These are four congressional hearings on youth unemployment with particular reference to the Youth Incentive Employment Act, H.R. 5017, which would establish a program to provide part-time school year and full-time summer employment to economically disadvantaged youth pursuing further education or training. Another focus of the hearings was H.R.…

A practicum designed to facilitate the transition of Head Start children to kindergarten was implemented by the education coordinator of a Head Start program. The program served 945 poverty-level children in 35 classrooms and 20 home-based sites in 35 school districts in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Practicum goals were to prepare children for…

Projects Return constitutes an attempt by the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools to bring school dropouts back into the school system. During 1986-87, Project Return handled 123 percent more referrals than during 1985-86, the project's first year; the actual figures were 1,091 and 489, respectively. Economically disadvantaged youth make up a large…

This booklet compiles five Congressional Acts for use by the House Committee on Education and Labor. The "Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981" provides for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to authorize grants to States to assist eligible households to meet the costs of home energy, up to the amount of $2,140,000,000…

A comprehensive review was undertaken of the serious problem of youth unemployment in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (most of the countries of Europe and the United States), and the means for dealing with it in the longer term. The study found that youth unemployment has been a major concern since…

Through a study, strategies were investigated to increase the role of in-school youth in creating job opportunities. Drawing upon qualitative data provided by the Youthwork National Policy Study, researchers examined four youth-operated employment projects in order to isolate those factors that either hinder or facilitate the implementation of a…

A study was undertaken to determine whether four commercially prepared language programs would bring about better gains in the language achievement of disadvantaged preschool children than would activities planned by teachers themselves. The four commercial programs included the Peabody Language Development Kit: Preschool (PLDK-P); the Ginn…

A group of students of average intelligence, from backgrounds incongruous with higher education, who were all higher education bound were identified to study internal psychological dynamics of achievement. The students' values related to a positive or negative identification with parental values. Students displayed a wide range of personality…

Examines the activities in several towns in western Colorado of the Chicago Education Project, an organization which attempts to make Colorado schools more responsive to Chicano students by increasing the number of bilingual/bicultural classes and the number of Chicano teachers. (JM)

Describes the author's experiences and reactions as an "observant learner" in "Hensen School," located in the central area of a Midwestern city; the school had about 850 students, all black, and 85 percent on ADC, with 100 adults participating daily in the school's activities. (JM)

Discusses the findings of a study of the academic records of some 32000 students enrolled in five California community colleges which admitted anyone over 18 who applied in 1970 and 1971; the academic records of students with and without a high school diploma were compared. (Author/JM)

This study further investigates the effectiveness of compensatory educational programs. Results indicate that a comprehensive enrichment program can reduce the wide gap in achievement skills between less capable students and their more capable peers. (Author)

Reviewed are the results of 38 studies which attempted to train educable and trainable mentally retarded, disadvantaged and other children in psycholinguistic skills and which used the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities as the criterion of improvement. (LC)

Progress, problems, and solutions for minority groups--including women--in technical education are recounted by the authors, who urge colleges for technical educators to devise courses and internships which focus on technical education for minority groups and the disadvantaged. (AJ)

YMCA works with private schools to offer counseling, prevocational training, career preparation, and placement. (Author)