Examines the problem of urban education and the implications for educators and disadvantaged youth, focusing on curriculum and background relevant to curriculum innovation. (DM)

Ten-state project tests new routes to better life for itinerant workers. (Editor)

An edited interview presents some frank, forthright responses relating to a great variety of concerns, from culture and stereotyping to poverty and tokenism. (Author)

A study to determine if the socioeconomic status of community leaders influences their ability to recognize poverty revealed that the average leader does not seek out controversial problems but rather is passive" and merely encourages people to work together. (JB)

Criticism of teachers who work among the poor is analyzed. (CK)

Recent studies show that powerlessness is an important variable in predicting behavioral and attitudinal patterns, and is related to environmental factors. (DM)

Personal account of the forces and influences on the author's life which led him to develop creative and well-documented black studies. (DM)

Shows that a sample of Philadelphia Negroes living in poverty do hold attitudes which can be characterized as a subculture of poverty"--yet representing only one segment of a variety of attitudes and values in this population, many of which are shared by the larger society. (DM)

Reviews the educational and social science research relevant to the education of the disadvantaged which was published during the 1960's. (JM)

A review of various education reform proposals and suggestions concerning their feasibility and implication. (RA)