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REF OR I RESUMES ED 011 017 UC D02 272 A BEI ER CHANCE, ANC EC',:CATIONAL FRCGRAM SFONSOEC et rARTMOuTH COLLEGE. By- DEy, CHARLES F. JACKSON, CAVIS CARTMCA.TH COLL., HANcrivi:;;, FOB CAIt 65 EDRS PRICE 14F-$0,18 HC-$4 04 101F. DEsCRIFTORS- SUMMER FROC,RAMS, *COLLEGE FREFARATION, FRIVATE SCHOOLS, SCHOLARSHIFS, *CISACvANTAGEC YOUTH, TUTORING, ENGLISH CURRICULUM, REACING PROGRAMS, MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM, *EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT, HANOVER A SUMMER FROGRAM OFFERED INTENSIVE ACACEMIC FREFARATION TO DISADVANTAGED BOYS wHO HAC RECEIvEC SCI -t.ARSHIFS TO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS. THE FROGRAM'S STRESS ON ENGLISH, READING, AND MATHEMATICS WAS MAINTAINED By CLOSE PERSONAL CONTACT BETWEEN STAFF ANC STUDENTS, SMALL CLASS SECTIONS, ANC INDIVIDUAL TUTORING. THE TUTORS LIVED WITH THE STUCENTS THROuGHOUT THE FRCGRAM ANC WERE THUS ADLE TO SPOTPOTENTIAL DIFFICULTIES ANC TO ACT TO RESOLvE THEM. THROJGH THEIR INSIGHT INTO THE STUDENTS' PERSONALITIES THEY WERE ABLETO BROADEN ANC INTENSIFY THE OVERALL IMF ACT CF THE PROGRAM. wEEKENC ExCuRSIONS 7uLTuRAL ACTIVITIES, ANC ATHLETICS ALSO WERE MACE A FART CF THE FRCGRAM, SEVENTY -FOUR OFTH: 82 PARTICIPATING STUCENTS WERE RECOMMENLEL TO THEFREFARATOy SCHOOLS. A 5 -YEAR FOLLCwUF STUDY CF THE ACADEMIC CAREERSOF THE PARTICIPATING STUCENTS IS PLANNED. (NH) MOM INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS OFFERING AMISS'XI TO 1964alier 1965 ABC STUDENTS Pomfret School Birch Wathen School The Hill Echool Pomfret, Conn. New York, N.Y. Pottstown, Pa. Cheshire Academy Holeerness School St. George's School Newport, R.I. Cheshire, Conn. Plymouth, N.H. The Choate School Hotchkiss School St. Mark's School Wallingford, Conr Lakeville, Conn. Southborough, Mass. The Collegiate School Kimball Union Academy St. Paul's School New York, N.x. Meriden, N.H. Concord, N.H. Commonwealth School Kent Soh o°. Solebury School Boston, Mass. Kent, Conn. New Hope, Pa. Cornwall Academy Lawrznceville School Suffield Academy Great Barrington, Mesa. Lawrenceville, N.J. Suffield, Conn. Cushing Academy Lenox School Taft School Ashburnham, Mass. Lenox, Mass. Watertown, Conn. Darrow School Mercersburg Academy Tilton School New Lebanon, N.Y. Mercersburg, Pa. Tilton, N.H. Deerfield Academy Milton Academy Verde Valley School Deerfield, Mass. Milton, Mass. Sedona, Ariz. DeVeaux School Mountain School Vermont Academy Niagara Falls, N.Y. Vershire Center, Vt. Sextons River, Vt. George School Mount Hermon School Western Reserve Academy Bucks County, Pa. Mount He rmon, Mass. Hudeon, Ohio Governor Dummer Academy New Hampton School Wilbraham Academy South Byfield, Mass. New Hampton, N.H. Wilbraham, Mass. Groton School Noble & Greenough Windsor Mountain School Groton, Mass. Dedham, Maas. Lenox, Mass. The Gunnery The Peddle School Woodstock Country School Washington, Ccmn. Hightstown, N.J. South Woodstock, Vt. Hackley School Phillips Academy The Wooster School Tarrytown, N.Y. Andover, Mass. Danbury, Conn. Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, N.H. U. S. QEPARTMENT OFHEALtH. EDUCATION ANC WELFARE Office of Education This Oimirnent has been reproduced exactly asreceived from the mom ororganization originating it. Points of view or oPinlons LID 00-?..72 1U/id 44not nocusarily Pasantofficial Office of Education positkitcepoky. t S.Wm-um OF Pita:T4. EDUCATION OFFILI & WELFARE THIS Co:_s-Ac.7gs r, t ("ED r. iRcmTHE POSIT;OliOR FOLls.Y. kEPELLt.',1 OF V: Uil CFHCE OR 0M/0n OF Er-UCATiON P-..,rrris&c.m to reproducethis Ned rneetial b::r ad by jia.t.40.4.) --to ERIC orc,:.,zaticyis operatingunder airaertn.:Its withthe U Office ofEducation. Further reproductoooutside the ERIC system requirespermissionof the copyrightowner. A Better Chance An Educational Program Sponsored by Dartmouth College Assisted by the Rockefeller Foundation fl and the Office of Economic Opportunity In Cooperation with the Independent Schools Talent Search Program Report by Charles F. Dey, Director Davis Jackson, Associate WINMeill Of WittSEAMS I Wit101 Ofd* MUNI ASems oso MS KOC*131 Ha SWAM EULIV CO Vrilot rtioses VD op;-'2. 1L tawco wormmono n. MRS sus se NISOW FONSMIORICAL CRC CfSICATKII tit3M*1 of POUC1. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Dr. Robert Binewenger Executive Director Henry Hillson The Pace Aseociation Principal. Cleveland, Ohio George Washington H.S. Alan Blackmer New York, N.Y. Dean of Faculty Robert Kreidler Phillips Academy Director of Educational Affairs Andover, Mass. