A focus group study examined child care experiences of 16 low-income women living in Cleveland, Ohio to gain an understanding of these women's experiences with child care in general and with the system that assures access to child care subsidies or vouchers for supported child care. Several themes emerged from the study: (1) parents prefer placing…

The paper aims to make a methodological contribution to the education segregation literature, providing a critique of previous measures of segregation used in the literature, as well as suggesting an alternative approach to measuring school segregation. It also provides new empirical evidence on changes in the extent of socio-economic segregation…

In this testimony Scott McCown testifies on behalf of the Center for Public Policy Priorities. The center is interested in public school finance because education is the pathway to prosperity for low-income Texans. McCown's personal expertise in school finance comes from having presided as a state district judge over the state's school finance…

Discusses several aspects of the 1970 report of the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children in an attempt to define areas in which professional psychologists may contribute to the realization of the goals established by the Commission; deals primarily with issues of a research nature. (Author/JM)

This study compared personality characteristics of junior and senior high school counselors serving economically disadvantaged and advantaged males. A Counseling Evaluation Inventory composite client-rating score (derived from seven clients) for each counselor was the effectiveness criterion. Clients from both economic populations perceived as…

Teachers at a school for emotionally disturbed children were given the IPC--i.e. they checked those characteristics that describe the "ideal" pupil and double-checked the five most important characteristics. When these teachers' responses were compared with those of fourth and fifth grade teachers in two public schools, a remarkable…

Discusses some of the problems of the culturally diverse and economically disadvantaged student in learning to read and achieving academic success. Several suggestions are offered as solutions for these problems. (TO)

Reports a study of the relationship between teacher-candidates' sociopolitical ideologies and their attitudes toward poverty and the disadvantaged among 591 undergraduate students of education at Indiana University and Southern Illinois University in the winter of 1971. (Author/JM)

The author, who is Chairman of Elementary Social Studies Methods at Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York, points out that the CUNY policy of open admissions reflects a switch from elitism based on high academic achievement in high school of largely white middle class youth, to egalitarianism. (Author/JM)

A series of articles by attorneys and educators on the impact of the recent Supreme Court decision on State school finance schemes. (JF)

Reports a study of 54 youngsters in Grades Three to Eight in the Eskimo village of Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island in northern Canada on their attitudes towards concepts related to urbanization, white'' established institutions in the village, foods, etc. (JM)

Discusses a 3-phase consumer education project designed for low-income clients with particular emphasis on utilities. (SB)