This document is the final report to the Institute of Educational Development for Head Start Research Evaluation activities at the University of Kansas for 1966-67. It contains 16 separate reports of studies completed or in the process of completion. The subject matter of the reports contains 15 distinct topics and warrants individual abstracts.…

This guide is a collection of abstracts--most of them selected from English Curriculum Study and Demonstration Centers of the USOE English Program (Project English). It is intended to ease the announcement and distribution problems of the Centers by directing readers to the materials available from commercial or university publishers and from the…

The findings and implications of doctoral research on non-urban, low income school children are summarized. Studies were the language patterns of white first graders, and the attitudes, cognitive and affective variables, and academic achievement of Negro and white fifth and sixth graders. Poverty rather than race was found to be the significant…

This report is an evaluation of the compensatory education activities in Delaware funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The material is arranged according to the format stipulated by the U.S. Office of Education. In Section I the administrative aspects of the program are described and the pupils' performance on a…

This report contains an analysis of the efforts in 1965 and 1966 of the National Committee for Children and Youth (NCCY) to help the youth in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. who failed to meet the educational requirements for military enlistment. A description of the program includes: (1) background of the NCCY, (2) intake and followup process, (3)…

The December 1967 AACTE publication, "Standards and Evaluation Criteria for the Accreditation of Teacher Education--A Draft of the Proposed New Standards, With Study Guide," urges that content courses taken by prospective teachers be geared to the content that the teacher is expected to transmit to his pupils. This content has…

The major objective of this training institute was "to help critique the student teachers from the Houston, Texas, area develop knowledge and understanding of desegregation and its relationship to the teacher-learning situation in elementary and secondary schools". A further objective was to provide a cadre of new professional teachers…

Details are enumerated for 150 ESEA Title I projects being conducted across the nation through the 1968-69 school year to improve education for disadvantaged children. Basic information for each project includes type of project, place, starting date, cost, staff size and composition, participants (grade level if children, relationship if adult),…

A project was designed to provide therapy for disadvantaged children in New York City nonpublic schools who have the additional handicap of defective speech. Effectiveness of speech teachers in providing therapy services was evaluated. The measurements of effectiveness were determined from the following: trained speech pathologists' observation of…

Three studies dealing with the educational implications of technological change are presented. "The Application of Computer Technology to the Improvement of Instruction and Learning" by Don D. Bushnell, Richard deMille, and Judith Purl is based on 35 research and development programs involving computer technology. Their general thesis is…

Experimental educational programs emphasizing individualized instruction and motivation were conducted with classes from kindergarten through grade 6. Projects analyzed individualization and motivational procedures in mathematics, individualization in handwriting and spelling, instructional procedures in language arts for disadvantaged children,…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter addresses itself to the identification and training of appropriate personnel to implement intervention programs that prevent disruptive, delinquent acts within communities in general and schools in particular. Two models are presented to prepare teachers both to…

The instructional reading levels of students enrolled at Charles Stewart Mott Community College, a large urban institution with an open door policy, were investigated for 1971-72 through 1977-78. The study was based on the hypothesis that mean average reading levels in reading improvement classes declined over those years. All students entering…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter presents theory and data that indicate that alternative educational programs with certain characteristics are a promising method for the prevention and treatment of delinquent behavior. The theory proposes that delinquent behavior is a manifestation of a…

To test the effects of black English on school performance, 27 second graders in a Harlem school were interviewed and tested for competence in spontaneous speech, comprehension of oral and written materials, and oral reading, as well as for explicit grammatical knowledge of standard English morphemes often missing in black English. The data show…