Guidelines are provided for the professional youth staff member in Iowa to use in developing and implementing an educational program for youth in the inner city. The proposed guidelines are related to both organization and program, using the present 4-H and Youth Program as a base for developing programs for inner city youth. (DB)

Suggests that each school develop its environmental curriculum around local and topical matters to provide direct meaning to pupils. (Author/JF)

Deplores the fact that California spends 15 million dollars a year for driver's education but next to nothing for environmental education, and discusses proposed programs in survival training for teachers and students. (Author/EA)

An innovative program for teaching music in urban areas is presented. (CK)

Community resource sites in Maine were utilized by junior high school students participating in Operation EPIC, an ESEA Title III experimental program in curriculum. The program attempts to develop student awareness and appreciation of the urban complex: social, cultural, industrial, and recreational phenomena. Systematic evaluation of the field…

The Architects-in-Schools program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts is being used in many urban schools to show students how their city works and how they, as citizens, can influence the course of their community. (Author/MLF)

This publication is composed of four parts. Part I, The Final Report, consists of the program foundations, description of the target group, description of resources, analysis of processes developed, creating the resource role, creation awareness, developing a problem solving orientation, curriculum integration, evolution of the group process,…

Researchers and practitioners should find this publication useful in identifying substantive problems, methodological approaches, and research findings applicable to education programs for the disadvantaged. Major sections of the document include: (1) Historical Perspective of Vocational Education For the Disadvantaged, (2) Rationale For and…

Describes an urban environmental education program in which an overgrown vacant lot has been used for environmental study and for the development of a productive garden. The program has been successful in providing elementary school children with positive experiences in their own urban environment. (JR)

The Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 called for a comprehensive attack on social, economic, and physical problems of blighted urban areas through the concentration and coordination of resources. It also required the involvement of neighborhood citizens in all aspects of planning: from setting goals, choosing…

Discussed are the public education and information programs on noise pollution control currently in operation within the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area that have been either developed or implemented under the auspices of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. (BT)

This report attempts to identify effective strategies that might be used by city and school administrators in planning, initiating, and coordinating comprehensive deprived neighborhood manpower and education programs. It is the result of a 4-day workshop of leaders in local government and school systems, held in late 1967 at the University of…