During the summer of 1969, Vicore, Inc. simultaneously conducted four classes in reading improvement skills for disadvantaged youth employed as Summer Aids at the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia. (Author/EB)

Describes the objectives, staff, orientation, program, evaluation and participant supervision of the Experienced Teachers Fellowship Program in Reading Instruction for Elementary and Junior High School Teachers at Loyola University, New Orleans. (MB)

An important objective of educators in the 1970's should be to help turn educationally deprived homes into homes that encourage and support learning achievement. (DB)

Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore) hired twenty inner city teenagers for an eight-week period, placing them under four college student program directors. (Author/JB)

The activities in an infant school in Great Britain are conducted in an unorganized fashion on the theory that children will learn best when they are learning what most interests them. (CK)

Operation Opportunity was a demonstration project sponsored by General Foods to hire disadvantaged high school students for summer jobs and to hold in escrow one dollar for every dollar earned for future education or vocational training at any approved institution. (BC)

A small sample of volunteer graduate students were randomly assigned to two treatment groups and a control group, to increase their ability to work effectively with specially admitted black students. Results are positive but should be viewed with caution. Need for further study is indicated. (CJ)

The relevancy of Mother Goose to ghetto children. (RM)

Study results cast doubt on the validity of a currently popular notion that ghetto children learn more readily when instruction is presented in familiar dialect. More study is needed before accepting Dialect as a language of instruction for black children. (Author)

The School for the Humanities of the New York City Summer Junior High Schools, having as its theme Contemporary Man, is described. (DB)