Authors contend that a viable alternative exists to the use of social textbooks which do not meet the needs of minority students. (CB)

Results strongly indicate that those Ss who remained within their home environment had more chance of achieving a positive change in mean SCOAA score than those Ss who were removed from their environment. (Author)

Describes a program for qualified but financially disadvantaged high school juniors to work and attend Atlantic Community College during the summer. (PG)

Sets forth the notion that the objective of art education may be the development of self-expression and creativity, but more importantly it is the attempt to achieve a harmonious and aesthetic interaction between man and his environment. (DS)

Instructional techniques and examples of some of the mathematics problems used in a remedial college mathematics course for disadvantaged students are described. (DT)

Project Broad Jump is a New York-based education program for some 600 youngsters from urban areas, in the third through tenth grades. The basic concept of the program is that academic opportunities are not accessible to many inner-city youth, whereas Head Start and Follow Through help pre-third graders, and Upward Bound helps high school students.…

Discusses the language problems of America's culturally disadvantaged, explains the process of acculturation, and suggests changes in English instruction for these groups. (SP)

The reading fare of all children, regardless of their cultural background, must merge the new and the strange with what is believable, authentic, familiar and immediate. Discusses the why and how to do this. Bibliography. (Author/RB)

The data of the present study supplement those given by Vane and also provide a context in which to assess the differential abilities of Negro and Puerto Rican Head Start Children on verbal and performance tasks. (Author)

Pertinent practices and their effectiveness are reviewed, with the studies focusing on special groups of slow learners, agriculture students, noncollege bound students, girls, and inner city students ranging from kindergarten to college. (Author)