The Homework Helper Program with 100 centers in New York City, serving 1500 tutors and 4500 tutees, helps both tutors and tutees. Tutors (disadvantaged secondary school students) are paid $1.50-$2.00 an hour which helps them stay in school and gives them experiences of "success." Tutees (fourth, fifth, and sixth grade pupils performing…

The 1968-69 winter session of the Program to Excite Potential (PEP), funded by the New York State Urban Education Program, included 45 ninth and tenth grade New York City students who were identified as underachieving, disadvantaged, and having sufficient talent to warrant further musical instruction. The program, housed at the Riverdale School of…

This report evaluates the United Neighborhood Houses Neighborhood Youth Corps Program (New York City) which provides work experience, remediation and counseling services for approximately 150 high school dropouts from low-income families. Counseling services, remedial education, skill training, health services, and job placement are reviewed. Also…

This booklet features the success of New York Public School 129 in conducting its reading program for disadvantaged students. The principal of this Harlem school emphasizes primarily her role as head teacher and assigns a secondary place to her executive functions. Rather than stress such current innovative practices as heterogeneous groupings,…

To develop and operationalize a model job training-employment program which utilizes the Federal Civil Service system to provide job training and subsequent employment for hard-core youth, a 26-week pilot program was conducted for 18 female trainees. The training program consisted of a 2-week orientation followed by a 3-month classroom training…

A personal account by the music and drama teacher of the conflict surrounding a student production of Fiddler on the Roof" in a Brooklyn junior high school. (MC)

This volume presents the findings of the second year of a 3-year evaluation of Project Giant Step, focussing on the effects of the project on children, families, and staff. Begun in the fall of 1986, Project Giant Step is a half-day comprehensive program for 4-year old, low-income children and their families in New York City who are not served by…

THIS SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS WORKS ON THE PRESCHOOL EDUCATION OF THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD. GENERAL DISCUSSIONS OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION ARE FOLLOWED BY SEPARATE SECTIONS ON RELEVANT RESEARCH, DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIFIC PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS, AND REPORTS AND DISCUSSIONS OF PROJECT HEADSTART. THE MORE THAN 130 WORKS CITED INCLUDE JOURNAL ARTICLES,…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF ENVIRONMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS OF THE BEGINNING SCHOOL CHILD WAS EXPLORED. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS RESEARCH WERE TO DESCRIBE THE MAJOR DIMENSION THROUGH WHICH ENVIRONMENT IS LIKELY TO INHIBIT DEVELOPMENT AND TO SPECIFY THE AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN MOST INFLUENCED BY UNFAVORABLE ENVIRONMENTAL…

THE SCHOOLS SERVING DEPRESSED AREAS ARE FINDING IT INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO RETAIN TEACHERS AND TO ATTRACT ADDITIONAL TRAINED TEACHERS TO FILL INCREASING NUMBERS OF VACANCIES. SOCIOECONOMIC, ETHNIC, CULTURAL, AND EDUCATIONAL FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO DISADVANTAGEMENT ARE COMPOUNDED WHEN MET WITH THE OBJECTIVE SCREENING MEASURES FOR COLLEGE…

THIS REPORT PRESENTS A 1ST-YEAR SUMMARY OF THE COLLEGE DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INSTITUTED BY THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AND THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM. THE AIM OF THE LONGITUDINAL PROGRAM IS TO IDENTIFY DISADVANTAGED AND UNDERACHIEVING NINTH GRADERS AND TO DEVELOP THEIR COLLEGE POTENTIAL IN SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT…

BIOGRAPHICAL AND FICTIONAL MATERIALS ABOUT THE NEGRO WERE PREPARED FOR DISADVANTAGED NEGRO EIGHTH-GRADERS IN DEPRESSED AREA SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK CITY TO STUDY THEIR EFFECTS AND OVERALL IMPACT. THE EXPERIMENT WAS FOCUSED ON TEACHING A SINGLE UNIT, THE CIVIL WAR. APPROXIMATELY 180 STUDENTS IN 12 CLASSES PARTICIPATED IN THE TEST PROGRAM FOR A TOTAL OF…

Boys (165) and girls (139) in grades 3-6 in an almost entirely Negro Higher Horizons school in New York City were studied to determine the extent to which they differed in their aspiration to white-collar and professional occupations and in their ability to identify these occupations. The children were asked to make a choice among…

This report describes the findings of a study of an educational bus trip program for disadvantaged children. The participant schools are located in neighborhoods certified as poverty areas by the New York City Council Against Poverty. Data analyzed were gathered through questionnaires to teachers, parents, principals, and students. Recommendations…

Developed for use in a manpower development and training program, these curriculum materials include: (1) occupationally-related language arts and mathematics courses of study (Appendixes A-J), (2) occupationally-related remedial lesson materials for native born illiterates and non-English speaking trainees (Appendixes K-O), and (3) discussion…