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| Jablonsky, Adelaide, Comp. | 1 |
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What Works Clearinghouse Rating
1969
First-grade Negroes and Caucasians from deteriorated city-center areas were tutored in reading by paraprofessional tutors whose behavior was tightly programed. The project was developed through several years of experimentation by Indiana University before being initiated in the Indianapolis Schools in 1965. Children were given 15-minute sessions…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
Cawley, John F.; And Others – J Negro Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Performance Criteria
Download full textAmerican Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1972
During Public School (PS) 115's 1969-70 academic year, a first-grade class of 27 disadvantaged, inner city youngsters received a special language arts program entitled Alpha One. Alpha One is a commercial initial reading program designed to teach first grade children to read and write sentences containing words of one, two and three syllables, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Reading
Howell, John F. – 1975
The effectiveness of an Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I preschool education program, which stressed listening habits and language skills, on disadvantaged children in kindergarten and first grade was examined. Graduates and nongraduates were administered The Boehm Test of Basic Skills and a teacher completed adjustment rating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Followup Studies
Lysiak, Floy L. – 1973
The purposes of this study were to determine (1) the long-range effectiveness on children's cognitive and affective development of 1, 2, and 3 years of the Central Cities Early Childhood Education Program; (2) how long preschool intervention must be continued to significantly alleviate special problems of disadvantaged children; and (3) the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Emotional Development
PLATTOR, STANTON D. – 1968
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO FIND OUT WHETHER OR NOT A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN PUPILS' ACADEMIC POTENTIAL (AS MEASURED BY A STANDARDIZED GROUP TEST OF INTELLIGENCE) COULD BE MADE AS A RESULT OF APPROPRIATE MODIFICATIONS OF THE TEACHING-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT TO MEET THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF DISADVANTAGED PUPILS. DEPRIVED NEGRO PUPILS AND THEIR TEACHERS IN…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement
Shore, Robert E. – 1974
This evaluation report for the Diagnostic and Prescriptive Reading Program provides program description and statistics for fiscal year 1974. Several sections listed as follows, constitute the report: project statistics, dissemination of project information and data, major problem areas, interrelationship of Title I with other federal and state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Jablonsky, Adelaide, Comp. – 1973
The third of the series of annotated bibliographies on doctoral research, this compilation focuses on early childhood education for the disadvantaged, concentrating on such issues as reading, parent involvement, teachers and paraprofessionals, summer programs, and the like in regard to Head Start programs; Follow Through programs; Negro dialects,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Patterns, Black Dialects, Childhood Attitudes
Shea, Joseph J.; Hanes, Michael L. – 1977
The investigators hypothesized that home environment variables--as measured by the Home Environment Review, administered upon entrance to kindergarten--account for the variance in children's reading achievement at the end of kindergarten, first, and second grade. One hundred fifty-three children representing a longitudinal, traced sample from two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
