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Download full textAnstrom, Kris – Directions in Language and Education, 1995
This report summarizes the results and impact of Title I and Chapter I reforms. In 1992-93, elementary and secondary students (n=6,403,054) participated in Chapter I in the United States; 17 percent of this population was limited English proficient (LEP). Although the program has helped many, educators and researchers have questioned the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups
Shapiro, Michael – 1993
The purpose of "Teach for America," a program modeled after the Peace Corps, was to recruit a cadre of bright college graduates to become uncertified teachers for two years in some of America's toughest schools. This book tracks the successes and failures of the program in its first year and presents the stories of seven idealistic corps…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Graduates, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth
Ferreira, M. C. Rossetti; And Others – 1983
A study was conducted to critically assess the developmental conditions of 187 children (ages 1 month to 6 years) in eight creches (day nurseries) located in and around Ribeirao Preto, Brazil. Data were collected through informal interviews of day care staff and from 20 hours of direct observations of day care units. Findings indicated inadequate…
Descriptors: Action Research, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Cognitive Measurement
COLEMAN, JAMES S. – 1967
THIS STUDY POSES THE QUESTION OF HOW TO MEASURE THE DEGREE OF INEQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR SUBGROUPS IN SOCIETY. IT EXAMINES AND REJECTS THE DOMINANT IDEA THAT EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IS PROVIDED BY A COMMUNITY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES WITH FREE AND OPEN ACCESS FOR ALL, SUBSTITUTING THE IDEA THAT IT IS THE INTENSITY…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Experience, Educational Background
Urban Systems Research and Engineering, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1972
As the final part of a three-volume study, this review focuses on housing as an instrument of environmental change with particular emphasis on socioeconomic rather than physical dimensions. Three literature orientations relating to the effectiveness of intervention in the lives of the poor are used for review. They are (1) literature that is…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Disadvantaged Environment, Environmental Influences, Literature Reviews
Soldahl, Thomas A. – 1971
This pilot project was designed to assist high school counselors working with lower socioeconomic Spanish-speaking students to develop more effective vocational counseling programs based on identification of the environmental constructs that influence vocational decisions of Mexican-American youths. Data were collected from interviews with…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Decision Making
Bullen, Gertrude F. – 1970
A determination as to whether more positive attitudes toward reading could be developed in elementary school children who, because of economic and cultural factors, had limited experience with books was sought in this study. Children from nonreading backgrounds were selected to take part in a books exposure program which supplemented the school's…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Basic Reading, Disadvantaged Environment
Wolfram, Walt – 1969
This paper examines and evaluates 11 ERIC documents dealing with the manner and extent to which nonstandard dialects differ from standard English. The relative importance of each document to the issue is implicit in the comments concerning that article. The author presents and explains the deficit and difference models of explicating language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Dialect Studies
Williams, Trevor – 1973
The concern of this investigation lies with the development and estimation of models explaining children's intellectual variability. Specifically, attention is directed to: (a) the role of parental status attainments and family environments in the transmission of intellectual advantage-disadvantage across generations; (b) the possibility that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Diagnosis, Environmental Influences
Reynolds, Richard J. – 1972
Piaget's notions about schema retention were examined using a sample of 384 disadvantaged four, five, and six year old children from a wide geographical area. The purpose was to examine the idea that schemas may be destroyed or modified by specific methods of interference using a retroactive inhibition model. Pictorial scenes were generated and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes
Deutsch, Cynthia P. – 1972
The determination of the relationships among auditory discrimination ability, social class and age group differences, reading skill ability, and visual perceptual skills was the objective of this study. Fifteen New York City public schools provided 180 first, third, and fifth grade white and black males from lower and middle socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Beginning Reading, Cultural Differences
Dwyer, Robert C.; And Others – 1972
A total of 160 five-year-old children from Head Start-eligible families were assigned to two treatments during a 6-month Head Start program. The experimental group received the Environmental Academics Program for one to one and a half hours per school day, and the ongoing Head Start program for the balance of the day. The control group received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Environment
BRESSLER, MARVIN; WILCOX, PRESTON – 1966
A SUMMER PROGRAM WAS CONDUCTED FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTHS TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES OF CREATIVE THINKING AND EXPRESSION, WIDE EXPLORATION, FREE QUESTIONING, AND SELF-ESTEEM DEVELOPMENT. FORTY HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE BOYS (PREDOMINATELY NEGRO) WERE COUNSELED, GUIDED, AND INSTRUCTED IN SUCH SUBJECT AREAS AS LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. THE RESEARCH…
Descriptors: Black Students, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Disadvantaged Environment
Fernandez, Raquel – 2001
This paper examines the literature in the growing field of education and inequality that is concerned with how individuals sort, and the consequences of this knowledge for the accumulation of human capital, equity, efficiency, and welfare. It argues that how individuals sort across neighborhoods, schools, and households (spouses) can have…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Shuptrine, Sarah C.; Hartvigsen, Kristine – 2000
The Southern Institute on Children and Families is an independent, nonprofit public policy organization founded in 1990 to improve opportunities for children and families in the South with a focus on disadvantaged children. This annual report presents the accomplishments and activities of the organization for 1999. The introductory letter from the…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Annual Reports, Child Welfare, Disadvantaged Environment
