From 2,000 to 3,000 ninth- and tenth-grade students in New York City, mostly black and Puerto Rican, were selected for an intensive educational program (small classes, double sessions of English, group and individual counseling, and cultural enrichment) with the hope that they would remain in the program throughout high school and then pursue…

In the summer of 1967 an eight-week session entitled Programs to Excite Potential (Project PEP) was held at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York for approximately 150 disadvantaged urban junior high school students. These students were drawn from ten urban areas throughout the state. The criteria upon which the participants were chosen were…

The stated purposes of this Head Start project were to provide deprived children with experiences designed for cultural enrichment, to improve personal health, to encourage social and emotional growth, and to develop mental competencies. This report provides information on the various activities undertaken in the project, personnel preparation and…

An anthology of Japanese literature, supplemented with historical, religious, and artistic facts and concepts and accompanied by a teacher's guide, was designed to explore how selected translated literature of non-Western countries might be studied in the high schools to further intercultural understanding. The original selections were revised by…

A Cultural Enrichment Project (CEP) in the Detroit public and parochial schools reached 100,000 disadvantaged pupils and offered about 50 different program events. This evaluation of CEP is based on ratings by teachers, attendance figures, and a cost per pupil analysis. It was found that all but three of the events received teacher ratings of…

Two final reports, winter 1968-1969 and summer 1969, respectively describe the sixth and seventh sessions of the Cambridge School Department's After School Center Program and involving six elementary schools. Both the winter and the summer programs were designed to give disadvantaged children remedial instruction in reading and mathematics along…

Each academic year since its inception in 1965, the Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) program has provided a remedial language and intensive counseling program to 100 disadvantaged ninth-grade students. The goal of the program is to improve the language skills, self-concept, and school adjustment of disadvantaged students having no serious emotional…

A two-year project established to develop a kindergarten-primary curriculum to help all children become aware of significant aspects of Black culture and learn to confront the problems they will face living in an integrated society is presented. The program was designed in four phases. Phase I concerned itself mainly with collecting resources and…

WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY INITIATED A PROJECT TO DETERMINE THE CULTURAL NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF THE AREA IT SERVES. IN PHASE ONE, CITY AND COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES ATTENDED A SYMPOSIUM ON ART, MUSIC, LIBRARY, LECTURE, AND THEATER RESOURCES AND FORMED A REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT. PHASE TWO WAS A WORKSHOP TO HELP COUNCIL…

THE AIMS OF THE MCKINLEY SCHOOL WERE TO INCREASE ACHIEVEMENT IN BASIC SKILLS, TO ENRICH AND ENLARGE THE EXPERIENTIAL BACKGROUND OF THE CHILDREN, TO ESTABLISH A CLOSER LIAISON BETWEEN THE SCHOOL, THE HOME, AND THE COMMUNITY, TO DISCOVER LATENT TALENT, AND TO DEVELOP POTENTIAL IN AN ATTEMPT TO RAISE EACH INDIVIDUAL'S SELF-IMAGE. THE TEACHERS'…

AFTER 5 MONTHS OF EXISTENCE, THE THIRD GRADE PROGRAM WAS EVALUATED. ITS PURPOSE WAS TO RAISE THE CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND VOCATIONAL SIGHTS OF ALL PUPILS THROUGH CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT, REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION, TEACHER WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS, IDENTIFICATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF TALENT, GUIDANCE AND PARENT WORKSHOPS, AND COUNSELING. TEACHERS HAVE A…

Evaluations of ESEA Title I activities are presented in separate sections of this report. Included are information on the objectives, procedures, and evaluation strategy of each activity, presentation of data, and comments about results. Programs were developed for delinquent and neglected children, art instruction and education, physical…

The Summer School beginning the second year of the three-district, cooperative project was administered by the Saginaw, Michigan, Intermediate School District. The program had two objectives: to field test three curriculum packages dealing with Woodland Indian Social Studies-Language Arts, and to "provide for the special needs of Indian…

This booklet explores the advantages and drawbacks in the employment of artists as teachers at all educational levels. Until recently, arts professionals did not want to hinder their creative work by confining themselves to the place and time of a school situation. Schools generally sought to hire those who wanted education as a career. In 1969…

This evaluation determines program effectiveness based on the program's stated objectives in order to make recommendations to strengthen ESEA Title I programs, and to provide a data base that could be useful in decision-making and management. Data collected include both field data and previous evaluation data. Major findings and recommendations in…