This monograph, summarizing the ideas of participants attending a two-day mini-conference, provides educators with information on the relationship between the National Alliance of Business (NAB) and career education. This booklet begins with a section presenting background information on NAB and several standard NAB youth programs. The next…

DETAILED INFORMATION IS PROVIDED ON A VARIETY OF PROFESSIONS FOR WOMEN. EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, ESTIMATED SALARIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCEMENT ARE DISCUSSED IN SUCH OCCUPATIONS AS ACCOUNTANT, HOME ECONOMIST, ENGINEER, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST, NURSE, SCIENTIST, REAL ESTATE AGENT AND BROKER,…

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE STATUS OF 1964 GRADUATES FROM COLLEGES ATTENDED PREDOMINANTLY BY NEGROES. THE SURVEYED POPULATION, FROM 50 PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO SCHOOLS, WAS SAMPLED AT THE RATE OF 117 PER SCHOOL. FORTY-NINE PERCENT RESPONDED TO THE MAILED QUESTIONNAIRE. ELECTRONICALLY PROCESSED DATA SHOWED THAT 98 PERCENT OF ALL…

THIS SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS DESCRIBES THE LOWER-STATUS URBAN AND RURAL FAMILIES IN PUERTO RICO. THE "JIBAROS," THE RURAL POOR OF THE HIGHLANDS, ARE LANDLESS AGRICULTURAL WORKERS WHO ARE MORE ISOLATED, LESS LITERATE, AND LESS ACCULTURATED TO URBAN LIFE THAN OTHER PUERTO RICANS. THEY TEND TO BE IDEALIZED AS THE PROTOTYPES OF THE ISLAND FOLK…

IN 1964, FOUR PROFESSORS FROM THE DIVISION OF TEACHER EDUCATION AT EMORY UNIVERSITY VISITED SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN BURKE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND EDGEFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. IN THIS SUBSEQUENT REPORT, THE AUTHORS CONTEND THAT THE ACT OF DESEGREGATION DOES NOT IN AND OF ITSELF REMOVE THE OMNIPRESENT PROBLEM OF POOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE…

Elderly women may suffer from economic problems, isolation, loneliness, poor housing, poor health care, and few viable alternatives to institutionalization. Although the total number of aged poor has declined by over 40% in the past 20 years, the number of aged women living alone and poor stayed almost unchanged. The separation and divorce rates…

Some of the issues involved in promoting home ownership among blacks and investment in inner city communities are discussed in this paper. The experiences of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in revitalizing Bedford Stuyvesant are described. Economic barriers to prospective home ownership are identified and strategies and programs…

By the early 1970's, political and scholarly tides had shifted away from the confidence and optimism of the 1960's. The initial broad consensus on the nation's problems and their solutions declined. An evolution is apparent in the attitudes and pronouncements by popular scholars on the role of federal government and its capacity to bring about…

The study directs attention away from urban poverty to the nation's rural poor and how they are served by five public assistance programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and its Unemployed Fathers Component (AFDC-UF), Supplementary Security Income (SSI), Food Stamps (FS), and General Assistance. The 41% of the nation's poor who…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES A PROJECT WHICH IDENTIFIED COMMUNITY PROBLEMS IN TENNESSEE BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA. ACTION RESEARCH WAS DIRECTED TOWARD (1) THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY STAFF MEMBERS, (2) THE IDENTIFICATION OF OTHER COMMUNITY RESOURCES CAPABLE OF…

THESE PROFILES PROVIDE EXTENSIVE DATA ON POVERTY, POPULATION TRENDS, EDUCATION, WELFARE, CRIME, AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN 20 MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS. FISCAL YEAR 1967 APPROPRIATIONS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, FOR BASIC AND OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING, AND FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARE ALSO LISTED. THE POPULATION, POVERTY, AND EDUCATION…

DESCRIBED ARE THE COMPONENTS OF PROJECT KNOW HOW (PKH), AN OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM. DESIGNED TO ATTACK INDIVIDUAL FAMILIAL POVERTY, PKH INVOLVES A PRESCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAM BEGINNING IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE AND CONTINUING TO SCHOOL AGE, A SALARIED ASSISTING MOTHERS PROGRAM, A FATHER'S PROGRAM, AND A FAMILY HEALTH…

This report of three conferences (held on July 8, 1967) conducted in conjunction with the Appalachia Cooperative Program in Teacher Education begins with an introduction plus an orientation to and a description of the Appalachia Area Project. Included for each conference are an outline of conference objectives, papers presented, and a summary of…

This paper calls for the involvement of social scientists in developing programs and directions for social change. Their research could illuminate the social reform aspects of the civil rights movement and the consequences of the movement on minority-group activists, nonparticipants, and the majority group. Studies could also be made of the effect…

In this section of a larger work on manpower development, a West Virginia labor leader, a former university president, and the Under Secretary of Labor examine the present and potential relevance of formal education and training. Criticizing the inability or unwillingness of educational institutions to adapt to the needs of disadvantaged youth and…