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Download full textFrost, Joe L. – 1968
A study of 3 schools in a severely impoverished rural Arkansas school district sought to determine the effects of an enrichment program initiated in one of the schools. Efforts were also made to determine and compare the achievement and resultant gains in intelligence, personality, and academic advancement of welfare recipient and non recipient…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education
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
