This research attempted to determine 1) the personality profiles of disadvantaged Black adolescents on Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and Gough's Adjective Checklist (ACL), 2) if this group differed significantly on the VPI from Blacks attending college, and 3) what implications for programming and planning could be determined…

As a supplement to an article on the theory of introducing nonprofessionals into ordinary schools to work with disadvantaged or emotionally vulnerable children, a teacher aide program tested in six English schools was described. (GW)

A class of socially maladjusted, emotionally disturbed innercity adolescents responded enthusiastically to developing individual and group poems. (CL)

Discusses the techniques used in motivating students in an innercity junior high school to read for pleasure. (JM)

The authors provide a historical perspective of activities of the past two decades that attempted to ensure that minority and disadvantaged students are recruited for and retained in allied health education programs. Focus is on (1) recruitment programs, (2) retention programs (both before and during the academic year), and (3) recommendations.…

Discusses a project developed to help vocational trade and industrial teachers in the Indiana State service region work more effectively with special learners. (JOW)

Describes an evaluation of a summer career awareness workshop program for economically disadvantaged youth. The evaluation found that three-fourths of the 96 participants reported that as a result of the three-day workshop, they were closer to making a career decision. (CT)

Findings from a review of 47 studies of compensatory education programs, most including work in mathematics, are briefly reported. (MNS)

Gives a brief overview of the three types of schools in India--government operated, government aided, and private schools. Discusses affirmative action programs for minorities and the Non-Formal Education program for children who have never attended school or have dropped out early. (CMG)

Students from a large urban high school studied a biology unit with one of four instructional modes: timed audio-tutorial, self-paced audio-tutorial, traditional with study guides, traditional with visual aids. The self-paced audio-tutorial group performed significantly better than did the other groups. (MLH)

Analyzes four instructional methods used to teach biology to disadvantaged high school students in terms of learning efficiency (net gain mean/total time mean). Concludes that individualized methods are more efficient than group methods. (MLH)

Examined with 177 disadvantaged elementary school students (5-9 years old, 99 percent Blacks) were the effects of the provision of a nutritionally fortified low-lactose food supplement on hematocrit values (volume percentage of erythrocytes in whole blood), growth, absenteeism, and lunch consumption. (IM)

One model for effective workforce development--long-term, comprehensive career pathways combining post-secondary education, customized training and paid work experience--is an expensive one, frequently difficult for workforce agencies or postsecondary institutions employing traditional policies and practices to implement. But, by rethinking the…

Bill Gates and the governors were quite vague about what makes the schools obsolete or what to do about it. What is it, exactly, that schools are not teaching that they need to? Bill Gates also claimed that American kids were at the top in fourth grade, but at the bottom by 12th. The author congratulates Gates for focusing some attention on…

It is critical that teachers and administrators seek out and serve the invisible children in their classrooms and schools. When they acknowledge the condition of homeless and foster children, they can begin to address their unique learning needs and close their learning gaps. Based on definitions provided by the McKinney-Vento Act, some schools…