Using the center/satellite strategy (developing professionals equipped with traditional counselor skills, but who would focus on developing a better system), the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) Pupil Personnel Service Development Institute trained Chicano teachers as bilingual counselors. Based on feedback from participants and…

Examples of rural poor people in the Southwest are cited to point out the disadvantages with which this group must cope. Educational disadvantages suffered by the rural student are indicated. Exemplary projects developed in problem areas identified by the Bureau of Educational Personnel Development are indicated as a means of bringing about needed…

This annual report on the state of the education professions focuses on the problem of educating students from low-income families in an attempt to sharpen understanding of the issues involved. Subjects for the chapters were chosen with respect to concern with these particular problems and because surveys had been conducted which bear on them…