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Schooling Disadvantaged Children

Schooling Disadvantaged Children: An Analysis

Authors Natriello, McDill, and Pallas thoroughly explore the situation of America's disadvantaged children and youth. They define the educationally disadvantaged as those who have insufficient experiences in either the family, the community, or the school (13). Some students lack love and basic physical support, and some have suffered lack of intellectual stimulation in the family, community, or school. These writers approach the problems of disadvantaged students through analysis. Their book, Schooling Disadvantaged Children, is essentially a thorough statistical analysis of the current conditions of disadvantaged students in U.S. schools with some predictions of future trends and policy implications.

The general tenor of the book is negative. There is a great emphasis on data and the specific programs that have not been successful in meeting the needs of our nations less fortunate children. Maternal and child health programs show the most promise for stemming the tide of developmentally disabled persons, but many of these programs do not meet the needs of teenaged mothers soon enough (49). Other programs that have limited success with children at the preschool age are Head Start, the Bereiter-Engelmann Academic Preschool Program and the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program. Head Start has not been successful in raising IQ's or long-term academic gains, but it has improved health conditions for the nation's disadvantaged children. The other preschool programs showed short-term gains for their children, gains which were lost in later years (68).

Compensatory elementary programs include Title I, Chapter 1, increased availability of kindergartens, DISTAR, individual tutoring, and computer assisted individual instruction. Disadvantaged youth may participate in extra summer classes, Upward Bound, Job Corps, and alternative schools. The authors contend that these programs are ...

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