Changes in language teaching techniques, curriculum enrichment, and inservice teacher education can lead to schools which are more functional in the education of the Mexican-American child. (DM)

The author proposes a counseling unit adapted to include disadvantaged youth's need for immediate gratification by payment for participation in intensive counseling. This counseling setting provides an opportunity for the method of successive approximations toward less frequent payment and finally toward payment on a regular fixed interval basis.…

Identifies a number of factors contributing to ineffective administration of Title I programs. (Author/MF)

A sample of 130 pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers was surveyed via a self-administered closed-ended questionnaire to determine the factors that discriminate between girls who become pregnant in early versus late adolescence. Dating patterns, extent of parental control, and knowledge and use of birth control were among the areas surveyed.…

Founded in 1932 at Monteagle, Tennessee, Highlander has functioned as a residential school, serving a variety of constituencies. Throughout its history, it has sought to help disadvantaged victims of injustice and poverty, principally in the South, to learn how to change their conditions. (SSH)

Most Appalachians are similar to mainstream America--White, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant. However, the similarity has created an invisibility which has resulted in Appalachians being one of the most neglected of minority groups. Appalachians differ markedly from the mainstream in values and history. (JN)

Low socioeconomic status, lack of equal opportunities, and high concentrations of minorities in urban slums were found to correlate highly with crimes committed by and against minorities according to this study. Studies indicate that violent and property related crimes are committed more often against Blacks than Whites at neighborhood and…

Describes the program, initiated in 1980, to improve national literacy in Nicaragua by sending student volunteers to the countryside and adult volunteers to the urban slums as teachers. (Condensed from "Interracial Books for Children Bulletin," No. 2, 1981, p3-7.) (Editor/SJL)

This study examined the moral growth effects on 18 college students of year-long participation in ACTION, a volunteer antipoverty program. While scores on the Defining Issues Test did not indicate increased moral growth, students generally viewed their agency learning experience more positively than their university classes. (Author/SJL)

If 1970-77 trends in academic salaries and the poverty level threshold persist, it is suggested, lower-ranking American academicians may expect to enter the ranks of the working poor in the eighties. Some evidence is presented and some options and alternatives are discussed. (MLW)