Conquest is a laboratory project for first-grade repeaters and for students in second grade through sixth grade who have difficulty in reading. It features an individualized, eclectic approach made possible by low student/teacher ratios and by a wide variety of materials and equipment. Instructional and diagnostic procedures are highly structured,…

Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI), like other reading programs, does work, but only for certain teachers and with certain youngsters. On the positive side, IPI sets up a series of steps that allow the teacher to know where the child is and in what direction he is going. It enables the teacher to know his subject matter well, and enables…

This periodical is designed to disseminate information pertaining to exemplary innovative programs in Cook County, Illinois. Programs discussed in this issue are: (1) a child care program for female high school students; (2) interpretation of history-literature, a class for gifted sophomores; (3) pre-kindergarten service to children with…