Schools in Calais, Maine, and Providence, Rhode Island, are defendants in Title I legal actions. Lawyers' roles and education as an organizing issue are examined. (Author/MF)

Analysis of questionnaire data supported the hypothesis that representatives of the poor on an Office of Economic Opportunity poverty board were significantly different from representatives of the non-poor in selected demographic and socio-psychological characteristics. (Author/JM)

Describes how "a highly successful program of legal services for the poor is torn between community control advocates in the neighborhoods and radical intellectuals in the central office of the Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation. (Author)

Illiteracy among the formal working force has largely been eliminated: illiterate laborers are generally self-employed farm and home workers. Discusses the relationship between the work environment and the literacy environment as well as new directions for literacy research. (JOW)

Argues that social workers will suffer in times of inflation, recession, and depleted resources. Criticizes Jack Rothman's article "Macro Social Work in a Tightening Economy" from the July 1979 issue of this journal. (Author/BEF)

Examines the perspectives and dimensions of social change and community development in rural United States. Argues that the causes of poverty must be reconceptualized, and emphasis placed on long-range institutionalized programs of community services, training, and citizen participation. (SK)

Discusses problems that social scientists face when evaluating social programs, including cost, methodological concerns, and the development and application of new analytical techniques. (GC)

The impact of stress, due to migration and poverty, on the family structure of the low-income Puerto Rican family is discussed. The ecostructural family therapy approach is suggested as an appropriate therapeutic modality with this high-risk group.

It is the responsibility of adult education to train and retrain manpower to translate political, economic, and social objectives into action plans and programs, and to diffuse values, orientation, attitudes, and perspectives among the people in order to reduce social inequality. (CT)

Indicates that the increase in female-headed households was accounted for by childless women who are ineligible for public assistance benefits. Although the public assistance system has become more generous, a married woman who becomes a female head can expect a substantial drop in her economic level. (Author)

Discusses problems that technological innovations have brought to women, particularly in developing countries. Women must be able to buy and control new technologies in order to benefit from them. (CK)