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SILVERMAN, ABRAHAM – 1961
THE PURPOSE IS TO RAISE THE EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL, AND VOCATIONAL SIGHTS OF ALL PUPILS IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY HAVE BETTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCEMENT IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE. THE PROJECT AIMS ARE CARRIED OUT THROUGH EMPHASIS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS--CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT, CULTURAL EXPERIENCES, REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION, TEACHER WORKSHOPS AND…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Advanced Placement, Aspiration, Career Choice
Haney, Walt; Kinyanjui, Kabiru – IRCD Bulletin, 1979
After a period of striving for equal educational opportunity and progress toward that goal, American society is now shifting toward more emphasis on educational quality. However, some fear that the rise of Minimum Competency Testing (MCT) may hinder rather than help minority students' opportunities for equal education. Despite gains in the number…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Students, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Stolurow, Lawrence M. – 1967
A computer-based instructional (CBI) system was developed following a conceptualization of the teaching-learning process and was used to conduct research relating to an idiographic model of tutorial instruction and to investigate basic variables in learning and transfer. To adapt teaching modes to individual learners, the CBI system (acronym:…
Descriptors: Branching, Computer Assisted Instruction, Concept Teaching, Cross Cultural Training
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Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Dept. of Planning and Evaluation. – 1977
During the 1974-75 school year, reading laboratories were established in Dade County, Florida senior high schools as an approach to the remediation, development, or acceleration of the reading skills of senior high school pupils. This evaluation sought to determine the reading program's potential for improving the reading skills of senior high…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Achievement Gains, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Div. of Compensatory Education. – 1975
Most school systems in Georgia received some sort of assistance during fiscal years 1974 and 1975 from Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Since its passage in 1965, Title I has been the major federal funding source for education, providing a broad range of services. The aim of Title I is to serve culturally and economically…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Clary, Sonja – 1975
A total education program involving evaluation, remediation, and tutoring has been developed at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents. An educational evaluation is given to all students upon entrance to the center and usually includes both formal and informal tests on auditory perception, fine motor abilities, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Change, Diagnostic Teaching
Rawson, Margaret B. – 1974
This selected bibliography contains sources relevant to the general interests and specific needs of persons concerned with language and its disorders, especially specific language disability or ineptitude in learning the basic skills of language, such as dyslexia. The list was prepared first for students in language re-education at Hood College…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Moore, William, Jr. – 1976
It is a widely accepted fact that community and junior colleges have a special commitment to serve students who in other types of higher educational institutions would be considered high risks because they are less likely than other entrants to complete their chosen programs of study. Professor Moore makes clear that the commitment, though well…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Counseling, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Benenson, Thea Fuchs – 1974
During fall 1972, Bronx Community College inaugurated Project STIR, an interdisciplinary, block-programmed project designed to facilitate an intense, collaborative remediation program for entering Liberal Arts freshmen needing remedial assistance in reading, writing, and mathematics. This project was later renamed Project LINK, and was expanded to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged, Individual Counseling
Bronx Community Coll., NY. – 1974
The Bronx Community College entering class in September 1974 is described in terms of high school averages (general, English, mathematics, foreign language) and of placements into precollege-level English, reading, and mathematics courses. The actual programs of the students placed, but not registered, in these remedial courses are examined. A…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Community Colleges, English Curriculum
Schiffman, Gilbert B. – 1967
The diagnosis of severely retarded pupils as an interdisciplinary concern is discussed. Descriptions of the severe reading disability syndrome given by various disciplines are presented under the following headings: Neurological Factors--minimal brain damage, lateral dominance; Physical Factors--endocrine and metabolic disorders, optical and…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Educational Diagnosis, Handicapped Children, Interdisciplinary Approach
Kitzhaber, Albert R. – 1963
This report, based on a survey of 215 junior colleges, describes the junior college and its educational objectives. Concentrating on the teaching of English, customarily described as a remedial course patterned after high school grammar and composition courses, the author probes for strengths and weaknesses in the junior college curriculum.…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, English
Harrison, Don K. – 1970
The author, as former administrative head of Detroit Northern Systems Company, describes that company's successful approach to the training of the hard-core unemployed. The systems approach emphasizes the achievement of goals and sub-goals through an interplay of program components which include training lines of 'tool stations,' back-up classes…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Career Counseling, Correctional Education, Counseling
Streets, Virgus Otis – 1968
This PROJECT DESIGN report, funded under ESEA Title III, assesses the special learner needs of Negro students and adults. Interviews were conducted with Negro residents of West Fresno as to the educational needs of the Negro population. The interviews focused on the day-to-day operation of the school system in relation to the following societal…
Descriptors: Black Students, Communication Skills, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education
Phillips, Beeman N. – 1970
Current and projected educational developments (such as the increasing demand for school psychological services) as well as the traditional friction between teaching and psychological services, are briefly considered as a backdrop against which to present a general diagnostic intervention services model. The model identifies three levels of school…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Diagnostic Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Discipline
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