The North Carolina Advancement School was funded by the State of North Carolina in 1967 and charged with the task of conducting research into the causes of underachievement, and experimenting with approaches for its remediation. This is the sixth in the series of research reports. The subjects of the study were sixth-graders who participated in…

The potential relevance of psychology in the development of a program for training teachers of the disadvantaged is the focus of this report. Strategy employed to examine the psychology area consisted of: (1) a consortium, made up of five leaders in the field and a moderator; (2) an extensive search of contemporary literature, with abstracts of…

The potential relevance of social work in the development of a teacher training program for teachers of disadvantaged children is investigated. Outcomes of the investigation are presented in the following discussions: (1) the deliberations of a Social Work consortium; (2) a condensed version of the material abstracted in the literature search; (3)…

The Education Improvement Project (EIP) of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools serves as the assisting organization for two programs designed to improve educational practice for the marginal college freshmen - who is often a member of a minority or poverty group. The two programs are the College Education Achievement Project (CEAP),…

A teachers experience in teaching disadvantaged children to write creatively is described. Conclusions drawn are that teachers must learn to accept the language of the children; children should be allowed to invent the language by which they manage their own world; no arbitrary limits should be placed on the range of experience and language used…

This paper discusses the implications of the behavioral and social sciences as applied to minority group education. Various explanations for the failure of poor minority-group children in school are reviewed. A comparison between the mental health model of human behavior and the aggregate or systems model is made. [Because of the quality of print…

The auditory discrimination ability of pupils who are generally classified as "socioeconomically" or "culturally" disadvantaged is the subject of recent research. The concept of the disadvantaged child that has auditory discrimination difficulties--and associated with them problems in reading and perhaps even speaking--was quickly and widely…

This document presents a comparison of 1971 college freshmen who have been divided into the subgroups of veteran and nonveteran to determine differences in personal background and characteristics. The Student Information Form (SIF) was used to elicit information from the 171,509 respondents. Some of the findings of the study include: (1) Veterans…

A symposium/workshop presented by members of the Bi-Racial Identification Committee dealt with the identification of the gifted and creative among black disadvantaged groups. The presentations were: (1) "Creative Positives of Black Disadvantaged Children" by E. Paul Torrance; (2) "Creativity As It Is Related to Expanding Educational Opportunities"…

This report describes the development of a master plan for identifying and accommodating disadvantaged and handicapped students within the vocational education programs of the Virginia Community College System. The general project objectives reported on were: (1) to determine the potential number of disadvantaged and handicapped students by…

The intent of this report was to run a literature search to determine what had been learned about student services for the disadvantaged. The basic approach used for this study was one of designing a study that would experimentally obtain data on how disadvantaged students used and responded to selected student services. It was thought that data…

In an effort to capture the feeling of the operations of the Health Start projects, the experiences of eight of the 29 local projects organized in 1971, representative of the mix of approaches taken in the first year, are described, with emphasis on obstacles and strategies as well as successes. The projects reviewed are in Arkansas, North…

The Institute for Training Minority Group Research and Evaluation Specialists comprised 4 programs in 1: (1) a 6-week graduate course at New York University (NYU) during the 1970 summer session for 20 minority group persons that provided training in research design, statistics, data collection and analysis, and report writing; (2) a program of…

This report is an evaluation of the Head Start Program conducted for a period of 32 weeks within the Pontiac School District. A description of the program is followed by the results of a pre-post administration of a preschool inventory. (Author)

A PROGRAM IN LOW-INCOME AREAS IN MINNEAPOLIS PROVIDED THE SERVICES OF HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELORS TO GRADUATES AND DROPOUTS BY (1) OFFERING VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE TO UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES AND ACTIVELY ASSISTING IN JOB PLACEMENT, (2) ENCOURAGING THE RETURN OF DROPOUTS TO SCHOOL AND ASSISTING IN THEIR READJUSTMENT TO ACADEMIC LIFE, (3) ORGANIZING DATA ON…