The purpose of urban education is to instruct the young in a way that will enable them to cope with their environment when they leave school. (CK)

Disadvantaged students should be encouraged to explore and use the language resources of their own folk cultures. (JH)

"Cultural relativism" exists when individuals can choose the values and responsible life styles that afford the natural and best vehicles of productive and positive expression. This paper suggests a strategy for accomplishing this kind of cultural acceptance in the present educational system. It calls for the transmission of basic, unbiased data…

Edmund W. Gordon, noted for his research on diverse human characteristics and pedagogy related to the education of low-status populations, responds to questions on learning styles and their modification, cultural background, hemispheric dominance, instructional design, teaching methods, matching teacher and student characteristics, and the use of…

This paper reports some of the conclusions arrived at during a five-week Educational Provisions Development Act Training Program for teachers of low-income and minority students at the University of Akron. At that time, the contention that disadvantaged college students need affective recognition as well as cognitive recognition if they are to…

A study was conducted to assess teaching in minority engineering programs, based on 38 engineering institutions with special programs for disadvantaged minorities. The institutions were investigated with respect to preferences, characteristics, and preparation of teachers and the availability of faculty development for special program teachers.…

In 1970-71, Delgado Junior College (DJC) held a nine month institute designed to: (1) increase participant understanding of the problems specific to low-income and minority students, including physical and psychological problems and cultural background; (2) improve the methods used to teach these students; and (3) develop innovative and special…

This book gives detailed reports on twenty-five projects in teacher training, specifically designed to prepare teachers for teaching disadvantaged children. These reports give a comprehensive mixture of local problems and their solutions which can provide patterns or models for problems in any area. Part I describes the projects in terms of their…

Discussed is the difficulty encountered in teaching humanities to underprepared students at Florida A & M University, where 90 percent of the students are in the special admissions category that permits enrollment of students who score below the entrance requirement. Administrative neglect of the humanities is also addressed. (JMD)

In order for junior colleges to attract and retain nontraditional students (ethnic minorities, women, senior citizens, etc.), they must translate institutional commitment into action. Chief administrators must make their attitudes toward nontraditional students known to all college personnel if the climate for learning is to improve. Those who…

For educational delivery systems to meet the needs of special rural populations of minority children, teaching and learning strategies must take into account the three factors of human identity, culture, and ruralness itself. Children who are members of special populations often have an even greater need than most children for recognition,…

The bulletin reports on significant research, development, and current practice that bear on the social studies and the disadvantaged for levels K-12. The report is intended to serve as a guide for curriculum decision makers and other educators interested in teaching about, as well as to, the disadvantaged. The following five areas are discussed:…

The Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program is designed for grades 6 through 12, prepares students most underrepresented in secondary education for four-year college, and restructures the teaching methodology of an entire school to make college preparatory curricula accessible to almost all students. To achieve this goal, school…

The effects of Chapter 1 (Education Consolidation and Improvement Act) reading pull-out programs on the reading achievement of participating students was studied for 30 fifth- and sixth-grade students from a Chicago (Illinois) elementary school serving a low socioeconomic neighborhood with a minority enrollment of 99 percent. Fifteen students had…

The problems experienced by nontraditional college students and the responses by colleges and universities are considered. The new students on campuses are adults, students from lower socioeconomic levels, ethnic minorities, and women. Since many new students tend to have academic difficulties, colleges have offered remedial classes in each…