A summer program has been initiated by the Office of Minority Affairs at New York Medical College with the aims of providing educationally and economically disadvantaged minority college students with the academic support, study skill guidance, and career guidance needed for preparation for entrance into medical school. (Author)

This planning workbook is the first of its kind, written in 1969 to explain the process of career development and to help agencies put the process into practice. This guide is divided into the following sections: (1) The Need for OEO/CAP Career Development; (2) The Career Development Process (Task Identification, Functional Job Analysis,…

Described is a project in which poor Black and White parents were trained by paraprofessional visitors to use simple stimulation activites with their infants. Results of Stanford-Binet Scores at age 6 are said to indicate that four of the seven experimental groups scored significantly higher than control groups; and followup at grade 3 indicated…

In order to determine whether poverty is the result of the work orientation of the poor, a secondary analysis of data obtained from a stratified sample of the Houston population was conducted, controlling for age, sex, and ethnicity: the findings are interpreted as casting doubt on the "culture of overty" hypothesis as it relates to work…

The article's purpose is to help the reader develop an understanding of one's own values and attitudes toward poverty and to better understand how others view poverty. Two research perspectives are used: an adaptation of the value clarification process and the author's typology of societal values and attitudes towards poverty. (Author/BP)

To study the relationship between stuttering and expressive language and between verbal expression and socioeconomic status, 15 stutterers and 15 nonstutterers (5-to 10-years old) from lower socioeconomic (predominantly Mexican-American) and middle socioeconomic levels were given the Verbal Expression subtest of the Illinois Test of…

The poor evidently do not all think alike or react similarly to materials written for them. The authors suggest that professionals should reassess their communications approach to the poor, because of the sharply differing attitudes, opinions, and values which their study found among welfare recipients. Five well-defined groups are described.…

Condensed from "Phi Delta Kappan," Volume 50 (December 1968), 228-30.

Measures to directly create jobs have begun to occupy an important position in American economic policies. Most of these measures involve direct public service programs and employment subsidies. This paper explores the reasons for the emergence of such programs and notes that the economic rationale for these measures suggests a substantial…

This report is one of a series of papers presented to encourage discussion on the evaluation of important development issues. The recent emphasis within the Agency for International Development (AID) on knowing the impacts of development assistance, particularly the benefit incidence of projects and programs, makes it important to look at the…

The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills (BES). The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families.…

The role of the College of the City of New York (CCNY) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is described, particularly with regard to early Jewish immigrants. It is suggested that the myth of the "easy marriage" of Jewish values and American opportunities ignores the variety of Jewish culture and the drama of the vast…

This report discusses the administration of the 1977 summer food program for children. Widespread abuses in 1976 and earlier programs are reviewed. It is held that although some abuses did occur in 1977, these were fewer and less serious than before. Causes of the program abuses are discussed in detail, and include such factors as: (1) inadequate…