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CHILD, IRVIN L. – 1962
THE ABILITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS TO RECOGNIZE DEGREES OF ESTHETIC MERIT IN OBJECTS OF ART WAS STUDIED. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DETERMINE BY EXPERIMENTATION SOME OF THE FACTORS WHICH MAY BE IMPORTANT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ESTHETIC JUDGMENT. A SAMPLE OF MALE COLLEGE STUDENTS WAS GIVEN SEVERAL TESTS OF ESTHETIC JUDGMENT. FROM THESE SUBJECTS WERE CHOSEN…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, College Students, Cultural Enrichment, Group Dynamics
Download full textHartford Public Schools, CT. – 1974
Originally planned to open in the fall of 1965 under funding from the Office of Economic Opportunity, and continued over the years with State Act for Disadvantaged Children funds, Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) was from its inception conceived as a ninth grade center where a compensatory program would work. Despite its expansion from one team to a…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Planning, Compensatory Education
Hartford Public Schools, CT. – 1972
The original Higher Horizons Program or HH 100, was established in 1965 as a ninth grade compensatory model which could be used to demonstrate that some of the more salient ravages of educational deprivation could be corrected effectively, and at the high school level. So as to demonstrate that secondary school compensatory education could…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cultural Enrichment, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Innovation
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1968
The "Greater Opportunity Program", funded by ESEA Title III, has provided academic instruction, cultural stimulation, and supportive counseling to 100 underachieving disadvantaged Hartford boys about to enter high school. The resident program has been conducted at the Hotchkiss School using the independent school's staff for 7-week…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, English Instruction
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1972
Each academic year since its inception in 1965, the Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) program has provided a remedial language and intensive counseling program to 100 disadvantaged ninth-grade students. The goal of the program is to improve the language skills, self-concept, and school adjustment of disadvantaged students having no serious emotional…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Counseling Services, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development
Hartford City Board of Education, CT. Research and Publication Dept. – 1966
This document describes two third- and ninth-grade experimental centers which were established to develop language competence and academic motivation in disadvantaged students in Hartford. Evaluation of the ninth-grade "Higher Horizons 100" center is presented. Composed of six staff members, the center provided intensive small-group…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 3
