This manual is a guide to setting up a project to work with disadvantaged urban youth. It is based on the Dalston Youth Project, an English program that combines mentoring with an education program to reconnect young people to mainstream education, training, and employment opportunities. The manual is designed to be used by statutory bodies,…

This paper explores how "equity" and "risk" can call into question the ecology of a school. It suggests that failing to follow a holistic approach to a school problem can produce solutions that fail the students the effort was intended to assist. Examining schooling as a process of social production and reproduction leads to…

Student "teachability"--the advantages and disadvantages that students bring to school--is often offered as an excuse for educational failure. Many claim that students are less teachable than they used to be, and that reforms cannot meaningfully improve student achievement due to problems like poverty and social dysfunction. This study measures…

A simple electrical board programed to provide measurement of a nutrition day camp's objectives was fun for eight and nine year old inner-city youths to use; incorporation of pictures aided comprehension. Results indicate that the testing technique was appropriate to the clientele and the program content on the right track. (AJ)

There is a communication and articulation problem today between vocational educators and persons from special education and guidance. Those in special education, guidance and vocational education should effectively communicate and work together to solve the complex problem of providing quality vocational education for the handicapped and…

Study samples suggest that the high ability underachiever is characterized by low need for order and higher need to belong to supportive groups; the high ability achiever seems more independent and less attached to his peer group. (Author)

Describes how New York City's unusual compensatory education program helps poor students become good students. (Author/DN)

Analyzes the viewpoints of conservatives and liberals toward poor students through a survey of student teachers, placing special emphasis on the poverty information levels of the respondents in the study, and concluding that it is quite plausible that ideology filters information. (Author/JM)

Institutions that are responsible for teacher training programs must provide specific methods and techniques for successfully dealing with students whose background and ethnic heritage is other than white, protestant and middle class. (Author)

Comparison, over four years, of academic performance (reading, algebra, and weighted GPAs) of two groups of students regularly admitted, via an admissions test, and one group specially admitted, via a summer program, to a specialized high school in New York City showed significant differences at the .05 level. (Author/JA)

Research shows that a simple 23 element syllabary can be acquired with ease by innercity and suburban kindergartners. See related article by Kenneth S. Goodman, CS 705 852. (Author/RB)

Most striking finding was the mean 10-point IQ incn programs which utilize the discovery of such IQ increases as evidence development

This paper describes an attempt to apply in Israel a program developed in the United States to help parents improve interaction with their children who had learning problems. (ST)

Describes the pilot programs now going on in New Jersey aimed at finding better ways of educating inner-city Americans. Article Summarizes the various programs in different cities. (GB)