The Chairman of the National Gypsy Education Council here describes sympathetically and factually the Gypsy parents' predicament over their children's education, and gives examples of the arrangements made in the last few years to overcome their problems. (Author/JM)

Describes the West Riding Educational Priority Area Project, set up in December 1968, the purpose of which was to assess the social, educational and economic factors which might affect the children's academic performance, and to try to find ways of helping them develop their potential. (Author/JM)

After briefly reviewing the social, educational and intellectual response to twentieth century immigration, the author focuses on literature dealing with the education of the culturally disadvantaged,'' dating from July 1961 to June 1969. (JM)

Reviews recent projects on the education of immigrants within the framework of the six suggestions for research made by the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigrations; e.g. the effects on children of various educational arrangements for immigrants; methods of teaching race relations in schools; and others. (Author/JM)

Analyzes the battle over day care, which seems today particularly violent as the earlier group of its proponents has been joined by an active and sometimes militant group of women's liberationists who believe that the country should provide 24 hour services for all children, and by newly formed community groups. (Author/JM)

Gives an eight-point plan for building rapport with disadvantaged students. (DS)

In efforts to place more effective social workers in the barrios and ghettoes, this program recruited potential college students from those areas, and provided them with support in academic skill development on-site classes; field placement; and supportive services. The most serious kinds of problem faced by these young people lie in the area of…

When predicting work adjustment for disadvantaged trainees, intelligence tests will predict better for whites than blacks. Additional data suggest that the counselor who is interested in predicting the work adjustment of his clients should be aware of the need to develop different prediction criteria for whites and blacks. (Author)

The text of testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs concerning the participation of the San Diego Independent School District in the National School Lunch program, by the district superintendent. (JM)

The results of a creative writing survey among sixth grade disadvantaged pupils indicate that conventional test scores help identify given levels of developed skills, and such skills are related to effective writing. (Author/NL)

Discusses steps vocational educators must take to avoid intrusion of industry-government performance contracting. (SB)

Extends the findings of a study of relationships of some educational inputs and reading performance of disadvantaged California Title I pupils, utilizing a highly simplified model of the compensatory education process. (JM)

A subsidiary purpose of this study was to initially explore the value of visual representations of family life as tools to improve the family perceptions of preschool disadvantaged children. (Authors)