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IMPROVING THE READING AND WRITING SKILLS OF CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED COLLEGE FRESHMEN. FINAL REPORT.
Download full textFORD, NICK AARON; TURPIN, WATERS E. – 1967
AN EXPERIMENT SOUGHT TO DETERMINE WHETHER SPECIFICALLY SELECTED READING MATERIALS AND SPECIALLY DEVISED INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGY WOULD MOTIVATE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED COLLEGE FRESHMEN AT A PREDOMINATELY NEGRO COLLEGE TO IMPROVE THEIR READING AND WRITING SKILLS, AND WHETHER THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDENTS WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY ACHIEVE AT A HIGHER LEVEL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, College Freshmen, Disadvantaged Youth
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The curriculum in this after school program for low income Negro and Puerto Rican elementary school (grades 2-6) consisted primarily of remedial reading and arithmetic, library training, homework assistance, and a "Special Potential Development Service" providing music, art, and health education. The volunteer students were accepted…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Arithmetic, Audiovisual Aids, Compensatory Education
PDF pending restorationGordon, Edmund W.; And Others – 1972
Funded in part by Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III funds and in part by the Atlanta, Georgia School System, Project Success Environment is now in Year Two of a three year program. A teaching technique of three components--a reinforcement system, a special classroom arrangement, and a success curriculum--the project premised that if…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Design, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
Stroup, Katherine L.; Anderson, Floyd L. – 1969
Prepared by an instructor and curriculum development specialist of the Minnesota Work Opportunity Center, this course is designed to train dropout and/or hard-core unemployed youth for occupations as aides or orderlies in hospitals and nursing homes. Each student enrolled in the program receives a personal orientation, and after demonstrating the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Course Descriptions
Decker, George; Anderson, Floyd L. – 1969
This course description was developed by educators for use at the Work Opportunity Center which was established to teach high school dropouts and hard-core unemployed youth. The objectives of this reading curriculum are to develop skills of retarded readers, further develop skills of adequate readers, and develop an appreciation for reading.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides
Briscoe, Albert J.; Anderson, Floyd L. – 1969
This course description was developed by educators for use at the Work Opportunity Center which was established to teach high school dropouts and/or hard-core unemployed youth. The ultimate objectives of this course are to prepare students for employment in dry cleaning occupations and to assist them in completing their high school graduation…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides
O'Neill, Robert; Anderson, Floyd L. – 1969
This course description was developed by educators for use at the Work Opportunity Center in teaching high school dropouts and hard-core unemployed youth. The ultimate objectives of the business education curriculum at the Center are to prepare students for employment in clerical occupations and to assist them in completing their high school…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Business Education, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Selakovich, Daniel – 1970
The object of this book is held to be to help teachers in the difficult task of working with children who are experiencing various degrees of failure in the conventional secondary school social studies curriculum. The book has been written for inservice teachers in every community where such problems exist and for students interested in teaching…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Appel, Yetta; Berken, Ruth R. – 1969
This project for pregnant school age girls is an ESEA Title I program operating in five facilities in Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn. The primary objective of the project was to assist pregnant school age girls complete their education by being able to attend school. Additional objectives included provision of information and training in personal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Care, Day Care, Disadvantaged Youth
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1970
Prepared for a White House Conference on Children (December 1970), this report describes the Corrective Reading Program of Wichita, supported in target areas by funds from ESEA Title I and considered an effective large-scale remedial program which operates in the public schools. Special classes are held in each school building in which the program…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Compensatory Education, Comprehension, Corrective Reading
Johnson, Kenneth R. – 1967
The sixth in a series of teacher education units continues a discussion of specific problems faced by teachers of disadvantaged students. Stressed in this document are the teacher's role in working with the parents of these students. Also discussed are compensatory programs and those which use a curriculum content relevant to and derived from the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
Davis, A. L., Ed. – 1969
This report is designed to aid the college instructor preparing prospective English teachers in the area of dialect studies. It includes a general description of the nature of dialect, teaching suggestions, and an extensive annotated bibliography. The articles which make up the report are as follows: "Historical, Regional and Social…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth
Riessman, Frank – 1968
The program outlined in this proposal describes various teaching techniques which are suited to the styles and strengths of disadvantaged students. The general approach is directed at convincing the disadvantaged student that he can learn and become educated without becoming a middle class stereotype--that he can retain his own identity. A "New…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Inservice Teacher Education
Rainey, Ernestine W. – 1972
Presented is a language development program consisting of 30 mini-units to be used as the first formal daily activity with 5-year-old, educable, developmentally handicapped or environmentally disadvantaged children. It is explained that the required technique includes teacher questioning of one child, an elicited complete sentence response from…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities, Developmental Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Saskatchewan NewStart, Inc., Prince Albert. – 1971
The Life Skills course of Saskatchewan NewStart represents a serious attempt to integrate educational and psychotherapeutic principles and techniques for the development of personal competence in many areas of life. This is the third in a series of program approaches being tried on disadvantaged youth, and emphasizes the problem-solving process in…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
