The authors of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" anticipated that a majority of school districts or schools would not be able to attain state and national achievement standards without assistance. Consequently, the Act created a major tenet known as Supplemental Educational Services (SES) programs to improve the learning outcomes of…

Describes research that examined (1) the extent to which cultural experiences are translated into levels of conceptualization behavior of experientially advantaged and disadvantaged Black children as evidenced by their performances on a pictorial problems-solving task, and (2) the extent to which experiential deprivation contributes to verbal and…