Postsecondary education can and should play a major role in the development of intermediate and long-term resoution of the underlying causes of youth unemployment. A closer relationship is urged between unemployed youth and the higher education community. (Author/LBH)

Discusses advantages of programmed instructional materials and suitability for use in inner city schools, programmed instruction in shorthand, and pertinent research in using programmed materials in shorthand instruction; concludes that these materials and techniques have been and can be successfully used. (TA)

Discusses youth work in India, the role of the youth worker, the importance of helping youth to bring about social change, the need for youth clubs to integrate and motivate young people as agents of social change, and the problems of youth training. (MF)

Federal vocational rehabilitation, social, and educational legislation since 1917 is reviewed as it pertains to education of handicapped and disadvantaged students. Implications for industrial education programs and for teachers of the special needs students are included. (MF)

Results of a study designed to distinguish between attitude development of rural disadvantaged high school students enrolled in exemplary special vocational programs and those enrolled in nonvocational general programs showed that disadvantaged vocational students exhibited more positive attitudes toward self and other school social relations and…

The study compared 17 abused children with 17 children who had been in accidents, matched for age, race, sex, and socioeconomic status, eight years after all had been studied as infants. (Author)

Students not fitting the traditional pattern of white middle class backgrounds are labeled new students. (JP)

Describes the activities and programs of Georgia's Vocational Opportunities Clubs of America, a vocational youth organization for disadvantaged and handicapped students designed to meet the special needs of potential dropouts. By 1977, a total of 6,500 students were participating in local clubs throughout the State in contests, leadership…

Responses to papers in this Quarterly by Roger W. Shuy and Courtney B. Cazden. (JM)

The visual-motor integration of preschool children who varied in terms of race, sex, and socioeconomic status was assessed using the Beery Buktenica Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI). An analysis of covariance revealed that there were significant main effects for race, sex, and socioeconomic status. (Author)

This paper describes a decision-theory-based procedure for compensatory education student selection that will increase the informational value of data available from program evaluation data collection and district information systems. The information produced by the decision theory approach bears directly on the basic question of who gets served.…

Recent research on science achievement among disadvantaged students in grades K-12 is reviewed. Findings on effects of race, SES, and several classroom factors are discussed. Patterns of preparation and science career choice are examined from the perspectives of students' gender, attitudes toward science, and counseling of minority students. (MCK)

Drawing upon research and the literature on socialization, social psychology and drug abuse, an ethnographically informed, social context model of the actor is developed and its implications for prevention activities among ghetto youths examined. (Author)

An attempt to assess the quality of black student life at an unnamed State University during the late sixties which concludes that the responsibility for its content must be borne by all segments of the university community, i.e. administration, faculty and students; the university's lack of concern for the success of programs for black students…

Teach For America (TFA) was founded in 1989 to address the educational inequities facing children in low-income communities across the United States by expanding the pool of teacher candidates available to the schools those children attend. TFA recruits seniors and recent graduates from colleges around the country, people who are willing to…