Identifies common threads in lives of those who escape ghetto. (Editor)

Part of the special section, EDUCATION IN THE GHETTO, prepared by Saturday Review and the Committee for Economic Development to explore the problems of the education of the disadvantaged.

This 47-page evaluative guide to films on jobs, training, and the ghetto was prepared at the first International Job Film Fair. The Fair was held in New York City, May 21-22, 1969, and was sponsored by the American Foundation on Automation and Employment. Films were obtained through a variety of film, industrial, and educational media. The panel…

This article describes a science education program in an urban ghetto school. (PD)

America is failing its young Black boys. In metropolitan ghettos, rural villages and midsized townships across the country, schools have become holding tanks for populations of Black boys who have a statistically higher probability of walking the corridors of prison than the halls of college. Across America, the problem of Black male achievement…

Part of the special section, EDUCATION IN THE GHETTO, prepared by Saturday Review and the Committee for Economic Development to explore the problems of the education of the disadvantaged.

Educational technology offers apparently unlimited promises to furnish instructional tools that will enable educators to capitalize, in ghetto schools, on the findings of research on the learning process. The successful use of this technology demands a cooperative approach to curriculum development, a retraining of school personnel, and a plan of…

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

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)