This report is another in a continuing series of reports on open admissions compiled by the CUNY Office of Program and Policy Research. An earlier report dealt with general trends in student retention at the City University of New York during the period September 1970 through June 1972. The new report studies academic trends, in terms of credits…

Four essays based on workshop presentations are provided as being representative of the approaches to teaching communications in Higher Education Achievement Program Speaking-Listening during the past three years. They suggest a range of activities and an evolving philosophy of accommodating the student entering a compensatory program at the…

Six papers presented at a Higher Education Achievement Program (HEAP) Workshop by reading instructors at junior colleges are provided. In two of the papers, Jeanette Wilkerson lists the objectives of the Meridian Junior College reading program and provides a general description of the mode of operation, and Brenda Smith explains the structure and…

The Model Cities Educational Priorities and Program Development (EPPD) Project involved two elementary schools located within the Model Cities areas of Kansas City, Missouri, during the 1972-3 school year. The stated objectives of the program were as follows: (1) Identify the educational needs of inner city children in America in the 1970s, with…

This manual is one of seven publications designed to implement the Home-Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE) Program, which uses televised, mobile classroom, and parent instruction to educate 3-, 4-, and 5-year olds. It describes (1) responsibilities of the program materials production team; (2) responsibilities of the field team which operates the…

This publication continues the descriptions of the cognitive, psychomotor, and socioemotional measures used in all years of the Head Start Planned Variation Evaluation study. Included is a detailed examination of each measure, a discussion of the theory behind it, and a review of the available data on the measure's reliability, validity and other…

Twenty-nine projects evaluated during the 1967-68 school year in the national evaluation of Project Follow Through are discussed in this final report. The report provides, in a narrative format, only the "hard" data gathered during the pre-test period. Specifically, this report reviews relevant literature, describes the procedures and…

The Milwaukee Bilingual Education Program, a five-year pilot project, ended its fourth year in June, 1973. The program provided a Spanish/English bilingual/bicultural curriculum taught by a bilingual staff of Spanish-American heritage. Both Spanish and English were used for instruction in order that pupils might demonstrate grade-level academic…

The contents of this Supplementary Paper are an attempt to refine the meaning of the common concept of equality of opportunity. The following papers are included: "The Meanings of Equality," James L. Jarrett; "Poverty and Childhood," Jerome S. Bruner; "The Crucible of the Urban Classroom," Staten W. Webster; "Increasing Educational Opportunity:…

Wichita's activities funded under ESEA Title I, designed to improve educational opportunities for its disadvantaged youth, began in the spring of 1966. The major thrust has been in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language development. Integration policies using busing prevented the concentration of funds on…

Contents of this report on Title I, E.S.E.A., include: the nature and purposes of Title I; the uses of Title I; Process for developing Title I proposals--responsible bodies: role of parents, community advisory committee, community school board, New York City Board of Education staff, State Department of Education; time-table for development of…

A summer educational program for the children of migratory Spanish Americans in the Greeley area of Colorado is presented. Philosophically, the approach is one of continuous progress; organizationally, it is nongraded, with emphasis on individualized instruction. Three levels are discussed: Early Primary (ages 5-8), Primary (ages 7-10), and…

Higher Horizons 100 is an articulated approach to compensatory education for four groups fo approximately 100 urban students in grades seven to nine. Working through an instructional team made up of teachers and other specialists, the program is designed to motivate and encourage individual youngsters to react to a student-centered educational…

Project SUPER (Spokane's Urban Progress Education Recipe) emerged from meetings between community representatives and spokesmen of the Spokane Public Schools in August 1969 concerned with the disposal of special funds for improving education programs in Washington's Urban-Rural-Racial Disadvantaged schools provided by the 1968-69 Washington State…

This evaluation attempts to measure the extent and effectiveness of ESEA Title I programs designed to meet the needs of disadvantaged children and apprizes the public and the legislature of program outcomes. In keeping with USOE requirements for evaluating Title I programs, this document is constructed of (1) responses to USOE probes by…