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Download full textChoury, Elmer C. – 1969
The project described here is designed to measure the effectiveness of an intensive attempt at totally individualizing instruction to upgrade instructional programs in two elementary schools with the highest concentration of disadvantaged students in the county. The goal of the project is to achieve a system which will allow each student to…
Descriptors: Children, Classes (Groups of Students), Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement
National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1968
The work of four task forces on human deprivation is reported. Aspects of deprivation treated include psychosocial deprivation and personality development; influences of biological, psychological, and social deprivations upon learning and performance; socialization and social structure; and biological substrates of development and behavior. For…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged
Clarizio, Harvey F. – 1969
Contained in the text are four readings on mental health and the schools, five on childrens' problems in developing, five on social and emotional aspects of educational adjustment, five on cognitive development and mental health, and five on group aspects of classroom functioning. Six articles concern students with special needs, five discuss…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Child Development
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1968
Papers presented at this conference discussed the educational evaluation and the problems of the socially disadvantaged. Topics were: "The Comparative Field Experiment: An Illustration from High School Biology," by Richard C. Anderson; "Evaluation of Teacher Training in a Title III Center," by Ethna R. Reid; "Evaluating a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Biology, Cost Effectiveness
Hawkridge, David G.; And Others – 1969
The principal aims of this study were to identify, select, analyze, and describe educational programs for culturally disadvantaged children from preschool through grade 12 which had yielded measured benefits of cognitive achievement. A literature search (mainly through ERIC) and mail inquiries followed by telephone consultations constituted the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Black Students, Cognitive Ability
Scott, Ernestine; Love, Doris – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Miller, Bernard W. – 1974
A proposed project will attempt to alter the attitudes toward disadvantaged urban children which are held by students in an elementary teacher education program. There are both theoretical reasons and empirical evidence to indicate that filmmaking and film viewing are effective means of facilitating learning, interpersonal communication, emotional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Vogler, William H.; And Others – 1971
In this evaluation report, considerable analysis is devoted to the definition of program development in each of the three years of funding, as well as an evaluation of third year objectives attainment. Emphases include project history prior to 1970-71 and context definition, project inputs, fiscal and staff resources, and terminal product…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Career Planning, Community Involvement, Community Role
Victor, Jack; Coller, Alan R. – 1968
The Early Childhood Inventories Project (ECIP) was initiated to originate aptitude/achievement type inventories which could assess very specific behaviors of young children, particularly disadvantaged children. In practice these inventories are "non-specific" type criterion-referenced measures. This first aspect of the project involved…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Caldwell, Bettye M. – 1971
A description of the Kramer Project to improve the general welfare of children and families is given. The purpose of the project is to provide age-appropriate developmental guidance from early infancy through the end of childhood years. The school, located in the heart of Little Rock, Ark., provides an educational program for children from infancy…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Child Care, Child Development, Compensatory Education
Barnard, Douglas P. – 1972
The Mesa School District (Arizona) "Incentives Only" Project--carried out via a performance contract with the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity in 1970-71 through the Mesa Education Association (MEA)--is described in terms of rationale for the use of incentives, background, program procedures, the incentives model, the delivery system,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, American Indians, Anglo Americans
Gibson, William M. – 1971
This guide includes 18 units, special teaching instructions, a brief history of legal assistance, a multimedia resource guide, and a list of democratic principles which are stressed repeatedly in the units. The units employ the case approach to illustrate legal issues for class problem solving. Facts, issues and laws are chosen on the basis of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Citizenship, Civil Liberties
Quillian, Benjamin F., Jr.; Rogers, Kathryn S. – 1972
This survey, representing a wide spectrum of teaching strategies and educational outlooks, is the result of a number of requests to the National Program on Early Childhood Education (NPECE) for a concise description of a variety of tested programs for young children that can be installed by local communities. A requirement of these programs was…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Nimnicht, Glen P. – 1969
This is the final report of the New Nursery School Project, a program for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old educationally disadvantaged children. Objectives of the program are to help children develop a positive self-image, increase sensory and perceptual acuity, improve language skills, form certain concepts essential for later learning, and develop the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques, Disadvantaged Youth
US House of Representatives, 2005
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2123) to reauthorize the Head Start Act to improve the school readiness of disadvantaged children, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. Amended sections include:…
Descriptors: Family Needs, Disadvantaged Youth, Cognitive Ability, Prereading Experience
