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Scheiner, Louis – 1969
This study tested the Modern English Infant School Approach to teaching as a partial solution to the problem of properly educating the ghetto child. It was hoped that the approach could (1) improve achievement in reading and arithmetic, (2) improve ability in written composition, (3) improve students' attitudes toward self, the school, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Creative Thinking, Experimental Programs
Pierce-Jones, John; And Others – 1968
A short term preschool readiness program was designed in 1967 to employ nonpedagogically trained middle class mothers as teachers for preschool disadvantaged children. The children chosen for this study were 43 Mexican-Americans and five Negroes from lower class families. Three classrooms, consisting of 12 children and three mothers each, were…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Blacks