Examines the dialects" of poverty, frustration, repression, make-believe, and authoritarianism; a paper presented at annual Conference on English Education (7th, Syracuse, New York, March 29, 1969). (SW)

Article describes the problems that student teachers encounter when entering the urban educational field and how they are able to cope with these problems. (ML)

Results show that peer tutoring (versus adult tutoring) and tokens for reading (versus tokens for attendance) did substantially and significantly improve the rate at which the children learned to read. (Authors)

Provides information drawn from findings of several experimental projects for disadvantaged youth that concentrate on short-term orientation as a prelude to fast placement in jobs or training. (SB)

The restructuring of the Job Corps and its integration with other manpower programs is described. (BH)

Describes a new mode of functioning for school psychologists and counselors based on an ecological, preventive model differing sharply from traditional counseling programs; it entails active reaching out or program initiation intended to enhance key systems which affect learning and emotional growth and development of children. (RJ)

Describes program at Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh. (RT)

Having reviewed other studies, author describes a behavior modification program in a ghetto school which succeeded only after one teacher was led to change her own behavior. Material rewards were used as incentives to the children. One child originally rated below average and troublesome became the class model student. (PD)

A description of Adult Basic Education programs in the United States and of pilot projects in elementary and secondary schools and correctional institutions in which the ABE program was tried with success. (JB)

The findings imply that as a result of their early experience in a particular social setting, children enter school with differentiated concepts of self and others. Thus, for both achieving and non-achieving rural Southern Negro pupils, materials and approaches designed for typical white, middle class children will require sensitive…