These five articles systematically discuss the shifts in social policy in the first four years of the Reagan administration and how they affected the elderly. Changes included are federal budget cuts, distribution of income, material needs status of older adults, status of the poor, income inequality among the elderly, and measuring hardship. (ABL)

Discusses the changes in the aims of education over the years and points to the importance of planning and implementing changing goals if they are to result in appropriate improvements in education. (JOW)

Every year, across the country, a dangerously high percentage of students disproportionately poor and minority-disappear from the educational pipeline before graduating from high school. According to a study released by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) and the Urban Institute in 2004, only about 68% of all students nationally…

This report addresses questions concerning the extent to which U.S. families depend on income from welfare programs, offering updated data on measures of welfare recipiency, dependency, and predictors of welfare dependence developed for previous reports. Chapter 1, "Introduction," reviews specific summary measures of welfare dependence…

A 70-acre farm adjacent to the high school in Franklin, Kentucky, was purchased six years ago by the board of education for the use of the agriculture department. FFA members are proud of their farm and have grown through experiences of rehabilitation, development, production, and marketing it has provided. (AJ)

A summary of findings is presented of the Graduated Work Incentive Experiment (New Jersey-Pennsylvania "negative income tax" experiment). The experiment studied the effects of payment of substantial amounts of unearned income to poor families on the labor-supply response of such families. (EA)

Benefit Alert was designed to help the low-income aged of Philadelphia take advantage of material benefits they were entitled to under existing state and federal legislation. An implicit goal of the project was to test a governmental agency's ability to be an advocate for the poor. (Author)

Author comments on field teaching and alternative education from a sociological point of view; in general, he agrees with the field teacher concept as a new organizational form." (Author/SP)

Forty-four hard core welfare recipients were administered the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. The profiles were intercorrelated and factor analyzed. Two distinct groups were depicted. The first group characteristics were dependency and rigidity, while the second one characterized self res\riction and restraint. Counseling strategies were…

Willingness to work is the only collateral required of the disadvantaged by this subsidiary of a Georgia bank. (BH)

Discusses existing child and maternal health care services, the growing need for new projects and manpower, and the costs of such programs. (AJ)