This manual is intended to provide general guidelines and assistance to staff participating in the organization and development of a New Careers Program in a community. These activities are supported through contract with the Bureau of Work Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, as part of the New Careers Program, Section 123(a)(4) of the Economic…

A 1967 study of the Dixwell Legal Rights Association, New Haven, Connecticut, assessed the goals of the DLRA (training of legal service agency personnel and of nonprofessional neighborhood workers, legal rights education of the poor, social change) and their realization. DLRA services to clients were highly respected. Its militancy and…

This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume outlines four courses for troubled girls and young adult women who receive residential care or who may be served through community outreach. The program was…

One of a set of seven instructional materials designed for competency-based vocational education administrator education, this module focuses on the learner's accomplishment of objectives related to procedures for planning and implementing vocational programs for disadvantaged and handicapped persons. Following introductory material discussing the…

This module is one of twelve individualized performance-based modules, each based on a major competency needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies. (The modules are the result of a project designed to develop and test instructional packages for use in performance-based…

A study was done to determine the feasibility of using public schools as a delivery system for training the disadvantaged in rural areas, and to identify those factors which have prevented the establishment of meaningful working relationships between manpower training providers and vocational personnel. Utilizing a questionnaire and personal…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter maintains that young persons whose behavior patterns have been consistently outside the range of acceptability in a community face the same problems as do deviant adults. School personnel are often reluctant to cope with the proven behavior problems because the…

Since the developmental studies program at Amarillo College began in 1974, continuing efforts have been made to assess the characteristics, attitudes, motivations and goals of the high-risk students in the program, which was designed to build self-concept and improve reading, English, math and study skills. Over the three years of the study,…

The Ypsilanti Curriculum Demonstration Project (CDP) was designed to address the question of whether some approaches to compensatory preschool education for economically disadvantaged children were more effective than others under controlled experimental conditions. The CDP examined the effects of three preschool curriculum models on children's…

On the basis of a microeconometric examination of Philadelphia School District data, it is concluded that (1) many school inputs do matter, (2) disadvantaged students can be helped by particular types of inputs, and (3) these optimistic results are accounted for by the use of pupil-specific data, and appropriate statistical data. The school inputs…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter states that the problem of school crime is not a school problem, but a cultural problem manifesting itself in schools. The cultural shifts of the last generation are creating adolescent needs that schools were never organized to deal with, and, therefore,…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter examines the relationship between the major goal of affective educational programs--improved student self-esteem--and school crime. The author believes that by focusing on the whole person, not just the cognitive domain, schools can have an impact on the school…

Findings and recommendations of two studies begun in 1968 regarding the lives of impoverished people in Camden, New Jersey are presented in this report. In the first study, factors aiding and hindering the achievement of economic independence, especially through the Work Incentive Program (WIN), of female headed households are considered. Data…

In this booklet, the highlights of Report No. 3 (see UD 018 835) on Compensatory Education (CE) are summarized in text and tables. Results reported include the following: (1) proportionally, CE selection is highest among the poor for both math and reading; (2) CE selection is proportionally higher for low achievers; (3) the greatest number of…

Both administratively and in terms of their evaluations, Head Start and Follow Through have been treated as separate programs. Follow Through was initially conceived, however, as an effort to preserve and augment Head Start gains. In this report, achievement test data on a set of children who participated in both Head Start and Follow Through are…