THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF THE EDUCATION, NUTRITION, HEALTH, CLOTHING, SOCIAL CUSTOMS, AND HOUSING PROBLEMS OF THE MIGRANT CHILD ARE DISCUSSED WITH THE POINT BEING TO SHOW THEIR IMPORTANCE AND THE EFFECT OF THEIR LACK ON A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT. FURTHER DISCUSSION TAKES UP THE EFFECT OF THESE FACTORS UPON THE CHILD'S PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND HIS…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PUBLICATION WAS TO IDENTIFY POVERTY AND TO DESCRIBE PARTICULAR POVERTY SITUATIONS IN KENTUCKY. POVERTY IS DESCRIBED AS BEING A CONDITION OF DEPRIVATION IN ANY ASPECT OF LIVING WHICH HANDICAPS A PERSON IN ACQUIRING THE GOOD THINGS OF LIFE. FOR MEASURING THE EXTENT OF POVERTY IN KENTUCKY, THE FOLLOWING FACTORS WERE…

Pressures on rural Appalachian families to function as an integral part of the larger American society have led to internal discord and a "Culture of Poverty"; consequently, a new vehicle for rural community reorganization is needed, particularly for low-income rural Appalachian communities. An alternative for non-conventional…

THIS IN-DEPTH JOURNALISTIC REPORT ON THE CURRENT RACIAL CRISIS ANALYZES THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE RECENT GHETTO RIOTS, THE HOSTILE REACTIONS OF WHITES, AND THE FAILURE OF AMERICANS TO MAKE A TOTAL COMMITMENT TO SOCIAL JUSTICE. THE REPORT REVIEWS THE NEW NEGRO NATIONALISM, CONGRESSIONAL OBJECTIONS TO FURTHER SOCIAL LEGISLATION, AND THE EFFECT OF…

The 14 papers in this book discuss and suggest ways of dealing with the effect of poverty and discriminatory race relations on education. The bulk of them were developed for a series of 28 television programs, which later served as the basic unit for the 1966 institute for teachers on the disadvantaged at Tufts University. The subjects treated are…

In a review of historical efforts to improve the condition of the poor by education, it is noted that these attempts failed to lessen the problems of poverty. In the past the capitalist factory system demanded a cheap labor supply and therefore education was viewed only as a necessary vocational preparation. The contemporary issues of poverty and…

A study of underemployment, written as part of the development of a management information project (MISOE) for the Division of Occupational Education of the Department of Education in Massachusetts, the work represents the beginning of an effort to bring systematic, empirically based policy analysis to bear on problems of occupational education.…

This position paper explores American under-development in the area of policy formation concerning children and families. Three pressing problems believed to be faced by American children and their parents are presented and discussed. These are: (1) the depopulation of the family, said to be largely attributable to the changes, assumptions, and…

Four hundred and forty-six poor black urban and rural adolescents ages 15-18 enrolled in a summer poverty-work program are administered Gough's Adjective Checklist (ACL) and Holland's Vocatonal Preference Inventory (VPI) to determine their personality profile, to ascertain differences between this gorup and blacks attending colleges, and to study…

A questionnaire survey mailed to all U.S. undergraduate institutions in October 1971 was conducted as part of an evaluation of support service programs for disadvantaged students funded through the Higher Education Amendments of 1968. The inventory contained 14 items that sought summary information about the institution's budget, number of…

This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. Through a simulation, students develop an understanding of subsistence agriculture in Central America and how it is influenced by cultural and physical factors. During four 50-minute class periods,…

This fourth report of Follow Through Classroom Observation data, collected in Spring 1973 from 37 sites representing seven sponsors who participated in the planned variation studies, focuses upon the question of whether sponsors can deliver their educational systems to diverse kinds of communities. It is a study of the effects of training…

In the Spring of 1966, the Civil Rights Commission asked the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to conduct a survey of Northern blacks to determine the effects, if any, of attending integrated versus segregated schools. The result was an extensive survey of 1651 black men and women, aged 21 to 45, living in the metropolitan areas of the…

This report describes a developmental project in occupational education aimed at the unemployed, underemployed, and economically disadvantaged adults living in the 7-county northeastern North Carolina area served by The College of The Albemarle, one of 13 state community colleges. Partially funded by a foundation grant, this project included a…

This book examines the relationships between poverty, disadvantage, and educational failure in a way considered to be more comprehensive and complex than is possible when such an examination is based solely on a concept of cultural disadvantage and defective experience. The mortality of infants and their mothers around birth, held to be both the…