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Download full textEgan, B. – 1975
One of thirteen individualized courses included in a marketing curriculum, this course covers training of employees, employee evaluation, motivation and morale of employees, and decision-making. The course is comprised of three units: (1) Employee Training, (2) Solving Human Relations Problems, and (3) Preventing Human Relations Problems. Each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Education, Decision Making, Disadvantaged
Webber, A. – 1975
One of five individualized courses included in a parent involvement curriculum, this course focuses on infant developmental characteristics, techniques of good physical care of the infant, and techniques for teaching the infant. The course is comprised of three units: (1) Growth and Development, (2) Infant Care, and (3) Developing the Baby's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
A major portion of Texas' State Compensatory Education (SCE) evaluation resources for 1979-80 was devoted to activities related to the statewide assessment of fifth and ninth graders' skills in reading, mathematics, and writing (the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills Project). For purposes of this report, evaluation activity and information is…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Counseling Services
DiPasalegne, Rosalee W.; Ogletree, Earl J. – 1976
The Direct Instructional System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR) was developed to provide beginning and remedial instruction to disadvantaged children in preschool and the primary grades. The method places heavy emphasis on structure, programmed learning, drill, and repetition. To determine teachers' opinions of the DISTAR reading…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Beginning Reading, Black Students, Compensatory Education
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1977
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the subcommittee on Childhood Experiences as Cause of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the second in a series of 19 hearings dating from…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Antisocial Behavior, Delinquent Behavior, Disadvantaged
Cranston, Alan – 1979
This speech by the chairman of the Child and Human Development Subcommittee of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee focuses on issues relating to the needs and problems of children and families. Programs under the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee include child abuse, child care, domestic violence, aspects of adoption and foster care…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Care, Child Neglect, Child Welfare
Bureau of Public Affairs (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. – 1978
The booklet contains the text of eight selected documents on human rights. The documents are Excerpts from the UN Charter; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; International Covenant on Civil and Political…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Civil Rights, Cooperation, Disadvantaged
Powers, Stephen – 1979
A longitudinal study was initiated in the Tuscon Unified School District (TUSD) to follow the achievement of seventh and ninth grade Title I students: (1) to investigate the suitability and difficulty of the Total Reading Test of the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) and the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS); (2) to compare the gains in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Testing
Yellin, David – 1977
The views of proponents and opponents of the language deficit theory--the theory that nonstandard dialect is a deficient form of language--are presented in this paper. Following a description of the work of Basil Bernstein, a British educator who is considered the key figure among proponents of the theory, the paper presents an overview of the…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Child Language, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Vinson, Elizabeth A. – 1978
The study directs attention away from urban poverty to the nation's rural poor and how they are served by five public assistance programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and its Unemployed Fathers Component (AFDC-UF), Supplementary Security Income (SSI), Food Stamps (FS), and General Assistance. The 41% of the nation's poor who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Role, Community Programs, Demography
Spear, Barbara E. – 1979
A program for adults with learning disabilities is being conducted at the Educational Testing and Learning Clinic (ETLC) at Orange Coast College (OCC). The program has five components. In order to enroll, the student's basic skill level must be below the eighth grade in reading, spelling, and writing, and below the sixth grade in mathematics. The…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Testing
Lazar, Irving; And Others – 1978
The findings of several longitudinal studies of low income children who participated in experimental preschool intervention programs over the past decade and a half are summarized in this report. The data resulting from these studies are organized into four categories: (1) preschool effects on target children's later school performances, including…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Aspiration, Data Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
Emergent Leadership, 1978
This periodical is intended for exchanging information about leadership achievements, program innovations, research findings, and organizational developments having special interest to and bearing upon minority group members and women in education. This issue contains six articles, "State Education Agencies and the Delivery of Quality…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Administrators, Black Colleges, Black Education
Empacher, Marjorie, R. P. – 1977
An analysis of the problems of an illiterate woman who learned to read as an adult, based on oral history techniques supplemented by information from teachers, family, and friends, is presented in this paper. An account of the woman's life is first presented to show her complete inability to read or write through ten years of schooling, the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Case Studies, Educational Needs
JACOBS, JAMES N. – 1967
THIS REPORT CONSISTS OF EVALUATIONS OF SIX ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, TITLE I (ESEA) PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN CINCINNATI, OHIO, PUBLIC SCHOOLS DURING THE 1965-66 SCHOOL YEAR. THE PROJECTS OFFERED (1) EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, (2) SPEECH IMPROVEMENT, (3) REMEDIATION OF EMOTIONAL AND LEARNING PROBLEMS, (4) PHYSICAL HEALTH SERVICES, (5)…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
