This evaluation is focused on the actual operation and results of five decentralized projects. The following criteria were used in the selection of the specific projects examined: the projects would represent different categories of programs, different geographical areas of New York City, and different allocations in amount of the total budget.…

The manual is divided into 26 lessons aimed at discussing the functions of teacher aides; their relationship with the teachers and children, and the part they play in an educational system. Some of the topics discussed are: need for training teacher aides; training for partnership; role of public schools in American society; the role of the…

A study conducted in four Wisconsin secondary schools attempted to measure student abilities in evaluating verbal argument and to determine the grade level at which verbal argument concepts and skills should be appropriately taught. Seven tests, known as the Wisconsin Tests of Testimony and Reasoning Assessment (WISTTRA), were administered to 3000…

The annual mandatory evaluation of ESEA, Title I programs reports on compensatory education in California for the 1967-68 school year. The information is presented for suburban, urban, and rural school districts, remedial reading, inservice training, teacher aides, and summer schools. Also described are the programs for institutionalized neglected…

To determine whether children with below average intelligence who are motivation oriented (MO) are different in school achievement from those who are oriented toward hygiene (HO), 72 children (ages 12 to 17, IQ's 50 to 89) subjects were divided into four groups of 18 by intelligence and by orientation as determined by the Choice-Motivator Scale:…

A perspective on teaching the trainable mentally retarded is presented along with an approach to evaluating commercial materials with an accompanying outline for evaluation and an illustration of its use. A selected bibliography includes 41 professional references, 65 readings for professional growth, 30 curriculum guides, 16 references on…

Based on the assumption that skill in oral interpretation is essential to effective teaching of high school English, this study sought to describe a one-term course in oral interpretation that would be most compatible with the needs of the prospective secondary school English teacher. Therefore, a conference of speech and English educators (ISCPET…

The University of Missouri adult basic education (ABE) system, developed from the ABE laboratory with the help of Title III funds, consists of a series of subsystems designed to effect behavioral change in undereducated adults through an individualized flexible approach to learning. The subsystems of diagnostic testing; individual counseling,…

This study sought to determine characteristics of successful and unsuccessful students in a program of adult Indian basic, prevocational, and family life education conducted at the University of Montana. Subjects were 127 Indians from seven Montana reservations. They were divided into three groups; those who successfully completed the program;…

Because socialization in terms of language behavior is the pivot for all other socialization, great emphasis is being placed in the linguistic determinants of cognition, and the influence of parents' language on child language and cognition. The same life conditions that foster dialect differences may be presumed to lead to semantic differences.…

Sixteen partially seeing children in grades 1 to 8 who were enrolled in a special resource room program were slected for differential diagnosis; their characteristics as a group and as individuals were delineated. Tests administered were the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Wechsler Intelligence Scale…

In response to the research findings of Head Start programs, in particular, and of research in early childhood education, in general, this manual was created by the Kindergarten Study Group of the Cincinnati Public Schools to examine the kindergarten program. The purpose of this manual is to help teachers broaden and extend the learning of the…

Schools must attempt to identify and develop those gifted young people who, because of environment and background, are faced with limited opportunities for achievement. At Hunter College High School, New York City, a program was instituted in which"disadvantaged, but potentially gifted" students made up 25% of each entering seventh-grade class.…

Produced at a program planning workshop for experienced adult basic education teachers, this work furnishes a teaching guide and inservice teacher training guidelines for use in the Texas Adult Education program. First, academic and other statewide program goals are enumerated. Next, concepts and objectives, subject content, student and teacher…

The handbook is directed to teachers of economically and culturally deprived, Spanish-speaking migrant pupils having a limited command or a complete lack of English. Several suggestions are given for providing a wide range of opportunities for meaningful oral communication as a means of overcoming this obstacle and promoting the use of standard…