Compared scores on the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) for disadvantaged youngsters (N=120). Results suggested that professionals using the CMI should use caution when working with disadvantaged youngsters since there is such a strong relationship to intelligence, as measured by the WAIS. (JAC)

A rebuttal by the author to critiques made by Michael Apple (see EA 504 331) and Barbara Presseisen (see EA 504 332) of his original paper on the rationale and methodology of process'' curriculums (see EA 504 330). (EA)

Priorities should be ordered so that improving human life in the urban ghetto is more important than saving trees. (FF)

Effective and accurate evaluations of inservice training programs for teachers of the disadvantaged are vitally needed. (LR)

A review of Disadvantaged Children: Health, Nutrition and School Failure (New York: Grune & Stratton, 1970) by Herbert G. Birch and Joan Dye Gussow. (DB)

Results of an experiment in critical listening by Negro elementary school students are reported. (DB)

The author is extemely critical of long-held concepts concerning poor children. (CK)

This California program has students learn and earn at the same time. (GB)

The librarian must consider how to reach the disadvantaged child through creative nontraditional methods. Most important, there must be a willingness to take the library to the child who cannot venture out of his ghetto, but who needs all the meaningful experiences that trained and dedicated librarians can give him. (MF)

The author, responding to an article in the April 1980 "Educational Leadership" states that he has not found any indication that the Kotter syndrome (from the television series "Welcome Back, Kotter") is a key to educating disadvantaged students. (Author/MLF)

Studied the early literacy practices of a 3-year-old Chinese girl in her family restaurant in an underprivileged community in Canada. The literacy practices indicate that home contexts have a role in shaping emergent literacy. Discusses implications for teaching minority children. (SLD)

This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming experiences of urban youth ages 8-18 at a Computer Clubhouse--an after school center--over an 18-month period. Our analyses of 536 Scratch projects collected during this…