This program was designed to improve reading skills and to provide intensive remediation for students in grades six through nine. Specialized materials and equipment were provided by Educational Development Laboratories (EDL). The EDL Reading Laboratory utilized the Learning 100 program, a multi-modality developmental and remedial program. Small…

THE PROCEEDINGS AT THE SECOND MEETING OF A READING CLINIC FOR PARENTS OF CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED YOUTH IS DESCRIBED. AT THE READING CLINIC THE PARENTS WERE INTRODUCED TO SEVERAL ACTIVITIES WHICH THEIR CHILDREN MIGHT TRY AT HOME IN CONNECTION WITH NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, THE TV GUIDE, AND OTHER SUCH READING MATERIALS. THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED…

A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF 50 YEARS OF REMEDIAL READING IS CATEGORIZED AND DISCUSSED. THE DECADE DIVISIONS ARE 1916-25, 1926-35, 1936-45, 1946-55, AND 1956-65. THE FIRST DECADE WAS CHARACTERIZED BY JOURNAL ARTICLES AND THE PUBLICATION OF SEVERAL BOOKS. DURING THE SECOND DECADE BATTERIES OF TESTS WERE STANDARDIZED FOR DIAGNOSING READING DIFFICULTIES.…

This document presents a description and evaluation of the Skills Remediation in Reading for Optional Assignment Program (TOPS) conducted for 4,569 students in 27 high schools in New York City. The participants were Title I optional assignment students in grades 9 through 12, whose reading ability was a minimum of two years below grade level based…

This project funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I, was designed to improve the mathematics skills of 328 males and females serving prison sentences or awaiting trial in the Rikers Island Penitentiary. For the male population exclusively, the project was designed to improve reading skills and English usage and comprehension. The…

Five hundred twenty-six second through sixth graders were identified as needing supplementary reading instruction, their specific needs were diagnosed, and intensive prescriptive instruction was provided. A lab oriented learning center environment was prescribed which included a listening/viewing center, a decoding center, a game center, a library…

The Ethnic Heritage Learning Center, designed to increase the reading skills of elementary students who are educationally and economically disadvantaged, is described in this paper. The major goal of the Center was to provide supplementary remedial reading instruction. In addition to the 250 students who were selected as a target group, the Center…

A total of 1,922 pupils participated in this Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act Program, which was designed to improve the reading and/or mathematics skills of the students. The program aimed to serve students in special schools or residential treatment centers in New York City who were in kindergarten through grade 12. The majority of…

This report describes and evaluates the bilingual program of the Auxiliary Services for High Schools (ASHS) Program in the New York City Schools for the 1974-75 school year. In 1974-75 there were 12 centers for this program distributed throughout all boroughs of New York City. Spanish was offered in nine of the programs, French in two, Greek in…

The 1974-1975 Reading Skills Center component of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I Remedial Services for Eligible Nonpublic School Pupils Program was designed to provide intensive diagnostic-prescriptive reading instruction for students in grades four through eight who had evidence of reading retardation in excess of two and one…

This project was aimed at correcting reading difficulties in first and second grades in order to prevent later reading retardation, and was implemented in 22 of the 26 school districts eligible to receive Title I funds. Evaluation procedures, personnel, implementation patterns, affiliated hospital and university plans, reading clinic plans, and a…

The Reading Skills Centers, funded under Title 1 of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, were designed to improve reading skills of the target population consisting of optional assignment children who were economically deprived and retarded in development of reading skills. Centers were operated in six elementary and one junior high…

A Diagnostic and Remedial Reading Center was organized at the District Office to service 160 pupils in District 22, Brooklyn, elementary schools who were diagnosed as non-learners. A total of 60 pupils were given remediation and therapeutic services four sessions a week during the regular school day. An additional 20 pupils received intensive…

One hundred eight children in grades two to four (ages 7 to 10) whose reading level was one to two years below grade level participated in this program. The Creative Reading Program for the Children's Art Carnival funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I had as its purpose the teaching of reading and other communication…

This paper provides a description and evaluation of the Ethnic Heritage Learning Resource Center, a program designed to provide a concentrated and personalized enrichment program of instruction to children showing severe reading deficiencies. Approximately 1,200 fourth and fifth graders drawn from eight schools in New York City participated. The…