The working party was first set up in December 1965. In the spring term of 1966 some 22 primary schools with large numbers of immigrants were visited and long discussions held with head teachers and staff. It was then decided to collect written information from all the Authority's schools containing juniors and with more than one third of their…

This presentation is comprised of 17 session papers and the transcripts of two group discussions all dealing with various aspects of campus physical plant maintenance. Among the subjects covered are: the post-traditional campus, central environmental control, contract management service, operational and maintenance planning, air handling systems,…

Women faculty members must unite with women students to gain control over their work--education-- and make that education meaningful to women. Since the struggles of the two groups for liberation are not separate, the needs of women students at community colleges should be important to faculty. It is maintained that at Manhattan Community College…

Junior and community colleges must explode many traditional notions about education in order to fulfill their promises to poor and disadvantaged students. The number of junior and community colleges and the number of students attending them have increased rapidly in the past few years. But many communities think that community colleges didn't keep…

Investigating non-linguistic factors which may have contributed significantly to Chicanos' educational problems, the study determined that the major objective of bilingual education should be to correct the Chicano child's negative self-image. Fatalism, a legacy of poverty, dropouts caused by language and culture conflicts, low achievement on…

The second of two meetings dealing with deprivation and disadvantage in education concentrated attention on the problems in developing countries. In many countries the problems are so complex that rational analysis is not undertaken; decisions are made on the basis of political expediency or on economically based criteria. In most cases, whole…

A Vocational Interest Inventory was developed for vocational high school students with low reading level, short test-attention span, low IQ, and impoverished educational and family background. The VII, of which there are separate versions for boys and girls, consists of items representing job tasks, for each of which the respondent indicates his…

Operation Pathfinder was a special manpower project designed to retrain behaviors of the disadvantaged and to establish positive motivations to work for a living through application of social reinforcement methodology. The project demonstrated that a positive reinforcing environment and properly structured work situation will provide a means of…

This study extends previous research done on the impulsivity-reflection dimension whereby it was determined that children who are impulsive tend to report the first response that occurs to them, while reflective children delay before answering (considering the alternative solutions to problems with high response uncertainty); and that…

The aim of the study was to discover a satisfactory predictor of residential mobility among inner city families in light of the effect which the high rate of student transfer has upon curriculum development, staff morale, and student scholastic achievement. The sample of 358 families was administered a questionnaire dealing with demography,…

In 1967-68, the San Jose Unified District, in cooperation with the Education Division of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., implemented a special program for disadvantaged, underachieving, eighth-grade students. The primary objective of the program was to improve the motivation and achievement of disadvantaged students by providing special…

Under the provisions of Title IB of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (as amended), the Public Service Careers Plan B (PSC-B) program, funded by the U. S. Department of Labor, was designed to stimulate permanent employment opportunities for the disadvantaged and to encourage the upgrading of existing low-paid workers in agencies receiving…

This report evaluates the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) of the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture. About 184,000 low-income families participated in the program prior to October 1969. A national sample of 10,500 showed that family incomes were very low--less than 2,700 dollars, of which more than a third was…

An investigation was made of the relationship of achievement marks assigned by teachers to elementary grade, lower socioeconomic status boys and girls to pupils' (1) racial background, (2) sex, (3) intelligence quotient, and (4) tested achievement. Teacher marking procedures were studied. The rationale was to inquire whether or not characteristics…

A method for improving the vocabulary development of low-income children was studied. The method involved the used of specially devised toy situations as a medium of teacher-student communication. Two representative Toy-Talk Contexts were developed. Twenty-four children attending kindergarten at an inner-city school were the subjects in the study,…