Discusses an intervention program designed to provide the disadvantaged male with a competent model, a set of appropriate roles, and an opportunity for positive, role-derived interaction. (JM)

Argues that in teaching standard English to groups which, like Eskimos and speakers of Hawaiian Pidgin, are quite removed from mainstream American culture, role playing, as natural human behavior, can provide the bridge between classroom drill and real-life utilization of new language patterns. (FB)

The appropriateness of the Metropolitan Achievement Tests for economically deprived urban children was the subject of this article. It was concluded that due to item difficulty other tests should be considered. (Author/BY)

Includes a list of some of the assignments made and poems written by several students. (RD)

Reviews trends and influences in English education during the past decade and predicts changes that will transpire during the '70s; appears also in "Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 5 (May 1970), 607-11. (SW)

Reviews trends and influences in English education during the past decade and predicts changes that will transpire during the '70s; appears also in "English Journal," vol. 59, no. 5 (May 1970), 692-96. (SW)

Describes a program in Chicago in which clusters of ethnically similar and geographically close ghetto schools have pooled their resources to create instructional television programs more closely related to the needs of their students than are the programs available through the district wide ITV system. (LS)

"An early learning program where children are free to select the materials for their own education and where peer teaching is actively promoted." Part of a longer special report available from: Grade Teacher Reprints, 23 Leroy Ave., Darien, Conn. 06820. (No. 91291, 75J) (Author/AP)

Argues that there is little in written American history adverting to the heritage of the black American. Relates the effects of this record on the self image held by black Americans. (RJ)