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Download full textDetroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Research and Development. – 1966
A Cultural Enrichment Project (CEP) in the Detroit public and parochial schools reached 100,000 disadvantaged pupils and offered about 50 different program events. This evaluation of CEP is based on ratings by teachers, attendance figures, and a cost per pupil analysis. It was found that all but three of the events received teacher ratings of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Concerts, Cultural Activities, Cultural Enrichment
Schreiber, Daniel, Ed. – 1967
The essays in this collection examine the school dropout from various points of view. Part I contains essays suggesting that the roots of the educational problems of the disadvantaged youth and the school dropout can be found in the poor state of contemporary public education; the essays in Part II present statistical data identifying the…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged, Dropout Characteristics
Bloesser, Robert; And Others – 1968
In an attempt to help college students who needed remedial work in English composition and reading, a combination of four courses (two in English and two in psychology) by means of team teaching and block scheduling was designed at Foothill College. During the spring of 1968, 30 selected students met during a 2-hour block of time five days a week.…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Diagnostic Tests
Cheyney, Arnold B. – 1967
The culturally disadvantaged child's lack of facility in oral expression is caused primarily by an inadequate vocabulary. Teaching practices capitalizing on the seemingly inherent high degree of physical involvement of the disadvantaged child have met with much success. Educational games, plays which call for imagination and emphasize correct…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Curriculum Enrichment, Curriculum Problems
New York Univ., NY. Inst. for Developmental Studies. – 1968
Telephone interviews designed to elicit open-ended responses from disadvantaged kindergarten children were taped, analyzed, and scored to test the reliability of this interview technique in obtaining representative speech samples. To determine the effect of familiarity with telephones, one group of 12 children was provided with telephones in the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Disadvantaged Youth, English Instruction, Interviews
Wattenberg, William W. – 1967
This conference paper points out that there are different patterns of social deviancy among the various socioeconomic classes, and remedial treatment must take this class differential into account. For example, practitioners should be aware that there is a greater incidence of brain damage among children from impoverished families, and that…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Counseling, Delinquency
Howlett, Veonne W. – 1977
A comparison of the scholastic achievement of office education students receiving Federal aid with office education students not receiving Federal aid was the focus of a study conducted in three two-year colleges in Utah. The Shipley Institute of Living Scale was administered in fall 1975 to all students (n=397) enrolled in typewriting, shorthand,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Business Education, Community Colleges, Educational Research
Hershkowitz, Martin – 1974
A systems analysis of a community educational television (ETV) structure and of community needs was made in three counties of Appalachian Maryland to see whether an ETV system could meet integrated needs of public school students, disadvantaged families, educators, health service groups, police and fire departments, and business/industry across…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Cooperation, Business, Costs
Britton, James; And Others – 1976
This collection of papers deals with the slower learner in the Scottish secondary school. The first paper, "Language and Learning," presents ways of classifying slow learners and the classroom activities designed for them. The second paper, "The Teaching of Reading," discusses reading as a thinking process and offers teaching methods based upon…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education
Kahn, Paul – 1975
This evaluation report is a description of Homework Helpers, a program funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act, Title I in nine non-public schools with disadvantaged youngsters. The two purposes of the program were to improve the competency of the students in reading and mathematics skills, and increase student motivation and interest…
Descriptors: After School Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Ridge, Richard A. – 1977
The planning and development of a program to promote interaction among commuter students at Germanna Community College and to provide for their various needs are described. The program involved establishing an Interaction Center (IC) in 1974, centrally located in proximity to the college's learning resources center and library. The center was to…
Descriptors: College Environment, Community Colleges, Commuting Students, Counseling
Demik, Gary H.; And Others – 1975
The report describes the development of a model training program, Training and Technology, and subsequent efforts to diffuse the innovation. Before the inception of TAT, a survey study, Resources for Southern Manpower Development, had indicated that the South had considerable manpower development potential and need. TAT was organized by Oak Ridge…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Industrial Training, Institutional Cooperation
Peters, James S., II – 1971
The study of vocational rehabilitation of the disabled and disadvantaged in the United States and Europe focuses on the extent to which workshops and rehabilitation facilities meet the needs of handicapped individuals in their adjustment to disablement and to the world of work. The study provides background information and statistics, discusses…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Programs, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries
Wright, Charlene J.; And Others – 1975
The general objective of this study was to determine the effects on maternal teaching styles of a weekly home-visit intervention program designed to further effective parenting of children aged 0-5, in low-income, low-education families. Assessment was made by comparing the results of the coding of video tape recordings of interactions between…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Rural Housing Alliance, Washington, DC. – 1975
A distillation of hundreds of speeches, working papers, panel sessions, informal discussions, and formal resolutions, this report is derived from the First National Conference on Rural America (April 1975) and reflects emergence of a rural political platform. Attended by approximately 1,500 people from 49 States, Puerto Rico, and Canada, the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Conference Reports, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
