Lists and discusses internationally applicable factors which are likely to hinder or obstruct learning from the time the disadvantaged child enters the classroom. (DM)

Describes the activities of the Southwest Florida Self-Help Housing, Inc., serving three counties in the Florida migrant and seasonal farming area, first funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity out of its Migrant Division funds in 1967. (JM)

An equation in which median income for states is the dependent variable and years of school completed and other population characteristics appear as independent variables is presented. The need to invest in more schooling in relatively poor areas is evaluated in light of the empirical results. (Author)

As a Fulbrighter in India, the author describes life in India for an American and tells how he coped with the Indian students' Anti-Americanism. (IR)

The old city remains, finding new specialties to justify its persistence. Most noteworthy of these is a role as an Indian reservation for socially undesired persons, and for those who manage them for the rest of society. (JM)

To be effective, school board members must submit facts, rational analyses, and empirical evidence to provide proof of performance to constituents. (MF)

The appraisal of community action is the focus of this report on the establishment of 14 community centers in Kentucky. (MF)

Focuses on the activities of an Oklahoma group which organized a corporation to help start small businesses in an eight-county area. (DM)

Assessment of four-years' survey data on trends and indicators of students' attitudes toward government policy on social issues. (IR)

Examines the contradictory effects of ethnic ideology and social class on the cohesiveness of groups of poor people, as founded on different bases. (JM)

Discusses problems in defining poverty, conceptualizing the culture of poverty, and the relative weighting of intrapersonal versus situational factors in interpreting the behavior of the poor. (JM)

Discusses how a series of experimental health programs that have improved medical care for people in poor Nashville communities have also solved some of Meharry Medical College's financial problems. (WM)