The purpose of the LARC (Language Acquisition Resource Center) project is to implement a home-based program which will help children of ages six months to five years develop communication skills. The program is designed for children of all socioeconomic groups, although it has been set up by the Center for Urban Education (CUE) as a pilot program…

This publication contains information gained from a survey of 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico concerning programs for handicapped and disadvantaged students. Arranged alphabetically by state, 51 handicapped and 51 disadvantaged programs are described in terms of: (1) program objectives, (2) program funding, (3) student…

This paper is a discussion of a Career Exploration Project jointly undertaken by the Seal of Ohio Girl Scout Council and the Division of Continuing Education of Columbus Technical Institute during the Summer of 1975. The participants were economically disadvantaged young women between the ages of 11 and 17. The main objective was to increase…

Reviewed are the highlights of the past 20 years in the author's search for understanding what might be done about the creativity of gifted minority/disadvantaged children. (BD)

Describes one of California's compensatory education efforts, the diagnostic/prescriptive/individualized mathematics program at Franklin Junior High School in Long Beach, where the majority of the students are transient, minority background, and from welfare families. Value of the program is shown by the fact that Franklin students who had been…

Overviews four demonstration programs developed out of a recently enacted federal youth employment act: The Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC), The Youth Community Conservation and Improvement Projects, The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects, and Youth Employment and Training Programs. (EM)

The U.S. Office of Education offers special programs that encourage and open the way for talented students with economic, cultural, and educational handicaps to finish high school and continue into postsecondary study. Three special programs, Talent Search, Upward Bound, and Special Services for Disadvantaged Students, were described. (Author/RK)

Drawing from organizational communications and management information systems (MIS), the authors make a bridge to the field of vocational education and present both a representative information problem and solution. (Editor)

The "Explore the Beach" program, which provides inner-city children from day care centers and day camps in New York City the opportunity to observe the marine environment, is described. A description of the marine science curriculum at John Dewey High School is presented. (BT)

The Center for Vocational and Technical Education reviewed 26 career education programs in operation in various sections of the U.S., finding seven components common to most of them: cooperative education, career guidance, placement, follow-up, programs for disadvantaged and/or handicapped youth, and in-service teacher education. (JM)

Summarizes rationale for early childhood educational intervention efforts and describes the Carolina Abcedarian Project: a longitudinal, early educational program providing supplemental preschool experiences designed to prevent the cumulative and progressive decline in intellectual and socially adaptive behavior shown by children from extreme…

A vocational training program for disadvantaged and handicapped young people provides courses presented in seven mobile trailers and five locations. Prevocational courses for special needs students are given in maintenance and repair, food services, electrical assembly, commerical sewing, and other occupational areas. Advanced training is…

The counselor's role in alternative schools is discussed in terms of personal counseling, educational guidance, career guidance, assessment, and nontraditional guidance techniques. (Author/HLM)