Part 1 of the second volume in a four volume collection, this document includes sections on housing, health, crime, and energy and focuses on such topics as: federal policies for low income housing; the future supply of housing; nonaffluent behavior and attitudes related to health and well being; costs, coverage, and issues in medicaid; the…

A detailed profile of the largest fresh-air education program in the country for disadvantaged youth -- Sea Ventures -- is provided in this document. Created entirely through the effort of volunteers, Sea Ventures provides learning opportunities that go beyond occupying youngsters. This multi-racial/lingual juvenile delinquency prevention program…

The Wichita, Kansas Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I Project was begun during the 1965-66 school year as a diversified attack on the problems of disadvantaged pupils. Over the past 10 years, the project has evolved to one which concentrates funds on a small number of programs. Supportive services have been eliminated in favor of…

This report presents a description and a brief evaluation of the Child Center Project, a bilingual-bicultural early childhood development program designed to prepare preschool Latino children to succeed in school without losing their bilingual-bicultural identity. Funded by the Office of Child Development, the three-year project was initiated in…

Research identifying the differences, and the relative importance of those differences, between successful and unsuccessful participants in the Work Incentive (WIN) Program is presented in terms of both successful employment at termination from WIN and employment after WIN participation. Over 800 former and current WIN 1 and 2 participants in…

In general, the lower-class student has been considered scholastically inferior to the child of middle-class origins. More specifically, such a child has frequently been explicitly or implicitly denied the benefits of a foreign language learning experience on the basis of his/her inability to cope with the difficulty level assumed to be inherent…

This document is a transcript of the proceedings of a one-day meeting held in Austin, Texas on March 29, 1967. Participants included representatives of the national Head Start Planning Committee, the Head Start Research and Evaluation Division in Washington, D. C., and the staff and study directors of the regional Child Development Evaluation and…

The administrator's handbook contains seven sections, each dealing with a specific aspect of vocational education for students with special needs. Section 1 describes the process of identifying handicapped and disadvantaged students. Section 2 covers assessing the needs of such students. Section 3 discusses developing district priorities to meet…

A study was made to determine the effectiveness of the Connecticut "pairing" model in improving the school success of Spanish-dominant children classified as low achievers. The study was concerned with whether a carefully designed model of bilingual-bicultural education can improve reading, arithmetic and language arts skills and enhance…

This document contains a brief report on the development of a county-wide day care program which serves more than 400 children at 12 facilities in housing projects or churches in both black and white low income communities. The report describes the initial project development, the physical facilities, and progress made at staff development and…

The School-Home Contact Program was designed to send paraprofessional workers who are familiar with the community into the homes of students who show serious problems in attendance, adjustment, or achievement. The general objective of the program is to establish rapport between the school and the parents, anticipating that better communication…

Some social issues and dilemmas contributing to the need to improve our educational system are: (1) changing meanings of work, (2) changing structure and composition of the labor force, (3) problems associated with institutional dropouts, (4) problems associated with separating students into college-bound and employment-bound curriculums, (5) the…

The major goals of education for ethnic minority youth should be to maximize their cultural and social options, to present them with cultural and ethnic alternatives, and to help them attain the skills which they need to function successfully in different co-cultures. The school needs to become a multi-ethnic institution which accepts, encourages,…

The third edition of Manpower Research and Development Projects presents descriptions of 455 projects which are grouped by subject matter to facilitate description of the research and development program and the use of the material. The 199 doctoral dissertation grants and the 12 manpower research institutional grants are classified by subject…

Presented is the end of project year (1972-1973) report of an interim program to improve the academic performance and behavior of 48 educable mentally retarded and educationally handicapped adolescents 12- to 17-years-old who had been excluded from special education classes. Reported are performance measures (such as teacher developed inventories…