Description of the Public Service Careers (PSC) program at Harvard Extension School for educationally disadvantaged adults. (DM)

Discusses strategies to alleviate rural employment problems. (BH)

Deals with an Office of Economic Opportunity-funded Neighborhood Employment Center with an affiliated job training center in Massachusetts. (DM)

Graduates of compensatory early childhood programs in Knox County, Kentucky demonstrated few differences when compared with matched subjects in first grade. (WY)

Programs are differentiated as based on concepts of overall enrichment, perceptual training, or language based intervention; and the need for evaluating these concepts by establishing limited focus programs based upon delineated testable hypotheses is discussed. (JM)

The view that poverty and riches are caused by two distinct personality traits is perpetuated through educational materials. Examples drawn from secondary social studies texts and adult education programs in India illustrate how an educational system is a medium of cultural dissemination and political control. (AM)

Outlines Action Counseling, a normological, problem-solving method, which capitalizes on the strengths of poor families for solving family problems and improving their situation. Steps include setting a theme, identifying and clarifying positively stated goals, designing mutually agreed upon action plans, overcoming obstacles, obtaining…

Debates the issue of voluntary artificial insemination among single women who depend on public assistance. Ooms argues that eligibility for welfare should be based on court defined criteria rather than on moral judgments, while Steinfels suggests that the welfare of the child is most important in any consideration. (Author/AOS)

The author presents major criticisms to Paulo Freire's work and offers some useful insights into the nature and limitations of the political aspects of his thought. (Falmer Press, Falmer House, Barcombe, Nr Lewes, East Sussex BN8 5DL, UK) (SSH)

The study finds that a 10 percent increase in the federal minimum wage (or the coverage rate) would reduce teenage (16-19) employment by about one percent, which is at the lower end of the range of estimates from previous studies. (Author/SSH)

Triage policy is the exclusion of severely declining urban areas from services and programs on the grounds that the intensity of their needs cannot be met and the provision of services is therefore inefficient. Community groups must insist that severity of need, human benefits, and community protection be the priorities for allocation of funds.…

Declining financial resources necessitate the reevaluation of educational priorities. Those who see the urban problem as financial urge the maintenance of a balanced school budget and suggest new sources of revenue. This view's shortcomings include a lack of social compassion and failure to recognize the problem of racial discrimination.

Data from seven large urban areas are examined to determine the relationship between neighborhoods with a high incidence of poverty and social disorganization and low reading achievement. (ST)