and pupil continuance and pupil absence, and supportive services and parent involvement. The Follow Through Program in Philadelphia is comprised of…

This evaluation of Project Special Elementary Education for the Disadvantaged (SEED) sought to assess the impact of SEED instruction upon students enrolled in disadvantaged schools (grades three to six) in four major study areas: mathematics achievement, interest in math and other school subjects, motivation, and self concept. In addition, the…

The research for this paper was concentrated in a poor barrio in Bogota, Columbia. The Paper discussed learning in a poor urban community using the ethnographic example of a small community to illustrate the larger socio-political impact of the implication of the United States' policy and position for Colombia. The account is considered to be…

The publication is a summary of the Federally sponsored programs for disadvantaged and handicapped persons that have been administered by the Special Needs Section of the Iowa State Department of Public Instruction during fiscal years 1972, 1973, and 1974. It is the responsibility of the Special Needs Section to plan, implement, and evaluate…

This is a report on two courses, one undergraduate and one graduate, which taught education majors, through films, discussions, book reviews, field trips, and community work, how to become master teachers skilled in reaching culturally different children. The report examines the purposes and content of the courses and concludes that they were…

This report comes out of the 1974 Teacher Corps Conference, which was held to acquaint Teacher Corps personnel with new ideas to enhance their abilities to train interns to work with children with special needs. The first part of the report is composed of 18 speeches on topics such as: community involvement in education, ethnic diversity,…

Included in the report of Project MODEL's final year of operation as a Federally-funded educational project is a brief description of the project and an examination of its various operational activities. The project was originally designed to test the effectiveness of a specialized form of instruction for specific groups (physically and mentally…

A programmed-workbook cassette-delivered approach to letter and number recognition, "From Letters to Words," was compared with a traditional method of teaching letter recognition. The subjects were 153 disadvantaged first-grade students. The 75 experimental subjects were individually instructed by the investigators and teachers on the use of the…

The overall purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness and practicability of a home-centered preschool intervention program for cognitive, language, and personality development of mother and child, based upon the use of paraprofessional educators who are themselves members of the population served. One question considered was…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Distar reading program on the reading achievement of fifth-grade students in three schools on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Distar programs were developed to help overcome some of the problems of disadvantaged children. The program is a highly structured one, designed to…