Purpose of this study was to discriminate among college persisters, withdrawals, and academic dismissals through using measures of scholastic aptitude and personality. (Authors)

The emphasis on reading in a Miami elementary school curriculum is having a good effect in lessening the amount of dropouts. (GB)

Describes how renovation and a little imagination can convert a city's older commercial buildings into sensitive, supportive quarters for education. The demographic changes within New York are offered as an example to other cities of the need for new kinds of facilities, rather than the need for new additional structures. (Author/WM)

Assesses the current situation in India and gives guidelines for the next 8 years. (SP)

Authors take a critical look at the HEW Task Force on Higher Education and the recent article by its chairman, Frank Newman. (Ed.)

Analyzes the performance contract and contractor while attempting to determine what makes a successful contract policy. (RK)

Acquainting public school elementary and high school students with the world of work is the goal of the Guided Occupational Orientation Program in Syracuse, New York. (Author)

Author relates how disinterested students sent to his art class developed a renewed interest in school as a direct result of their experiences with clay. (NP)

Analyzes the racial breakdowns of population by census tract for Chicago; these figures, released in April 1970 by the Bureau of Census, use the Negro consolidation index which measures the rapidity of racial turnover of a neighborhood after entry by blacks. (JM)

A report by the Regional and Community Development Section of the United Nations which states that community development has to give close attention to the strategy and tactics it considers using and the time needed to realize its goals. (Author/DR)

Various programs describe how rural development in underdeveloped nations is effectively increased by close cooperation between the extension agents and the farmers. (JB)

A new 4-H program, developed and tested in Virginia, aims at teaching youth about their communities and how they function, and also seeks to involve them as part of that function. (Author)

Summarizes the argument between the advocates of stream straightening for flood control, drainage, and navigation, and those concerned with the maintenance of ecological communities and the aesthetic values of natural" streams. (AL)

Describes the effects of one particular case of stream channelization. (AL)