The collection of papers bearing on language and poverty comprising this book includes: "Some Preliminaries and Prospects" (F. Williams); "Teaching Reading in an Urban Negro School System" (J. Baratz); "A Sociolinguistic Approach to Socialization" (B. Bernstein); "Some Philosophical Influences Underlying Preschool Intervention for Disadvantaged…

The General Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor has compiled policy papers on the educational needs of the seventies in order to deepen Congressional understanding of these issues. The first section of the compendium consists of essays which have been prepared at the invitation of the Subcommittee by a…

A consideration of nutrition and intellectual growth opens with a glossary of 12 terms and two reports on hunger in America, one by J.L. Frost and B.L. Payne, the other by the Citizens' Board of Inquiry into Hunger and Malnutrition. Included are articles on nutrition and intellectual development in children, by M. Winick; maternal diet, growth,…

This annotated bibliography capsules in two sections literature related to the professional education of teachers which appeared between July 1967 and June 1968. Section 1 contains 466 entries and is organized into five categories dealing with the current setting of teacher education (developments and conditions) and program proposals for teacher…

The narrative descriptions of local school district projects in North Carolina, funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, are offered in this volume. Information, including photographs, are presented for each of the eight educational districts and for the special schools. Statistical information is also included. (NH)

The conference was conducted in order to propose solutions to the problems that confront the Mexican American student in higher education in areas of recruitment, retention, and financial assistance. Colleges and universities from 5 Southwestern states sent teams (student, faculty member, administrator, junior college representative, high school…

The symposium presented at the 1969 American Educational Research Association meeting was concerned with program development for rural isolated school districts and the opportunities for research opened through this project for educational improvement. The papers from the symposium describe an on-going program which can have great influence in…

The development of understandings, attitudes, and appreciation appropriate for selective state and local vocational-technical educators, guidance personnel, general educators, and federal personnel with potential responsibilities for residential vocational education programs comprise the focus of this conference. Working papers which were…

In a pilot study based on a technique to assess the dimensions of self concept held by young children, 38 lower socioeconomic status Negro and 36 upper-middle socioeconomic status white four-year-old children were given the Brown-IDS Self Concept Referents Test, and retested after three weeks; there was a relatively high level of reliability in…

The first phase of an 8-year longitudinal study of the onset and development of delinquency and behavior problems recruited 400 eight- and nine-year-old boys in a densely populated working class urban district. Assessment was made through psychological tests, teachers' and psychiatric social workers' reports, and parent interviews and…

In an attempt to clarify the problems of educational planning for disadvantaged college youth, this report presents a study of the characteristics of the learner which are related to academic achievement and an analysis of the pressures and expectations of college curriculums. Behavior and attitudinal traits of disadvantaged black youth are…

The stated goal of this project was to accomplish two broad objectives: (1) to give educators an opportunity to observe and work with culturally disadvantaged children with learning disabilities, and (2) to evaluate the impact of an individualized remedial program for these children. This report describes and discusses project-related activities…

The purpose of this study was to relate the occupational psychology of high school principals to the emergent problems of urban secondary education. Research was conducted through extended personal interviews and a series of seminars on topics relevant to secondary education. Individually, the principals emerged as embattled administrators.…

Three studies were conducted to develop and evaluate a diagnostically based curriculum for disadvantaged preschool children. The population consisted of 139 white and 4 Negro Appalachian 5-year-olds from the lowest socioeconomic class, who scored from 50 to 85 on the 1960 Stanford-Binet L-M Intelligence Scale. One of the 3 groups organized…

The story of how the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company became involved with an inner-city school is related. Central High School, in the midst of Newark, New Jersey, an area hit hard by fires and rioting, had apparent reading problems among other problems common to today's inner-city schools. Personnel from New Jersey Bell together with some staff…