Historically rooted in Black and Latino youth subcultures of New York City, Hip-Hop emerged as a form of sociocultural expression by which young people, particularly those socially and culturally marginalized by race and class, voice their discontent, anger, and struggles, make sense of their social realities, and exercise resistance. In a White,…

The author was startled by the carelessness and selectivity of Robert Slavin's comments, which give his words the ring of a promotional release rather than of intellectual reflection. He agrees that Slavin is accurate in saying that the scores on reading tests at P.S. 65 in the South Bronx improved during a period in which, among a number of other…

Argues against a proposed two-year suspension of reading achievement testing of black and Puerto Rican children. Suggests that teachers should develop expertise in interpreting test data and in appropriately revising curriculum and teaching strategies. (SF)

THIS PLAN FOR A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY INSTRUCTION IN DISADVANTAGED BROOKLYN, N.Y., SCHOOLS OUTLINES THE METHODS TO BE USED IN COLLECTING DATA. INTERVIEWS WILL BE CONDUCTED WITH TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL, AND CITIZENS GROUPS. INCLUDED IN THE PLAN ARE AN OUTLINE OF THE SCHEDULE AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING THE INTERVIEWS AND A LIST OF…

Testimony before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974 by the project director of a projected in-depth review of the delivery of educational services to over 700,000 minority children attending the New York City Public School system asserted to be the largest civil rights review of its kind in U.S. history.…

A review of current programs and the growing crisis in program delivery within New York City's Agency for Child Development demonstrates the special problems of black mothers in the labor force. The New York case study indicates that there are three basic and critical issues currently confronting public policy for the care of young children: (1)…

Many Americans who live far from major cities and who have no firsthand knowledge of realities in urban public schools seem to have a rather vague and general impression that the great extremes of racial isolation they recall as matters of grave national significance some 35 or 40 years ago have gradually, but steadily, diminished in more recent…

This report is an evaluation of a selected New York City Umbrella program funded under a special grant from the New York State Legislature. The program, which served eighty children in two Brooklyn schools, focused on the early identification of learning problems and the remediation of these problems in first and second grade children in each of…

THE VALIDITY OF THE WOLFF AND STEIN CONCLUSIONS (SIX MONTHS LATER. STUDY I. PS 000 281) IS CHALLENGED ON THE BASIS OF ONE MAJOR AND FOUR MINOR METHODOLOGICAL DEFICIENCIES. THE STUDY'S MAJOR CONCLUSION WAS THAT FORMER HEAD START CHILDREN HAVE GREATER LEARNING READINESS THAN THEIR CLASSMATES HAVE SIX MONTHS LATER BUT THAT NO EDUCATIONAL GAINS HAD…

The Perceptual Conditioning for Decoding Program, funded under a special grant from the New York State Legislature, was designed for the teaching of decoding as the first phase in learning to read to 1900 kindergarten through third grade students in eleven schools in Queens County, New York. For those target students not knowing the alphabet, a…

This report is an evaluation of a selected New York City Umbrella program, funded under a special grant from the New York State Legislature. The primary goal of the program was to improve the reading achievement of first and second grade pupils in selected schools through the use of photographs taken by the pupils. The program was conducted in six…

In the 1990s, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. (CFE), filed a lawsuit against New York State on behalf of New York City students, charging that the state unconstitutionally underfunded city schools. In 2003, the Court of Appeals held that the state funding system must be reformed to ensure that every school in New York City has sufficient…

AN ACTION PROGRAM ATTEMPTS TO PROMOTE BETTER ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN. ABOUT 70,000 CHILDREN ARE INVOLVED IN THE ASSC PROGRAM, THREE AFTERNOONS A WEEK. IN ADDITION TO THE REMEDIAL SERVICES AND TEACHER ASSISTANCE, SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND HOMEWORK ROOMS ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO ASSC PUPILS AND PROVIDE STIMULATION FOR THOSE NEEDING…

The author describes a comprehensive health services program of treatment health education and vigorous follow-up designed to meet the needs of primarily low-income, minority children (k, 3-6) in Harlem. (MB)