Several special programs have been recently developed to make graduate study possible for Negroes who have potential but do not meet educational requirements of national scholarship or fellowship programs. The Southern Fellowships Fund, created by the Council of Southern Universities, Inc., administers several programs of the Council, including…

Statistical tables prepared by the Office of Civil Rights and released January 14, 1971, relating to the extent of interracial schooling. (RJ)

A Wisconsin law that forces students to attend school before they receive welfare money may impact Blacks and other minority students disproportionately. The "learnfare" program reduces the payments received by families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children for truancy and dropping out. (FMW)

This report evaluates the 1984-85 operation of the Basic Educational Skills Tutorial Program (BEST), which is conducted by the San Diego Urban League. In a brief introduction it is explained that BEST is designed to utilize the talents of volunteers for the benefit of black and other minority youth who need out-of-the-classroom support with…

The purpose of this dissertation, an ethnographic case study of white children attending an urban, public elementary school with a ninety percent black enrollment, is to examine their strategic adaptations and to gauge the effect of these adaptations on actual cross-racial interactions. The data were collected through participant and…

Findings support the view that there are racial differences in the reported self-attitudes of fifth grade children and offer clues as to the nature of these differences. (Author)

This study investigated how many high-poverty and high-minority schools in California and nationwide had high student performance, identifying schools that had students with reading and/or math performance in the top third among all schools in the state, at least 50 percent low-income students, and at least 50 percent African American and Hispanic…

Describes a Department of Defense program in which, each year since 1968, the Federal Government has taken an increasingly large number of impressionable ghetto children, and attempted to mold them into right-thinking individuals"--as defined by the Department of Defense. (RJ)

Describes the history of the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Dance Company, known as PHILADANCO, founded in the early 1970s by Joan Myers Brown at her Philadelphia School of Dance. PHILADANCO has sought to discover and train a corps of local Black dancers to build a strong dance company and important cultural institution. (AF)

Argues that the current emphasis on the future economic worth of low-income, inner-city children is often inappropriate, because it tends to view them as economic units, some of whom may end up a burden to society while others have only limited utility. The paper suggests that these children have great value now and unlimited potential for the…

This paper attempts to view Blacks as minorities from a subcultural perspective. This perspective is brought to bear on the question of identity and the process of schooling. Discontinuities brought about by the meeting of different cultures are examined. (Author)

This paper presents data from the Inner London Education Authority Literacy Survey on the reading attainment of Black British students. Black British attainment was significantly lower at the age of eight years, and by school-leaving age was relatively lower still. Attainment was only marginally affected by length of education. (CT)

The past decade of educational reforms has had little effect on improved national reading and writing skills, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as "The Nation's Report Card." However, Black students made steady improvement in reading skills. (FMW)

Rationale for sponsorship is that black institutions have the exclusive rights to champion the cause of black education, and, consequently, should be most familiar with factors more germane to the education of blacks and, probably, certain other minority groups. (Author/AM)