With a focus on Mobilization for Youth (MFY) this paper questions whether community action projects are best administered by public or private sponsorship or by a combination of both. MFY is a private organization financed by an NIMH grant and OEO funds. Since its inception in 1959 it has remained administratively independent, but while this…

These proceedings contain four papers and commentaries by scholars on the problems of the socially disadvantaged child in the urban school. The papers discuss (1) cognitive development and psychopathology in the urban environment, (2) an experimental approach to the remediation of the conduct disorders of children, (3) juvenile delinquency in the…

This study has two major purposes: 1)to report on the numbers of economically and or educationally disadvantaged elementary school students who do and do not receive compensatory services under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and 2)to report on the benefits students derive from such services during more than one school year.…

This paper, part of an evaluation of the early intervention project at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, deals primarily with results of the Bayley Mental Development Index (MDI). The MDI was administered to experimental and control infants from lower socioeconomic background at 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Results (discussed in…

This report describes an attempt to break the socioeconomic educational poverty cycle of rural black children in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Early childhood education was identified as the area for the greatest concentration of effort. Training and retraining of instructional staff was mandated. Twenty-two kindergarten classes were placed…

This paper describes the Family Day Care Program, a publicly funded service with 1,800 providers serving 8,000 children in the five boroughs of New York City. The children, ranging in age from 2 months to 12 years, are cared for from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. In each of the private licensed homes are a maximum of 6 children including those of the provider.…

In an attempt to obtain a measure of rural-farm poverty conceptually more meaningful than those currently available, a measure based on "full income" (defined as "the purchasing power available for consumption in a normal year while keeping wealth intact") was proposed. The main task was estimation of the full income, rather…

This paper describes four cases of intervention in the relations between groups of widely differing social status and power. "Dialogs" between high corporate executives and social activities from urban poverty areas in three cities were supported by a foundation interested in promoting long term cooperation between the groups on social projects of…

This document--one of six closely related studies designed to consider employability of rural labor, the impact of industry, and social adjustments in the Mississippi Delta and the Ozarks--examines the socioeconomic factors affecting employment in industry of black Americans living in a rural area of the Mississippi Delta. Madison, Arkansas, the…

This hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs began with opening statements by a number of senators. Following this, statements were made by a number of witnesses, including Hon. Claude Pepper, a U.S. Representative from the Eleventh District of the State of Florida; Dr. Jean Mayer, professor of nutrition, Harvard…

This paper examined the performance of kindergarten and first grade children in an inner-city school during the first full year of the Primary Education Project (PEP) Quantification (early mathematics) curriculum. The curriculum was based on a hierarchically sequenced set of objectives and accompanying criterion-referenced placement and diagnostic…

This report describes counselor aide training activities in the Operation Mainstream project conducted in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Northern Maine. It evaluates the effectiveness of the training program and identifies some significant and effective educational principles, concepts, and techniques. Its overall objective is to suggest a design for…

The 2-volume Appalachian bibliography is alphabetically arranged by authors' last names under alphabetically listed subject headings. Volume I contains A-L subject headings, while Volume II contains L-W subject headings. The majority of the 8,220 documents cited are annotated and were published between 1891 and 1970. The bibliography contains such…

The New Careers concept involves helping the disadvantaged to help themselves, by offering them entry level jobs with the opportunity for advancement to the professional level. A definite hierarchy is established, with specific tasks and educational requirements defined for each level, and with the necessary training made available during the work…

This paper criticizes the Coleman Report for not measuring how much extra learning took place as a result of favorable changes in school inputs. Other limitations were that the range of school inputs were confined to those present in the schools surveyed and that no indication was given as to whether the educational investment was worthwhile. It…