Former principal relates personal experience in being transferred from an affluent suburban school to a poverty-area school with the lowest test scores in Westchester County (New York). Tells what he did to improve student test scores and some lessons he learned from the experience. (PKP)

For the past 35 years, U.S. Blacks on average have been three times as likely as Whites to live below the poverty line. A large factor in the overall black poverty gap is the huge number of black children being raised in poverty. However, but the poverty gap shrinks when college-educated blacks are compared to college-educated whites. (SM)

Considers how in order to highlight the disastrous effects of systematic racial oppression, ethnic American writers of young adult literature have portrayed their characters struggling to break free of poverty against overwhelming odds. Discusses the problem of poverty in three adolescent novels. Concludes that poverty can be an equal opportunity…

Used administrative (for 20,237 adults) and survey data (from about 200 leavers per month) from Georgia to examine risk factors for recidivism among welfare leavers and the relationship between recidivism and leavers' ability to find sustained employment. Results show a threshold of earnings that welfare leavers need to survive at the poverty…

Describes the need to broaden the civil rights agenda to deal more effectively with issues faced by the Hispanic community. Discusses the need for a continuing governmental role in addressing urban problems. (MW)

Obtained estimates of prevalence of childhood poverty with data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics by method of increment-decrement tables. Racial differences in childhood poverty were found to be especially pronounced and could not be accounted for by racial differences in family structure. (Author/NB)

Responds to Scarr and McCartney's (1988) Bermudian study. Cites recently published research to support a conclusion that poverty alone does not predict school disadvantage so much as poor parents frequently having low motivation and less than high school graduation. (RJC)

Presents description of one rehabilitation counseling client, examining her past experience and future goals. Information provided by the client in counseling sessions is discussed and plans for improving her situation are suggested. (NB)

The ideology of blaming people for their poverty prevails through a discourse of derision. Community educators can work in ways that emphasize either social control or liberation. They must critically analyze poverty initiatives in order to develop an alternative discourse that gives voice to communities labeled as the "underclass." (SK)

Family skills training for disadvantaged families in Adelaide, Australia, includes awareness of cultural diversity, group process, and family weekend camps. The program is expanding to help parents deal with adolescent problems such as running away and alcohol/drug abuse. (SK)

Offers a lesson plan for teaching students about religious leaders' views concerning poverty. Provides quotations from a rabbi, a Catholic bishop, and a Methodist minister concerning their approaches to dealing with the poor. Includes questions for students dealing with the quotations. (SG)

Among 2,349 nonmetropolitan U.S. counties, poverty levels varied inversely with size of family farms but were little affected by industrialized farming when nonfarm sociodemographic variables were controlled. Farming patterns had less effect on rural poverty than the local employment structure, population characteristics, and geographic location.…

Uses data from grandmothers with daughters in prison to illustrate need to transcend "either-or" arguments around age as master status; highlight absence of middle generation in growing number of families; and question anti-family premises of generational equity debate. Concludes with recommendations for how researchers and advocates could enhance…

Uses data from National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to examine relationship between student poverty, school poverty, and student achievement. Students in high-poverty public schools, whatever their socioeconomic status, show considerably greater need for special education support than do students in schools with lower percentages of poor…

Kohl presents his version of the six national goals, stressing students' right to the elimination of child poverty, dignified full employment, and the chance to work toward a compassionate global economy. Corporations really want sheep, not inquisitive, well-qualified workers. Fighting poverty is more effective than labeling children…