This report, an expansion on "The Interim Report: Research of the New Nursery School," is presented in three sections. The first section examines the test results of 29 children enrolled in the New Nursery School (NNS, for academically handicapped, low income Mexican-Americans) and the REN school (similar to the NNS but for children whose parents…

Designed as a resource guide for teachers and teacher educators, this annotated bibliography contains 102 citations (e.g., journal articles, program descriptions, research reports) most of them dated between 1968 and 1970. There are five sections: 1) Characteristics and Problems of the Disadvantaged--22 items; 2) Attitudes Toward the…

This collection of articles on compensatory preschool education is chiefly the result of a conference at the University College of Swansea, Wales, during the Easter vacation of 1969. Articles include the following: (1) "Compensatory education and the infant school"; (2) "Compensatory programmes and early childhood education in the…

The mental health of the citizens of a community is in part dependent upon their ability to join in and obtain the rewards of the fulfilled life of a competent member of society. This has been very difficult for the disadvantaged to accomplish because their backgrounds have been one of deprivation and their opportunities have been limited. But the…

The Communication Skills Center Project (CSC) in Detroit, Michigan, a Title I project, provided remedial reading services to 2,845 educationally disadvantaged children (80 to 85 percent Negro) in grades 2 through 12 during 1966-67. The facilities included six communication skills centers, three serving elementary and junior high school students…

The intent given for the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Program staff development activities is to assist local individual teachers, teacher groups, schools, and school districts in the implementation of in-service training activities that will enhance improvement of the individual teacher. Twenty-five experiences provided by…

Educational intervention programs involving disadvantaged children have not sufficiently succeeded in the remediation of their academic deficiencies. Gains made appear to be very short term and generally unimpressive. Accepting the assumption that the deficiencies are not genetic, one is led to suspect the adequacy of the educational system.…

Three major areas of needed research in language and reading development for children of Spanish-speaking backgrounds are presented in a general overview. The first area of need is that of normative and descriptive studies of prelearning processes. This includes analyses of language base and home language behavior and is aimed at a more precise…

This document describes and evaluates a teen tutorial program conducted in Grove City, Ohio. Forty seventh grade pupils, two kindergarten classes, and parents of both groups were subjects of this project to create and demonstrate a strategy to help young disadvantaged teenagers develop an understanding of personal and family relationships before…

The object of this study was to determine the extent to which disadvantaged kindergarten pupils would benefit from association with advantaged pupils and teachers in the improvement of basic skills and self-concept. The sample for 1967-68 was composed of 20 disadvantaged rural Negro and Caucasion 5-year-old children randomly selected. The sample…

The essential goal of the Maclay On-Site Training Project is "to develop a method for training teachers who will be effective with the educationally disadvantaged." Although this final report summarizes the objectives and design of the overall project and its five components, its emphasis is on research developments related to ways of evaluating…

This report, an annual evaluation of Mississippi's Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program, is comprised of three sections. Section I presents a general analysis of Title I, and a description of activities and methods. Sections II and III are completely devoted to tabulations. In Section II appear tables reflecting surveys and…

Programs conducted by the City University of New York (CUNY) for helping disadvantaged youth prepare for and succeed in college are described. An Urban Center program runs several projects, notably a College Adapter Program which helps high school students who are not qualified for college admission. The community colleges provide 2-year terminal…

This study addresses itself to the quality of evaluation research on compensatory education programs, the knowledge based on such evaluations as to the effectiveness of compensatory education, and the implications of the data that need to be examined for future planning of such programs and for designing studies to test their effectiveness.…

Evaluation of Head Start has been based on four sources of information: (1) census surveys of children and families served and programs offered, (2) special research, projects on child development and experimental programs, (3) a longitudinal study of the development of low income children, and (4) a series of national evaluation studies.…