Pointing out the nature and scope of talent loss among low socioeconomic and minority group members, the author identifies and explores some of the issues in the retrieval of talent potential. (Author)

Several institutions of higher learning combined their efforts and resources to develop a Neighborhood Program that would reach the disadvantaged people in the Savannah Model Cities. Discusses program design, problems, and results of taking the program to the people under conditions and situations to which they could easily identify or relate. (RB)

Describes a four-week summer session for Mexican-American high school sophomores in the urban Denver area to encourage them to attend college. It consists of discussion groups, lectures, and laboratories followed during the winter with some tutoring and counseling. (TS)

Study of fourth and fifth grade children of varying intelligence, language achievement and creativity suggests that they can be taught to express themselves poetically. (Author/RK)

In this interview Gordon McAndrew, one of the nation's most controversial administrators, offers plain talk about experimental teaching in educational systems. (Author/NH)

Proposed model for a cooperative educational effort, the Peer Group Learning Unit. (MB)

Head Start children were matched into two groups on the basis of disruptive behavior during rest periods. Attempts were made to modify their behavior using either instructions or token reinforcement procedures. Results suggest that a combination of reinforcement together with instructions is much more effective than either of these alone. (Author)

Philadelphia's Academy of Applied Electrical Science combines vocational education and industrial training resources to give inner city youth an occupational assist. (Editor)

Examines, through literature review, special problems and needs of educationally and culturally disadvantaged who find themselves in a new, often disinterested social and academic environment. Stresses necessity for "supportive psychological as well as academic atmosphere. Presented at APGA, Las Vegas, 1969. (CJ)