This document is a legislative proposal submitted in the U. S. House of Representatives for the funding of a summer sports program for disadvantaged youths. The proposed program would seek to provide such people with an opportunity for sports instruction and competition in a context of high quality facilities and supervision, including instruction…

The 17-month (1967-1968) study summarized in this report concerned experimental analysis of the verbal behavior of disadvantaged preschool children (an interracial group of 28, ranging in age from 30 months to 42 months). Research was conducted in the verbal behavior laboratory at the University of Rochester and in a remodeled private home in a…

Discussed in this paper are the problems of evaluation research on a program for disadvantaged youth in Israel. (Author/EB)

Describes how older students in an Educational Opportunity Program were selected and trained to function as peer counselors and group facilitators to aid freshmen students in adjusting to a university setting. In addition, an outline describing structured activities to be used in the group-counseling setting is included. (Author)

Because of the enormity of challenges that confront teachers in urban schools, teachers should be finely trained in an intensive educational program. (JD)

Disadvantaged White Americans should be actively and sincerely encouraged in their present pursuit of postgraduate and professional education by the adoption of admission procedures which take into account the various indices of social and economic disadvantage through which they have had to labor. (Author/EB)

The relation of imaginative play to psycholinguistic development was investigated in a sample of disadvantaged preschool children. The children were assigned to high and low play groups based on their level of play organization. The high play group engaged in more task-relevant speech during play than did the low play group. (Author)

The STAIC (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children) was administered to 1,522 third and fourth grade Black disadvantaged children from a large metropolitan school district. (Author)

The author lists and discusses nine patterns of errors that students in an inner city secondary English class exhibited during a six week writing skills development session. (Author/RK)

Argues that the Green Paper should be concerning itself more with education for parenthood than for employment. (Editor)

Shows that attrition/persistence (dropouts or students not continuously enrolled versus students continuously enrolled) is the primary, significant, single variate in the prediction of grades, and that attrition/persistence and American College Test (ACT) scores are the significant multiple variates in the prediction of grade point average. (RL)

The role of speech-language pathologists in developing Standard English skills among inner city children is seen to include dispelling negative attitudes toward linguistic and cognitive abilities of minority children, developing classroom stimulation programs, and eliminating cultural biases in language oriented materials. (CL)

Evaluates facets of the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children. (KS)