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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF ECONOMIC WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506 OPPORTUNITY slif/has copy December 3, 1964 twiel take care of getecn MEMORANDUM TO: Lee C. White Associate Special Counsel to the President The White House FROM: Sargent Shriver Director Sarge Office of Economic Opportunity SUBJECT: Proposal from James Farmer, CORE, for Literacy Training We have studied James Farmer's memorandum of October 16, 1964, to President Johnson, with interest. Several of our staff are intimately familiar with Dr. Woolman's approach. If this new literacy training method can be shown to be effective, it would promise a massive break- through on the illiteracy problem. We are presently developing a research and demonstration project to test three different methods of literacy training via use of programmed instruction. One of these methods is the Woolman Accelerated Progressive Choice Method. Our early plans call for the launching of a test of these three methods, using several thousand illiterate public welfare recipients in seven States. Part of the test includes the use of non-certified instructors and high school graduates as trainers. This would conform to a test of the use of CORE volunteers. We are in close touch with both Commissioner Keppel's staff and Commissioner Winston's staff on the planning of this research.

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