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Download full textMueller, Siegfried; And Others – 1974
This program operates on the assumption that exposure of 3- and 4-year-old children to a structured basic skills oriented program with continuity will substantially increase the contributions of school-related factors to educational achievement and adjustments, and to a large extent erase the gap between less advantaged children and their more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Programs
A Sheltered Work Experience Centered Vocational Curriculum for Low Achieving Students. Final Report.
Dickson, Elizabeth – 1973
The purpose of the Sylacauga, Alabama, exemplary program, reported for the period from July 1, 1970 to June 30, 1973, was to demonstrate practices found effective for working with socioeconomically disadvantaged and other dropout-prone students. Program objectives were to provide: (1) student counseling services to help appraise interests,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Counseling, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs
Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Head Start Evaluation and Research Center. – 1969
The application of behavior modification procedures by Head Start teachers in the classroom and the remedial application of programmed instructions to children with preacademic deficiencies were studied in 11 classrooms located in three Kansas towns--Lawrence, Topeka, and Kansas City. Data were collected throughout the 1968-1969 year on both the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Continuing Education Curriculum Development. – 1974
The purpose of this manuscript (written in Spanish) is to encourage the development of communication skills of preschool children by introducing their parents to a number of learning activities suitable for home use. It is written to be used by an instructor who is working with preschool parents. The activities, which are designed to be…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation, Decision Making Skills
Birch, Herbert G.; Gussow, Joan Dye – 1970
This book examines the relationships between poverty, disadvantage, and educational failure in a way considered to be more comprehensive and complex than is possible when such an examination is based solely on a concept of cultural disadvantage and defective experience. The mortality of infants and their mothers around birth, held to be both the…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Body Weight, Child Development, Compensatory Education
Hellmuth, Jerome, Ed. – 1970
This volume of the "Disadvantaged Child" Series presents papers on all aspects of the compensatory education debate, written in large part by many of the educators who played leading roles in this program. Part I provides a comprehensive overall picture of the program. Part II discusses culture-fair testing, "Jensenism" and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests
Hellmuth, Jerome, Ed. – 1967
The first volume of a collection contains 19 articles on the disadvantaged child. There are chapters on child rearing patterns, mental retardation, schools serving disadvantaged students, Northern urban education, adjustment problems, and assessment of potential. Also included are papers dealing with education and/or compensatory programs, teacher…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Child Rearing, Citations (References)
Lins, L. Joseph, Ed. – 1969
The proceedings of a 1968 interagency conference concerned with the educational needs of the disadvantaged are presented. The three keynote addresses dealt with the characteristics of the educationally deprived, the role of the state government in the education of the deprived, and Federal-state relations in meeting their needs. Educational…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Students, Compensatory Education, Conference Reports
Moore, Donald R., Ed.; And Others – 1969
In this book, an expanded version of a 1968 special issue of the Harvard Educational Review, contributors discuss the definition of the concept of equal educational opportunity, educational research relevant to the concept, and the policy issues surrounding the achievement of equal opportunity. Included are such topics as the validity of the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Black Students, Civil Rights, Community Involvement
McKelvey, Troy V., Ed.; Swanson, Austin D., Ed. – 1969
This document contains 12 papers presented at an institute for urban school administrators designed to deal with the contemporary urban educational problems incident to school desegregation, social integration, and the equality of educational opportunity. The authors of the papers relate recent research findings to practical field experience, and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Communication Problems, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education
Johns, Roe L., Ed.; And Others – 1969
Roe L. Johns and J. Alan Thomas survey the problem of educational need; and Kern Alexander considers the implications of the dimensions of educational need for school financing. Dimensions of need in the following areas are defined: early childhood and basic elementary and secondary education, by William P. McLure; educational programs for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Bereiter, Carl; And Others – 1969
Seven studies were undertaken to further extend the development and testing of an academically-oriented preschool program for disadvantaged children. The studies investigated (1) Curricula Development and Testing in Bereiter-Engelmann Program, (2) Dual Kindergarten, (3) Follow-Up Data on the Achievement of Disadvantaged Children Who Participated…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Auditory Discrimination, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Design
Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. – 1972
Some characteristics of children, their families, the programs they attended, and the relationship of these experiences to their development are covered in this national report on the immediate changes associated with participation in full year Head Start programs. Major emphasis was placed on the child's cognitive and social development in the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Child Development, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1971
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education
Ahlstrom, Clyde J. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education
