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Download full textAmerican Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The Expanded Language Arts program aimed to increase the basic language skills of educationally disadvantaged children by decreasing class size and improving instructional materials. Students were drawn from a low income inner-city area of Buffalo and ranged in age from 11 to 19 years (grades 7-12). Fifty percent of the students spoke a Southern…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Expository Writing
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1975
Two studies are briefly reported here, one concerned with a method for locating high ability inner-city students, and the other dealing with a method of motivating low achieving inner-city students. Both studies drew on a population of black junior high school students, eighth and ninth graders, 14, 15, and 16 years of age. In the first study,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Black Students
