There are systematic techniques available to enable indigenous lay personnel to develop and implement effective courses of action for the students. The results suggest that the functional professionals are not simply a measure of last resort, but rather, when appropriately employed, may be a preferred mode of treatment, constituting the human link…

It was concluded from the findings that the boys and girls studied did maintain a consistently high-level frame of reference. It was observed that boys tended to hold slightly higher educational and income goals and to demonstrate a higher level of consistency across goal levels in their frame of reference. (Author)

This article stresses need for school community discussion groups as an alternative to violence, particularly in ghetto areas. This concept demands vulnerability of each participant in order to be in full communication with others in the group. (CJ)

Presented at the 1969 meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association in New York. (Author)

Educational institutions at all levels must respect the dialects of Negro students and initiate programs of instruction in these dialects. Only in this way can discrimination in fact against this minority group in our culture be stopped. (CK)

Describes three tutoring centers--two in churches, one in an office building--where adults from the community provide voluntary after-school help to children from Chicago's disadvantaged Cabrini Green housing project. (SJL)

Tests a crucial assumption in the debate between those who advocate ghetto development and those who advocate ghetto dispersal: that the suburban jobs held by urban poverty-area residents are economically superior to the jobs held by those who both live and work in the poverty area. An analysis of data from the 1970 Census Employment Survey finds…

Evaluates segregation patterns in 1990 and trends in segregation between 1980 and 1990 for 232 U.S. metropolitan areas with substantial black populations. Explanations for differences in metropolitan segregation involve the persistence of past influences maintaining segregation in old metropolitan areas, a high percentage of new housing, and white…

In this article, the author talks about Darcy Frey's famous book "The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams," which was published in 1994. In his book, Frey describes Coney Island's urban renewal wherein most of the cottages and triple deckers had been replaced by a vast tract of housing projects where African Americans now reside.…

Historically, schools serving impoverished families trapped in America's urban "ghettos" have been resistant to community participation. Enhanced participation is critically needed, however, if long-term urban school-reform projects and efforts to develop more empowering, community-supporting forms of pedagogy are to succeed. This article examines…

Research continues to illustrate the resonance and intensity of feeling that attachment to a locality can generate, within this highlighting the gender-specific impacts created by the intersection of ethnicity and locality. Within the ethnically segregated working class communities of Belfast, the importance of locality takes on added…

Poles settled in two major Detroit areas: the West Side settlement which took shape around St. Casimir's Church and developed westward along Michigan Avenue; and the larger East Side settlement which ran east-west on both sides of Canfield Street and then north. (Author/JM)

The author analyzed social and educational problems which arose during the first two years at Hostos, concluding with a number of recommendations for similar community colleges. (Editor/RK)

The issue of Puerto Rican assimilation is addressed within a cost-benefit analysis framework. The desire of Puerto Ricans to assimilate is discussed in terms of (1) what they expect to gain; (2) what they perceive their chances are of "making it"; (3) the perceived social costs of assimilation; and (4) what other alternatives to assimilation are…