Despite recent accomplishments in minority higher education, there is still much to be done in New York, a city experiencing a severe fiscal crisis. The most serious impediment to expanding post-secondary opportunities is the financial problems of the country and the impact of a depressed economy on colleges. (Author/AM)

Provides insights into the problems involved in legislating social services for families and children. (ED)

Discusses a summer program for disadvantaged junior and senior high school students intended to offer career education in aviation. The program included flight and ground school and simulator instruction. (MLH)

Current hypotheses about language and language development have certain important implications for the study of language acquisition and function, especially in disadvantaged or minority children. According to these hypotheses, traditional theories concerning linguistic deprivation and related factors are no longer valid. (Author/EB)

A comprehensive assessment made over a six-year period of 97 children reported their adjustment and attitudes to both junior and secondary school, language skills, school achievements, and aspects of personality. (MP)

The Summer Youth Program, formerly the Neighborhood Youth Corps, held at the Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee, is designed to provide summer employment to the community's disadvantaged. This article describes a plan to improve the overall effectiveness of the Summer Youth Program, which is applicable to other universities and…

The evaluation by Abt Associates, Inc., of the Follow Through program, an extension of Head Start designed to improve primary education for disadvantaged children, created a controversy about the program and its assessment, which is discussed in this article. The authors see serious flaws in the evaluation design and interpretation. (MF)

Effects of the label "mentally retarded" and academic competence on 96 low-income sixth-grade children's attitudes toward peers were examined. (Author)

Relationships between six home environment measures, achievement and intelligence tests were examined by stepwise multiple regression analyses for a sample of 60 eight-year old children. Home variables were most successful in predicting achievement test scores, less successful regarding culture-dependent intelligence test scores, and least…

Suggests that there are six prerequisites to successful teaching in any inner city or disadvantaged school, and that these prerequisites must be the foundation upon which the educational philosophy of the school's teachers is based if programs in such schools are to have any impact on the educational development of the students. (Author/RK)

Introduces a plan which combines affirmative action and cooperative education as an approach to reaching the disadvantaged student. This plan centers around cooperative work experiences and emphasizes articulation with four-year institutions, and will give students a chance at upward mobility and new job opportunities. (TP)

The relationship between teachers' attitudes and behavior and the subsequent adult status of sixty children was examined. The findings showed a positive correlation between one first grade teacher and the adult success of children from a disadvantaged urban neighborhood. Includes fourteen tables of data. (EM)

Designed to teach special needs students (disadvantaged and handicapped) the vocational terminology and concepts necessary for their chosen vocational or industrial program, the Career Related Instructional (CRI) modules described in this article comprise a set of 1800 student-directed, individualized learning packets which have been developed in…

A study based on data collected during in-depth interviews with a stratified random sample of 23 student families who attended the National Institute of Education (NIE) Career Education Model IV analyzed current perceptions and implied perceptual changes in self and social development. Positive results suggest that avenues of personal development…

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the vocational development process of tenth-grade disadvantaged students can be facilitated through deliberate intervention in the form of supplementary learning experiences. (Author)