In order to insure maximum success of the school's Head Start program, parents and teachers associated with a public school in Harlem chose a program based on the Interdependent Learner Model Follow Through Program originated at New York University. The federally funded program was introduced into kindergarten and first-grade classrooms and…

The Perceptual Development Center was established in 1967 through ESEA Title III funds to provide diagnostic and remedial services for reading disabled elementary-school students. Concentrating on dyslexic students, the program includes a demonstration center, a diagnostic program, inservice training programs, and community education.…

This paper reports an experimental evaluation of the effect of increased parental participation on the education of youngsters in a depressed area. There were four subject groups of children: 263 first graders in attendance during the 1966-67 school year, prior to the parent involvement program; 261 first graders attending during the experimental…

The Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project was an experiment to assess the longitudinal effects of a 2-year preschool program designed to compensate for functional mental retardation found in some children from disadvantaged families. The program consisted of a daily cognitively oriented preschool program and home visits each week to involve mothers in…

The Tacoma Public Schools Early Childhood Program is a comprehensive effort to give economically disadvantaged children an early education program which will have continuity and long-range effectiveness. Involving 5 years of education (3-year-olds through grade 3), the program uses the Responsive Environment Model, which has as its objectives the…

The Plus Program was designed to provide a maximum amount of remedial work in reading and mathematics for disadvantaged youth in grades 1-8. About 75 percent of the project pupils were black, 20 percent white, and 5 percent Puerto Rican. Specially trained teachers worked with small groups of students in programs designed to be corrective and…

A consortium program for Advanced Study in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages, funded by the U.S. Office of Education and sponsored by the N.Y. Board of Education in cooperation with the Research Foundation of City University of New York, was held in the summer of 1968 in four local colleges: (1) Brooklyn College of City…

This four-section report is an evaluation of educational programs in the state of Connecticut. The major achievements listed as made possible are: 30 programs for children of preschool age, 80 additional summer programs for deprived youth, special instructions in basic skills for the latter children, increased special language assistance for…

In this evaluation report, special attention is given to Elementary and Secondary Education Title I activities conducted by local educational agencies in the major urban areas of New York State, and to those conducted by the New York City Board of Education and its decentralized districts. The nine-part report, which presents specific data…

The purposes of this study were (1) to investigate the influence of anthropomorphic models as a therapeutic vehicle to help 5-year-old Indian children to appropriately handle, and thereby decrease, physical and verbal aggression, and (2) to investigate the influence of group counseling with Indian mothers as it affects agression in their preschool…

The Reach-Out Program served as an enriched guidance service for potential dropouts. It sought, by closer contact with the home, to improve pupil attitude, attendance, punctuality, and reading competence and to make pupils and parents aware of those services available in school and community that would facilitate learning and maturity. The program…

This document presents the preliminary analysis and findings of the first three parts of the Family and Community Impact Study designed to investigate the influences of day care on families and communities in Pennsylvania. The three reports discuss: (1) parent participation in day care and the relationship between the use of day care facilities…

This report examines the Family Cognitive Profile Study which provided for the collection and analysis of data regarding the IQ gains of children enrolled in the Mother Child Home Program (MCHP). The existence of siblings among the subjects of the MCHP was noted by the Verbal Interaction Project (VIP), the research organization responsible for…

Based on one school district's project for the the 1973-74 school term, this report covers the activities of 10 rural North Carolina schools involved in an Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, reading laboratory program during its fifth year of operation. Contents of the report include an analysis of the district's needs, a sketch of…

Parental decisionmaking is the keystone of any voucher model. This paper examines the parental decisionmaking process as it has unfolded in the educational voucher experiment in the Alum Rock school system near San Jose, California. The author assumed at the outset that parents cannot make intelligent choices between schooling alternatives if they…