This working paper examines the approaches, wisdom, and experience generated by the ChalleNGe program, as well as the vast storehouse of knowledge and research, models and systems possessed by the military services that are potentially applicable to educating and developing youngsters who are at greatest risk of academic failure, economic…

This collection of articles on compensatory preschool education is chiefly the result of a conference at the University College of Swansea, Wales, during the Easter vacation of 1969. Articles include the following: (1) "Compensatory education and the infant school"; (2) "Compensatory programmes and early childhood education in the…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the American response to an IBE questionnaire. The main problems in the relationship between social background and school achievement are how to ensure equality of educational opportunity in all 50 states, raising educational standards and improving the quality of schools…

This bibliographic guide to the literature on equal education throughout the world contains over 40,000 references. It is arranged in 22 subject categories: the education of minorities in the United States (in general and by minority group); schooling issues (staffing and organization and multicultural education); economic, social, political and…