This research examined how three elementary school principals conceptualized within the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) of 1990 the development of teacher leaders. Two major criteria were used to select these principals: (a) their schools had continuous student achievement for three consecutive biennia despite high levels of student poverty;…

This report on poverty in the District of Columbia is designed to serve as a strategic planning tool for the United Planning Organization (UPO), its delegate agencies, affiliate organizations, and the general public as they address the challenges of poverty in the city. The first section highlights the significant demographic changes that have…

Using a review of the literature and national longitudinal data on 1,087 youth aged 11 to 17, this study investigated whether religious commitment reduces drug use among poor urban teenagers. Standard multivariate statistical analysis of data from the National Youth Survey (1997) showed that inner-city adolescents who were more religious were…

A summary of findings is presented of the Graduated Work Incentive Experiment (New Jersey-Pennsylvania "negative income tax" experiment). The experiment studied the effects of payment of substantial amounts of unearned income to poor families on the labor-supply response of such families. (EA)

Ghetto residents liken their communities to prisons as they comment on America's political, economic, and legal systems. (DM)

The Jencks report holds that, to reduce economic inequality, new public policies must be devised. Author discusses Jencks' report. (DM)

Although the culture of poverty may be applicable to the barrios of South America, this study of the aspirations, expectations, and attitudes toward protest of Negro youths in Cleveland refutes the validity of this theory for lower-class urban Americans. (Author)

Describes the nutritional needs of individuals in New Mexico, and the efforts of the Nutrition Improvement Program (NIP) of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine at Albuquerque to remove hunger and malnutrition. (DM)

Despite stubborn problems, urbanologist sees steady improvement in city conditions. (Editor)

Surveys effects of colonialism on black man's position and psyche. Cites black leaders against the necessity for "black revolution, rejecting black leaders and organizations held to be extremist. (KG)

Professor Woo Sik Kie's conclusions on the relationship between job discrimination and poverty of nonwhite workers are examined. (BC)