This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves more than 11,200 disadvantaged students in kindergarten through grade 6. The children live in an inner-city area and come from low-income families. The program is individualized and objectives based. The basic reading skills to be learned from readiness to grade 8 are…

Consumer education and the differentiation between wants and needs is the focus of the third unit of the second grade Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (see SO 008 271). Activities center around five topics -- sources of income, how we know what to buy, how we develop wants, how we decide what to buy, and how we get more for less.…

In order to discover whether there were any inner-city elementary schools in Massachusetts which were successful in teaching children to read, a two-year study was undertaken. Results of the study, reported in this document, showed that there is no one pattern for success but that there is a process by which schools, either alone or in…

These studies were conducted to determine whether the introduction of media services and materials in elementary schools previously without them had significant impact on the instructional programs of the schools. Within each study, information is organized under: (1) community background; (2) school background information that affects the school…

In this study it was hypothesized that those students classified as conservers would score significantly higher on cloze passages related to the concepts of number, quantity, and volume than would those students classified as non-conservers. The subjects consisted of a group of 42 sixth grade urban public school students judged to be of low socio…

The major objective of this project was to develop a new social studies curriculum for the inner city. Specific needs were to be addressed in developing the new social studies: the need to be an agent for developing the intellectual skills necessary for citizens to assimilate and process information so that they can better aid in determining…

The Instructional Materials Center (IMC) originated in association with the development of a course to train teachers in specific techniques for teaching reading and the use of a wide range of multisensory reading materials. The major objective of the IMC project was to supply teachers with a wide variety of useful instructional materials for…

In 20 elementary schools participating in the Los Angeles School Preferred Reading Program, gains in reading achievement were examined in order to identify school and classroom policies that were most successful in raising reading scores of inner-city children. All schools sampled displayed large or consistent gains for sixth-grade reading…

Discusses her daughter's experiences as a minority white student in the District of Columbia public schools and relates them to national attitudes towards school integration and race relations, as well as to the differences in the conditions under which black and white children are raised. (JM)

Introduces a weekend science program for early childhood and elementary school students. Uses kites to teach about lightening as a source of electricity and aerodynamics. Includes directions on how to make a kite. (YDS)

Discusses challenges schools face with the increasing numbers of students from racial/ethnic minority groups and describes the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) act. Points out the impact of the myth that science and math are for white males only on females and minority students. Reports on a case study on the achievement gap of 3rd grade students in…

Describes school activities of two seven-year-old children (one rural, one urban) with low incidence disabilities. Finds similarities and differences in context and content of school activities, amount of engaged time, student heterogeneity, and in teacher training. Recommends research toward improving special education for low incidence disabled…

How Black and Hispanic students' perceptions of classroom instruction affects their academic achievement was studied. Black students' perceptions of their teachers' instructional time and structuring comments significantly explained their gain in reading achievement. Hispanic students' perceptions of their teachers' pacing significantly explained…

Provides a brief history and description of the male academy program in Detroit, Michigan; reviews the nature of the legal arguments advanced in this case; and identifies lessons to be learned regarding the fundamental legal, political, and policy issues associated with the male academy movement. (68 references) (MLF)