Describes an internship program to help student teachers develop sensitivity to environmental influences on children from minority and poverty cultures. (NH)

The Adult Basic Learning Examination was administered to enrollees in a Concentrated Employment Program. On the basis of this investigation it was found that trainees obtained higher scores on the language skills than in computational areas. The suitability of the ABLE as a screening instrument for poverty programs is discussed. (Author)

The multifunctional aspects of the modern metropolis predetermine that the diverse elements of the population must be considered in planning schemes. The anthropologist, the planner, and the social scientist may no longer view the city from their quite different perspectives. (JB)

Authors discuss the effects of malnutrition on retardation of mental development and intellectual capacity. Research findings on undernourished experimental animals are cited as well as studies involving children suffering the effects of malnutrition in infancy. (Editor/LF)

The school nurse pilot project described demonstrated the effectiveness of the inservice program in extending the role of the nurse and the soundness of the principle that health services, provided where the people who need them are, when they are there, and in a way they can accept, are highly effective. (Author)

Describes how an agency in East Washington remained in operation by abandoning the neighborhood-center concept for the issue-group approach to poverty. (DM)

Excerpts from hearings before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Washington, D. C., August 18, 1970. (DM)

This survey of the prevailing program of publicly assisted housing is based on a questionnaire administered to 10,276 housing authority commissioners. It concludes that inadequacies in the performance of the housing authorities and the attitudes of lay commissioners are responsible for the present low-income housing problem. (RJ)