ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the demography, educational outcomes, and social consequences of the group of students and aims to explore the production of schooling for this group of children. It argues that the educational process in schools attended by these children was the cause of much of the problem rather than the solution. The chapter provides an effective approach to educating the disadvantaged must be characterized by high expectations, deadlines by which children will be performing in the educational mainstream, stimulating instructional programs, planning by the educational staff who will offer the program, and the use of all available resources, including the parents of the students. Over a school year they found that enriched instruction designed to create meaning and understanding was more effective in increasing knowledge of advanced skills and at least as effective in providing basic skills as was the more traditional remediation and basic skills approach.
