A paper presented at Anglo-American Seminar on Teaching English to the Linguistically Deprived (Walsall, England, June 1968). (Editor/RD)

Two programs designed for the disadvantaged are described--(1) the Transitional Year Program, which prepares the student for regular college courses, and (2) the Urban University Development Program, which pays for an entire 4-year college course. (JW)

Eleven specific innovations are listed that should be considered by educators committed to the ideal of a humane and open society. (JH)

Concerned with aspiration and level of aspiration of 415 girls from Job Corps Center. Both educational and ethnic considerations are to be given in counseling disadvantaged youth. Expresses paucity of professional material devoted to vocational counseling of less than a college prepared person. (Author)

Changes in the social setting of the 1970's could eliminate the need for a special curriculum for the disadvantaged child, with the exception of preschool programs. A more critical need appears to be improved teaching methods capable of rewarding and improving the self-image of disadvantaged children. (JH)

Study determines whether middle class teachers could or could not predict how disadvantaged students would respond on twenty question inventory dealing with sex attitudes. (Author)

Four vanguard districts are committed to raising academic scores of students by increasing academic learning time; to turning average schools for disadvantaged students into exemplary schools; and, by carefully charting the process, to providing a scenario that can be useful to other schools. (Author/JM)