This article explores issues that had to be confronted over a three-year period in terms of two New York State funded grants for which I was the evaluator. Major, critical challenges are presented, described, and discussed. Specifically, the paper addresses issues related to lack of planning at the grant design stage that resulted in challenges…

This hearing serves as a first in a set of hearings focusing on early learning. In his opening statement, Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, strongly encouraged members of this committee on both sides of the aisle to hold roundtables and have discussions on early learning in their local…

The inability of the United States to narrow the achievement gap stems to a large extent from school reform initiatives that neglect the specific conditions in the lives of low-income students that contribute heavily to inadequate school performance. A new consensus is emerging that a more effective approach would be to prevent the achievement gap…

Amistad Academy is a bright shining star in public school reform. Founded in 1999 in a renovated warehouse in a blighted New Haven, Connecticut, neighborhood by a group of Yale law school students, the 289-student charter school has won the praise of the last two federal education secretaries. Educators throughout the country have traveled to the…

THE STRENGTHENING OF READING AND LANGUAGE SKILLS, THE PROMOTING OF CLOSER RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD AND PARENTS, AND THE HELPING OF YOUTHS IN GETTING JOBS AND COLLEGE PLACEMENT ARE THE GOALS OF A PILOT PROJECT IN A CULTURALLY DEPRIVED AREA. INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT ARE TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, ONE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, AND THREE HIGH SCHOOLS,…

IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE ACTUAL INTEGRATION IN EVERY SCHOOL, THE GREENBURGH SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW YORK ABOLISHED NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS AND FOR THE PAST 12 YEARS ALL CHILDREN OF A GIVEN GRADE HAVE ATTENDED THE SAME SCHOOL. A PROJECT FOR CULTURALLY DEPRIVED STUDENTS HAS RECENTLY BEEN INSTITUTED TO PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF AN EDUCATION FOR…

TWO ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLY THIS PAPER--(1) A PUPIL'S LEARNING IS, IN LARGE MEASURE, A FUNCTION OF THE KIND OF TEACHING TO WHICH HE IS EXPOSED AND (2) A VARIETY OF "GOOD" TEACHERS DIFFERENTIALLY SUITED BY TEMPERAMENT AND TRAINING IS NEEDED TO TEACH DIFFERING GROUPS OF STUDENTS. STUDIES OF TEACHER PERFORMANCE MADE THE CATEGORIZING OF TEACHER…

GUIDELINES FOR WRITING DIRECTIONS AND FOR WRITING EXERCISES FOR THE DISADVANTAGED WHO ARE ON THE LOWEST READING LEVEL ARE PRESENTED. SENTENCE AND LANGUAGE STUCTURE SHOULD BE SIMPLE, BRIEF, AND CONVERSATIONAL. DIRECTIONS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A PART OF THE TEXT AND SHOULD BE ON THE SAME READING LEVEL. DIRECTIONS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A PART OF THE…

ENGLISH CURRICULUM MATERIALS (GATEWAY ENGLISH) DEVELOPED FOR USE WITH SEVENTH-GRADE DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WERE INFORMALLY EVALUATED. THE EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS INCLUDED (1) TEACHING MANUALS, (2) DAILY LESSON PLANS, AND (3) PROJECT ENGLISH MATERIALS SELECTED TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING HABITS. MATERIALS WERE DESIGNED…

CHANGES IN ACADEMIC APTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES OF PUPILS ATTENDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN DISADVANTAGED AREAS IN NEW YORK CITY WERE INVESTIGATED. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DETERMINE WHETHER VARYING DEGREES OF MOBILITY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH VARIATION IN CHANGES IN TEST SCORES. THE CUMULATIVE RECORD CARDS OF SIXTH-GRADE PUPILS WERE EXAMINED TO…

"OPERATION MOTIVATION" WAS STARTED IN 1957 AND SERVES 23 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WITH 16,000 CHILDREN, APPROXIMATELY 95 PERCENT OF WHOM ARE NEGRO. ITS PURPOSE IS TO RAISE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH MOTIVATION RATHER THAN ALTERED CURRICULA OR INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES. APPROACHES UNDERTAKEN BY THE PROGRAM INCLUDE CONVINCING THE TEACHERS THAT…

THIS REPORT SUMMARIZES THE MAJOR FINDINGS, ISSUES, STRATEGIES, AND PROJECTS WHICH EMANATED FROM A SEMINAR ON THE EDUCATION OF DEPRIVED AND SEGREGATED CHILDREN AND YOUTH HELD AT DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 3-15, 1963. FOUR HIGHLY INTERRELATED SOURCES OF EDUCATIONAL FAILURE WERE IDENTIFIED--(1) THE QUALITY OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY LIFE, (2)…

THE FOCUS IS ON PERSONALITY TRAITS OF YOUNG CHILDREN WHO ACHIEVE IN SCHOOL DESPITE ENVIRONMENTAL HANDICAPS. THE SUBJECTS WERE TEN "GOOD" AND TEN "POOR" ACHIEVERS FROM THE FOURTH GRADE IN A SCHOOL LOCATED IN A SEVERELY DEPRESSED URBAN AREA. THE CHILDREN WERE CHOSEN ON THE BASIS OF ACHIEVEMENT SCORES AND TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS.…

A followup study (to ED 011 018) was conducted to obtain data concerning the impact of the 1966 Summer Institutes program on the subsequent classroom activities of the participants. The Institutes had been designed to improve the quality of instruction in public and nonpublic schools in disadvantaged areas of New York City by providing for the…

The Family Education Project in Brooklyn was designed to involve selected volunteer families of children enrolled in Head Start. The original proposal foresaw a project of three years' duration, with three separate groups of families participating, so that comparative measurements could be taken on the children in each cycle, as well as on the…