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Compensatory Education for the Disadvantaged
Compensatory Education is the term used for programs and special services intended to compensate for a complex of social, economic, and educational handicaps suffered by disadvantaged children.
One of the first compensatory education programs began 10 years ago in New York City with the project that later became known as Higher Horizons. Today there are local programs supported by both public and private funds, as well as statewide and national projects. Some examples of the national programs are Project Head Start for preschool and children and Upward Bound for students planning to attend college.
This book, the result of a research project sponsored by the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, contains an up-to-date digest, analysis, and critical evaluation of nationwide preschool through college programs of compensatory education for the disadvantaged. In addition to identifying the disadvantaged (of all races and national origins) and describing the programs, the authors discuss such vital subjects as the reasons for compensatory education; teacher recruitment, preparation, and inservice training; curriculum innovation; the role of parents and the community; the inadequacies of existing thought and action on overall approaches to eduction for the disadvantaged; and the challenges for the future. Also included in this volume is a comprehensive 101-page "Directory of Compensatory Practices" containing city-by-city, area-by-area outlines of past and present programs.
One of the first compensatory education programs began 10 years ago in New York City with the project that later became known as Higher Horizons. Today there are local programs supported by both public and private funds, as well as statewide and national projects. Some examples of the national programs are Project Head Start for preschool and children and Upward Bound for students planning to attend college.
This book, the result of a research project sponsored by the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, contains an up-to-date digest, analysis, and critical evaluation of nationwide preschool through college programs of compensatory education for the disadvantaged. In addition to identifying the disadvantaged (of all races and national origins) and describing the programs, the authors discuss such vital subjects as the reasons for compensatory education; teacher recruitment, preparation, and inservice training; curriculum innovation; the role of parents and the community; the inadequacies of existing thought and action on overall approaches to eduction for the disadvantaged; and the challenges for the future. Also included in this volume is a comprehensive 101-page "Directory of Compensatory Practices" containing city-by-city, area-by-area outlines of past and present programs.
299 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1966
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