Evaluated was the effectiveness of primary pediatric care delivered to a sample of 250 low-income inner-city families. (Author/DB)

The Achievement Gap is the single most critical issue in Illinois education. This study graphically illustrates the difference in academic performance between low-income children and their peers, between minority children and their classmates, and between those schools that serve a majority of children from low-income families and those that serve…

Community visioning and strategic planning were studied as two forms of community engagement that could best address student academic achievement issues. Fifteen school districts were selected on the basis of engagement of internal (teachers, students, administrators) and external (parents, business leaders, and youth service organizations)…

This booklet is part of a series of reports on "hot topics" in education. When educators build on informal tutoring processes and create organized processes of tutoring, it can become a powerful tool for learning, whether it is peer tutoring, cross-age tutoring, or parent/volunteer tutoring. Tutoring benefits students, who receive…

It is now more than a hundred years since textbooks were first furnished free to the pupils of a public school in this country. The movement began in the administration of city schools and, generally speaking, was confined to cities for many years. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, made provision for free textbooks in its public schools in 1818, and…

An action research project to utilize the skills of high school business education students tested economic understanding (in budgeting, installment buying, and comparison of prices) of students in a school for disadvantaged boys and a public school. Business education students performed better than other students, but other differences were…

In Wisconsin, agricultural mechanics related to carpentry was chosen as the skill area around which to train Chippewa Indians on the Sand Lake Reservation in skills associated with home building and repair. The training was offered by Wisconsin Indianhead Technical Institute at New Richmond. (Author/DS)

Ten disadvantaged 3rd grade Ss were tested on their recognition of words judged to be either emotionally charged or or emotionally neutral, given instruction, and retested. (DB)

Evaluated were the articulatory deviances of 197 children previously identified as speech defective in relation to the socioeconomic and sociopsychologic status of the child's family. (DB)

Describes the Guggenheim Museum program, Learning to Read Through the Arts for Inner-City Children,'' funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, and run jointly with the New York City Board of Education. (JM)

Included in this feature section are selected articles on various aspects of the business education program. (AG)