The Rural Family Development (RFD) Project endeavored to instruct disadvantaged adults in basic skills through a home-based, multi-media system. The report, the last of three, is divided into three sections. The first (18 pages) contains five essays defining the basic positions taken by the RFD staff and discussion of the influences these…

Too much of the debate over the five-year, 30 billion dollar program of State and Local Assistance has focussed on its presumed or theoretical impact. Too little has dealt with what actually happens when the quarterly Treasury checks arrive at the local level. Local-level studies that are under way concentrate heavily on the fiscal impact of…

The population surveyed consisted of all cases referred to the Social Service-Mental Health Section of the El Rio Santa Cruz Neighborhood Health Center (NHC) from June to October 1971. The NHC provides comprehensive mental health services to the predominantly Mexican American Model Cities area of Tucson, Arizona. The principal contact person at…

This book suggests a new model or new approach to the social systems operating in inner city schools which affect teaching and learning. One of the reasons we are not educating more urban lower class black youngsters is that urban educators are playing the game of teaching and learning by the wrong rules. The rules actually running the schools are…

The report covers a seventeen month demonstration project to design, develop and teach a health care career-oriented program for 60 enrollees of the Neighborhood Youth Corps in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The report concludes on whether the concept of a long-term career oriented program fits the experience or perceptions of enrollees and NYC staff,…

The Lincoln Center Student Program for 1971-72 was planned as a comprehensive program in the performing arts for senior high schools selected by the New York City Board of Education and located in federally designated poverty areas of New York City. The program was intended to provide a concentrated instructional program within the English…

Dr. Robert B. Hill's "The Strengths of Black Families" (New York: Emerson Hall Publishers, 1972, 76pp.), which includes a preface by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Executive Director of the Urban League, and a foreword by Andrew Billingsley, is reviewed. Dr. Hill begins by identifying five family strengths, which for blacks constitute "adaptations…

The trend in the early 1960's was toward manpower programs to help the unemployed and underemployed to get jobs and improve their job status through federally financed job training. The objective was to get those workers who had been trained in these programs into unsubsidized jobs. The trend toward job creation came later in the decade; the…

This report presents a comprehensive compilation of federal laws affecting education and reflects the latest changes in the laws related to elementary, secondary, higher, and vocational education. The compilation includes the School Lunch and the Child Nutrition Acts. (Author/JF)

The first phase of the study was a 2 x 2 factorial design, with locus of control and instructional method (lecture and demonstration) as independent variables and honor point average (HPA) as the dependent variable. The second phase used correlational techniques to test the extent to which reading performance and traditional predictors of…

The primary objectives of the New Nursery School were to increase children's sensory and perceptual acuity, develop positive self concept, and increase language, conceptual and problem solving abilities. During 1969-1970 the longitudinal study, begun in 1964, included 28 children who were 3- and 4-year-olds from lower socioeconomic homes…

Section 3602 of the New York State Education Law provides supplementary means of improving the teacher-learning situation for those students having special educational needs associated with poverty. Funds are provided on an annual basis, 1970-71 being the third one for receipt of such funds by New York City. This bulletin contains summaries of…

Phase 1 of this research project included summarizing available information concerning lower socioeconomic status (SES) rural youth. Phase 2 involved defining a research population, selecting a sample from that population, collecting and analyzing data, and comparing data to the summarized material available on lower SES youth. The population for…

In the spring of 1969, the Urban Center Curriculum Project undertook a comprehensive survey of minority-related curricul at 185 colleges and universities throughout the country. Information regarding compensatory education programs was one essential element in this inquiry. The institutions contacted were similar to Columbia in that they were…

The intent of this report, as stated, is to bring about an awareness of the kinds of problems faced by migrant agricultural workers (Mexican Americans and Navajos), by farmers, and by agencies offering services to these migrants in New Mexico. An overview of the national and state migrant situation is presented, as well as case studies of various…