The current study explores the efforts of one summer youth employment program to provide students with meaningful work experiences and the participants' perceptions of the meaningfulness of their work and its effect on their future orientation. Most of the students in the study were under the age of 18. The Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Summer…

CHILDREN WHO LIVE IN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, OR EDUCATIONAL IMPOVERISHMENT ARE HINDERED IN THEIR ABILITY TO DEVELOP PROPERLY. ONE APPROACH, TO CORRECT DISABILITIES AND FACILITATE INTELLECTUAL GROWTH, IS TO START INSTRUCTION AT AN EARLIER AGE THAN THAT OF KINDERGARTEN. IN THE PRESCHOOL CLASSES, THE CHILDREN WOULD RECEIVE CULTURAL ENRICHMENT AND SOCIAL…

Workable ways to correct the lack of communication and isolation of many American Indian students on campuses. (IR)

This publication contains the evaluation forms sent by the Florida State Department of Education to school administrators, staffs of other agencies, similar staffs in other states, and parents of disadvantaged children served by Title I programs. Sample responses are given and results summarized. A section is included on in-patient treatment of…

REGULAR MAIL ORDER CATALOGS MAY BE USED AS A SOURCE OF MATERIAL FOR TEACHING MANY PRACTICAL LESSONS TO GROUPS OF STUDENTS WHO MAY BE POTENTIAL DROPOUTS. A UNIT CENTERING ABOUT THE USE OF SUCH CATALOGS WAS DEVELOPED IN A CLASS OF STUDENTS 14 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER BUT STILL IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. LOOKING UP AND ORDERING ITEMS FROM A CATALOG CAN…

THE ADDITION OF A TEACHER-ASSISTANT (TA) PROVIDED A RICHER ENVIRONMENT AND CURRICULUM RESULTING IN A HIGH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY GAIN FOR THE CULTURALLY DEPRIVED KINDERGARTENER. AFTER SIX ORIENTATION SESSIONS AND A WEEK OF OBERVATION, A TA WAS ASSIGNED AS A SECOND TEACHER TO ONE OF THREE MORNING AND THREE AFTERNOON KINDERGARTEN SESSIONS AT THE THREE…

Outlines a procedure for introducing Negro college pre-freshmen to such new cultural experiences as the opera. (JM)

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…

THIS BULLETIN OUTLINES THE BACKGROUND OF PROJECT ABLE, AS A GUIDE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS WISHING TO PLAN AND PROPOSE AN ABLE PROJECT. ABLE IS A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WHICH DEVELOPS, TESTS, AND DISSEMINATES PRACTICES TO IDENTIFY AND HELP CAPABLE PUPILS FROM LOWER SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS. THE OBJECTIVES ARE--(1) INTENSIVE REMEDIAL, INSTRUCTIONAL,…

Federally financed art programs were established in five Baltimore County schools in 1967 to provide additional art classes for culturally deprived pupils. (DS)

AS PART OF THE GREAT CITIES PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT, THE BUFFALO PROJECT WAS DESIGNED TO ATTACK THE SOCIAL INERTIA, LOW DEGREE OF INTEREST, ACHIEVEMENT AND PROGRESS, AND UNINSPIRED MOTIVATIONAL PATTERNS CHARACTERISTIC OF CHILDREN FROM A COMMUNITY LOW ON THE SOCIOECONOMIC SCALE. THIS WAS SOUGHT THROUGH AN ENRICHED SCHOOL PROGRAM OF TEACHING,…

THE EAGLE PROGRAM AT WANAMAKER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN PHILADELPHIA IS BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT HUMAN BEHAVIOR CAN BE MODIFIED. CULTURAL ENRICHMENT OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN SHOULD THUS EFFECT A CHANGE IN THE ASPIRATIONAL, ACHIEVEMENT, AND ADJUSTMENT PATTERNS WHICH THEY TEND TO FOLLOW. AIMS OF THE PROGRAM ARE TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL,…

IDENTIFICATION AND STIMULATION WERE ATTEMPTED FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WHOSE DEPRIVATION WOULD TEND TO KEEP THEIR ABILITIES FROM BEING RECOGNIZED. IT WAS HOPED THAT THE PROGRAM WOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR MANY MORE SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE TO GO ON TO HIGHER EDUCATION. A MAJOR PROGRAM OF CULTURAL ENRICHMENT WAS PLANNED FOR THE PROJECT STUDENTS AND…

Social studies instruction dealing with Negro history should emphasize a positive approach to Negro problems. (CK)

Reports the results of a survey conducted to determine the conditions among minorities in the capital. Stresses the importance of culture and education in working with minorities if the eradication of traditional inequality among nationalities is to be eliminated. Concludes that many programs have been successful in developing educational programs…