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Rev. Canon James Breeden New York, N.Y. St. Paul's Cathedral Cary Potter Boston, Masa. President Noel Day National Assoc. of Independent Schools Director Boston, Mass. St. Mark's Social Center Julian Robinson Roxbury, Mass. Director Dr. Elizabeth Davis Dept, of Health and Welfare Director jersey City, N.J. Dept. of Psychiatry, Harlem Hosp. New York, N.Y. DARTMOUTH STEERING COUWaTTEE Edward Bradley Donald Rosenberg Assistant Professor, Classics Assiatast Professor, English Donald Campbell John :::!cotford, Jr. Director, NDEA History Inst. Ass istant Director Associate Professor, History Hopkams Center Waldo Chamberlin Bernard Segal Dean, Summer Programs Assistant Professor, Sociology William Davis, Jr. James Simmons Associate Professor, Physics Executive Director Independent Schools Talent Search Charles Dey Program Associate Dean, Dartmouth College William Slesnick John Finch Assistant Professor, Mathematics Professor, English George Theriault Davis Jackson Professor, Human Relations Associate Director of Admissions Director, Project ABC, 1966 Robert Tisdale Instructor, English Francis King Professor, Medical Psychology Richard Unsworth Dean, Tucker Foundation Laurence Leavitt Professor, Religion Headmaster Emeritus: Vermont Academy A , Af, , A WA - TABLE OF CONTENTS Staff 2 Statement of a 1964 ABC Student Foreword 4 Selection of Students 7 Faculty 9 Resident Tutors 10 Daily Schedule 15 Sample Schedule 16 A Report on the &ash Program 17 A Report on the Reading Program 34 A Report on the Mathematics Program 38 Activities 44 Meth a1 46 48 Community Relations 50 Resource Persons 51 Remts to Schools Evaluation of Project ABC 54 Concluding Observations 57 Appendices A.Family Profile 60 B.Academic Profile 64 C.Resource Persons 68 D.English Supplement 89 E.Mathematics Testing 77 F.Sample Recommendatkm Letters 91 Staff NAME EpvIous ACADEMIC YEAR ABC RESPONSIBILITY 01111111111111111,1111, Director Charles Dey Associate Dean Dartmouth College Assistant Director Earl Shaw Graduate Student, Physics Univ. of Calif.,Berkeley English Co-ordinator John Lincoln Chairman, English Dept. The Choate School English Instructors Richard Brown English Instr'ictor Danbury J.H.S., Conn. Albert Clough English Instructor Mount Hermon School Carrie Robinson English Professor Winston-Salem State College Mathematics Co-ordinator ThomasMikula Mathematics Instructor Phillips Academy, Andover Mathematics Instructors Alexander Marshall Chairman, Mathematics Dept. Lincoln-Sudbury H.S., Mass. David Mitchell Mathematics Instructor The Taft School U. Van Spivs Mathematics Instructor Glenville H.S., Cleveland Reeding Instructors James Achterberg Director of Admissions 3eorge School Lois Masland Reading Specialist Hanover Tp. Schools, N.J. Research Director Alden Wessman Psychology Professcr Sarah Lawrence College Resident Tutors Jeffery Amory English major (Dartmouth Students) Richard Clapp Pre - Medicine Lawrence Geiger History major John McCarthy Greek & Roman Studies major Thomas Mitchell Philosophy major Frank Mwine Government major Andrew Nr-i-rton English major Richard Tabors Biology major Daniel Thompson Philosophy major Resident Tutor (Dartmouth Graduate) Floyd Peterson Union Theological Seminery Resident Tutor Alternate Brian Kluck Psychology major Administrative Assistant Phyllis Carlson Project ABC Office Assistant Harold Robinson ABC '64 Phillips Academy, Andover 2 si" ...Preparatory school has been quitea new experience for me. But all in all I've really enjoyed it here. I'vemet so many different people; been exposed to so many new ideas, experiences,and situations. Many things that I used to thinkwere important and essential to me l have found sometimes not to beso august after all...and vice versa also! I've learned to developa clearer and more perceptive way of think- ing about or viewing all kinds andtypes of problems and people. 1 guess I've got a lot more road to travel too, but looking back,even now, it kind of surprisesme to see the changes I've made. ....1964 ABC student nearing the end of his first year at preparatory school. 3 3,0311.117.113.1D . -,1:1 Foreword With the broad objective of helpingdisadvantaged students gain a better chance, and thespecific objective of helping ninth and tenth grade youngsters makethe transition from public to pri- vate schools, DartmouthCollege launched Project ABC in the summer of 1964. In the words of Dartmouth PresidentJohn Sloan Dickey, "Our objective ip to help remedyacademic: and cultural deprivation which stands between a promisingpotential and its educational ful- fillment". ABC Remrt 1964 described our first summerexperience and the process by which forty-nineof our fifty-five students e.7.- tered preparatory school in September1984. To that apprehensive but hopeful document we can now append thereassuring testimony that all forty-nine completed theirfirst year at preparatory school. Not only did ABC students survive theirfirst year, but more remarkably, most prospered in their newenvironment. In round fig- ures, of 260 major coursesstudied, final grades showed 60 in the honors category (80 or above) andonly 10 courses failed. There were dramatic surprises (a student from arural Southern town who came