A project facilitated learning of disadvantaged students in 7th and 8th grade social studies classes through the presentation of visuals designed to vividy the presented subject matter. In a number of experimental classrooms teachers used approximately twice as many visuals in their living classrooms as in a number of control classes. Objectives…

The purpose of these four studies conducted during the 1967-68 academic year was to use the phrase reading programs in an exploratory manner with disadvantaged youth. Study 1 was an investigation of phrase reading development training with incarcerated male delinquents. There were 15 control subjects and 17 experimental subjects. The subjects in…

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…

This study was conducted to develop methods of providing effective vocational education for disadvantaged students in rural areas, including improvement in vocational educators' attitudes and teaching methods with respect to teaching the disadvantaged. A random sample of 20 rural high schools in northwest Michigan with less than 400 students in…

This volume is the second of a three-volume report of a national study whose primary objectives were to quantify resource utilization patterns of vocational education programs effectively serving special needs populations and to develop a methodology for estimating resources required to successfully serve these populations. It is a compendium of…

Evaluation of a project that provided flight instruction to inner-city junior high school students showed that former project youths are demonstrably better off than controls in the areas of employment, avoidance of deviant behavior, and advanced education. (MLH)

Stating that no vocational education program demands greater commitment from teachers than the work experience program, the author describes from personal experience with the Ohio Occupational Work Experience program the many roles of the teacher-coordinator in keeping the potential dropout in school and employed. (MF)

Relates various experiences that illustrate one teacher's way of dealing with teaching problems common in inner-city schools. (MLH)

Boys & Girls Clubs in New York City and Boston participated in a 3-year initiative to provide and enhance services to underserved teens. Researchers collected data via surveys of club members and staff; cost surveys of club administrators; interviews, focus groups, and observations at each club; and attendance information. Results indicated…

This publication presents essays written by seven young, urban, minority students participating in an intensive writing workshop given by What Kids Can Do in collaboration with the Margins to Mainstream project. The goal of the workshop was to coach students to create short essays suitable for use as a newspaper column, radio commentary, or…

New Jersey GEAR UP has met, or nearly met, its recruitment and retention goals beginning in 1999-2000 and sustaining cohorts through 2003-2004. Student participants are members of low-income families and communities in four urban locations with high unemployment rates and high numbers of children living in poverty. The evaluator finds that New…

The storefront school's value as change agent depends on its leaders attending to the key issues of ongoing funding, relationships with the public school system, cooperative arrangements with other alternative models, accountability, and power control. (JM)

Paper presented at the 1968 meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and printed in the New York State Education Department Monograph "Forum on Humanities, 1969.