The document presents the beginnings of a data base for educational policy and program planning at Northern Illinois University regarding the Spanish-origin population of its service area, and was compiled from numerous surveys conducted by various agencies, groups, and individuals. The quantitative description of the Spanish speaking presented…

Bounded on the west and south by Mexico and to the east by the Gulf, the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas is separated from the nearest U.S. urban center of any size by miles of flat and arid brushland. Its total population of approximately 335,000 is essentially composed of 2 groups--Mexican Americans and Anglos. Although the region is one of the…

The Florida Follow Through Model is one of several federally-funded experimental programs that attempts to modify the type of educational experience that children from low-income backgrounds receive during their first four years (K-3) of schooling. In the case of the Florida model, the emphasis is on home as well as school intervention. Two…

The investigation described in this study was a two part procedure which attempted to answer the general question: "Do the constructs of indecision and indecisiveness adequately describe disadvantaged individuals who experience difficulties in making a career decision?" The sampling was from a population of disadvantaged high school and college…

Poverty in New York City has been studied but never the specific problem of the Jewish minority groupings. The present study was geared towards presenting the incidences of poverty within the Jewish population in New York City and in presenting the beginning sociological picture of poverty among Jews. The study went through three phases. A first…

The project described herein represents an attempt by the U. S. Office of Education to take a more active role in the national dissemination and replication of those programs which have achieved the greatest success in producing reliably measured achievement benefits in reading and mathematical skills. With this general objective in mind, the U.…

This annotated bibliography is the seventh in the Doctoral Research Series. It encompasses doctoral research on "Special Secondary School Programs for the Disadvantaged" reported in "Dissertation Abstracts International" from 1965 through June 1973. The citations are arranged in the following categories: College Preparatory…

The staff at Forrest School developed the following program goals: (1) activities which will encourage pupil participation in planning the learning activities; (2) opportunities for pupils to develop self-expression and verbal communication with adults and peers; (3) activities designed to insure some degree of success; (4) encouragement and…

Decisions by individual women to seek employment outside the home are usually based on economic reasons. Most women in the labor force work because their families need the money they can earn--some work to raise family living standards above the low-income or poverty level; others, to help meet rising costs of food and education for their…

The subject of this paper is the schooling of children of the poor. In the past most children of the poor obtained very little education in the school; in fact it operated largely as a sorting agency for them. With the increasing demand for universal education, the schools and the public have become conscious of the schools' inadequacy in reaching…

The first section of the report (which is written in French) presents the ten recommendations of the commission which conducted the study to the Minister of Education, and the five principles on which the recommendations are based: (1) the adult's right to education, (2) the necessity of an integrated system of adult education, (3) the…

This program development document is submitted--at an intermediate stage of planning--to urge that NIE take certain action for improving education of the poor. Suggestions made are illustrative, not prescriptive. Problems are solved by action, not by speculation; but which Federal action to take is a matter for NIE development and research. After…

One of the problems scarcely touched upon by community college effort is the amelioration of poverty in the urban college area. Since financial incompetence creates in the poor an abject state of hopelessness that affects ability to function in other areas, it may be necessary to develop skills and improve competence in handling money and in…

Described is the Follow Through academic program based on the principles and materials (DISTAR) of S. Engelmann and W. Becker, and reported are results of program use over a 4-year period with 9,152 primary grade children (78 percent economically disadvantaged). The program description includes teaching procedures; program objectives; class…

As originally developed, Projecto Exito, often referred to as the Bilingual Community School or simply as "Escuelita," was in name and in deed a comprehensive community-based approach to the problems of bilingual education, funded under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. Intended to serve Spanish and…