The public two-year college in its exemplary (comprehensive) form is an open admissions institution characterized by diverse curricular offerings, with a heavy emphasis on guidance and counseling, as well as an emphasis on compensatory and continuing education. The major focus of this study was to examine, by a survey of community colleges, the…

Federal funds authorized under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and Title IV-A of the 1967 Amendments to the Social Security Act provided compensatory programs and family services. The English-Reading Activity under Title I consisted of intensive reading instruction and health-medical services for the lowest achievers.…

This book contains a synthesis of discussions which took place during the meeting of the UNESCO Institute for Education held in October, 1967 in Hamburg, Germany. The Institute undertook the task of examining various forms of disadvantage deprivation in the various regions of the world, and methods used for remediation of these effects. The aim of…

This letter from Seymour Heyman, Deputy Chancellor of the City University of New York, answers on a point-by-point basis the criticism leveled against the open admissions policy of CUNY by Evans and Novak in an article in the Washington Post. The letter identifies "the utterly baffled freshman" as a newly arrived student from Greece with…

The point of view taken is that an open admissions program does not exist, but that existing programs aim at expanding the basis of admission. Nine aspects of the program are discussed: (1) the question of "open admissions" or "expanded admissions" and the problem that economic forces remain powerful barriers to higher education; (2) the…

This is the report of an evaluation to determine whether ESEA Title I programs conducted in the District of Columbia Schools during the Summer of 1970 fulfilled their stated objectives. The effect of these programs on the students and teachers involved was also investigated. For each of the summer programs there is reported a brief description,…

The behind-the-scenes story of "Sesame Street" is told from its origin as a "good idea," through the development of the Children's Television Workshop, to the casting of the now familiar characters, Susan, Bob, Gordon, Mr. Hooper, and the Muppets. Details of producing the show are described with anecdotes. The effect of…

This publication reports the results of a study of comparability data submitted by 80 of the nation's largest school districts. The study sought to determine the degree of school district compliance with USOE regulations implementing Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Of the 80 schools, the study found that (1) 29.38…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report prepared by the Hungarian National Educational Institute in response to an IBE questionnaire. Under the Constitution, the young have equal rights to education without national, religious, or other discrimination. Nevertheless, many students, mainly from manual…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a French report in response to an IBE questionnaire. Studies conducted by the Ministry of Information have revealed that particularly serious educational wastage has been taking place on both the elementary and secondary levels, and the French education system is not well…

This report describes an evaluation program for the kindergartens in Williamsburg County, S.C. for 1970-71. Twenty-five kindergartens, serving 587 children in ten elementary schools in the county, were operated on a full day schedule during the 1970-71 school year. Eighty-one percent of the children enrolled were from poor families. The evaluation…

The primary goal of this project was to determine and evaluate the effects of exposing groups of poverty children to a model educational program for differing lengths of time. The results indicated that the children who participated in the Learning to Learn Program made significantly greater developmental gains than the control children who…

This study assesses the effectiveness of innovative programs for high risk students at four community junior colleges with somewhat different approaches to remedial education. Each program is described in terms of organizational structure, subject matter content, instructional strategies, counseling services, philosophy and objectives, grading…

A comparative analysis of foreign language teaching methods considered within the framework of the author's EBTA Cube (Eight Basic Approaches to Teaching) contrasts methods of instruction in three categories: (1) non-programed versus programed instruction, (2) mass versus individualized instruction, and (3) traditional versus compensatory…

A description and evaluation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I-funded programs for the state of Oklahoma are reviewed in this report. The project components include the following: remedial reading, speech therapy, learning disabilities, underachievers, remedial math, remedial language arts, remedial science, special education, and…