One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program, begun in 1972, serves about 2,200 disadvantaged high school students, most of whom are black or Spanish-speaking, in three New York City high schools. The program's main goals are twofold--the early identification and remediation of reading disabilities through the use of study skills centers, and ongoing teacher training, stressing on-the-job training of teachers in all content areas. The remedial approach employs reading centers, diagnostic-prescriptive techniques, programmed learning multimedia materials, and individualized contracts. Materials are self-directing and self-correcting, and students chart their own progress. Training of teachers in the content areas is accomplished by a system of assists: the content area trainee assists a more fully trained teacher in the reading laboratory and is in turn assisted by a master reading teacher in his or her own classroom. At each school, paraprofessionals are trained in workshops, on the job, and in a series of conferences with the reading coordinator. Parents are involved in a variety of ways, including serving on a task force and working as paraprofessionals. (TO/AIR)