This document reports the Cycle II Teacher Corps Urban Program at the University of Southern California, a 2-year effort to prepare teachers to work effectively in disadvantaged communities of such diverse racial and ethnic groups as Negroes, Mexican Americans, poor whites, Japanese, Koreans, and Samoans. There is brief description of the two…

The first section of this position paper traces the background of the problem of equal opportunity for the culturally, economically, and psychologically disadvantaged (migrant farm laborers, mountain whites, Negroes, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and Mexican Americans). The second section discusses ways and means of overcoming the problem…

The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Job Corps Student Teaching project focused on Job Corps centers as feasible environments for providing realistic counseling experiences for counselors-in-training. Major training objectives were to provide the University of Maine counselor trainee actual counseling experience with…

The use of tournament forensics in teaching vital skills to the disadvantaged is discussed. Four case histories illustrate the success of such an approach to providing students with basic communication skills. Some of the difficulties peculiar to working with the underskilled in an academic environment are described. (DB)

This paper deals with a tragedy in the field of human services. The tragedy lies in the fact that a program with a fair modicum of success will not be continued because the decision-makers in the state government concerned with this area decided with insufficient justification to end this program after the summer of 1968. Six hundred boys, nine to…

Guidelines are provided for the professional youth staff member in Iowa to use in developing and implementing an educational program for youth in the inner city. The proposed guidelines are related to both organization and program, using the present 4-H and Youth Program as a base for developing programs for inner city youth. (DB)

Full-year Head Start programs are listed in State order in this directory. Mailing address and director's name are provided for each program. Locations of OCD regional offices are provided in an appendix. (KM)

The selected bibliography on minority groups and disadvantaged youth contains approximately 100 abstracts with indexing information drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of August, 1972. Abstracts were chosen using the criteria of availability of…

Pilot study. Microcounseling format is base-line measurement, training, and re-interview designed for individualized training. (DAG)

Examined relationships among sex and math/science career self-efficacy, interests, and consideration for disadvantaged students. Findings indicated sex differences in self-efficacy for three math/science careers; no sex difference for nonmath/science careers. Career consideration was related to interest. For females, confidence in meeting…

Culturally deprived (N=70) and middle-class (N=64) Israeli sixth graders were tested for creative responses to visual, aural, and verbal stimuli. Nondeprived Ss performed better on 16 out of 27 measures. The gap was not equally wide in all subtests, and verbal expression was an inhibiting factor. (CL)

In September 2003, the Head Start Bureau, in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF), implemented the National Reporting System (NRS), the first nationwide skills test of over 400,000 4- and 5-year-old children. The NRS is intended to provide information on how well Head Start grantees are…

This snapshot of children on the California border examines the well-being of children along the U.S.-Mexico border, comparing California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. It indicates more than one-quarter of all California residents are foreign born (26%), compared to 8% of residents in non-border states. In Texas, the percentage of the population…

There is a class of largely ignored children for whom the crisis in American education means total noneducation or miseducation. The author examines a limited constitutional right to education which can be invoked to protect these neglected children. (Editor)

Reports on self-evaluation by one agency: the Jewish Children Bureau of Metropolitan Chicago. The evaluation conclusion is that the agency could justify its foster care placements on the basis of the data collected. (DP)