The development and progress for 1975-1980 of equal educational opportunity programs in California are summarized, and proposals for progress over the next 5 years and 10 recommendations for public action are offered. The current status of equal educational opportunity is examined for economically-deprived students, women, and ethnic minority…

Community-based organizations (CBOs) are neighborhood-based groups committed to providing human services to poor and minority individuals. The charge that government ineptness generates a need for CBOs is supported by examination of the federal government's operation of the general revenue sharing program. A project set up by CBOs collected data…

Cites examples of how resources are drained from education, how the planning process encourages social isolation, and how the priorities for the society virtually eliminate resources needed to change the conditions of children from poverty subcultures. (Author/JM)

A basic problem of disadvantaged students is their inability to deal with information: to assist the teacher the Niagara Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education has described a set of skills sequences that might be called Basic Thinking Skills. (JM)

A larger proportion of the population, including the poor and minority groups, want higher education both for job mobility and for creative use of leisure time: but the school system is not equipped to educate youngsters whose parents are not already in the middle class. (Author/JM)

In 1975, 263 low-income Kentucky youths aged 17-19 completed questionnaires about career aspirations according to desired job characteristics and perceived barriers to occupational attainment; the sample (approximately half male, half female) was from an urban inner city area in Fayette County (approximately half black, half white) and the two…

The paper presents case studies of two low income inner-city children who, after entering an early childhood program at ages 2 and 3, demonstrated increased reading and academic skills as well as improved social-emotional development. The intervention program (Self-Controlled Interactive Learning Systems) is explained to have incorporated an…

The low-cost day care center described is industry-sponsored, not for the company's employees, but as a community service enabling welfare mothers to work while their children enjoy a development-enhancing curriculum provided by trained teachers, once welfare recipients. Executives believe business must help the disadvantaged solve their problems.…

The major difference between "minority poor" and "other poor" has to do with a complexity of attitudes and inhibitions built in by the environment. (Author)

The author identifies three school practices which discriminate against Black children and proposes three measures school systems can take toward a more equitable learning experience. The following negative practices are discussed: overenrollment of Black children in special education classes for the emotionally disturbed, the disproportionate…

The study evaluated the identification process for programs for the gifted and talented in the District of Columbia public schools. The authors (McBeath, Blackshear, and Smart) used the Baldwin Identification Matrix (which includes an informal creative thinking test, reading and mathematics tests, grades, and nominations) as a data management…

This report synthesizes the results of a survey of 1,265 economically disadvantaged young people in New Jersey and, through the use of graphic displays, presents findings on their attitudes on education, employment, vocational skills, and future prospects. Replies are collated by reference to age, race, and sex. (WP)

The scripts of four programs of National Public Radio's Options in Education series are presented. The first program has sequences involving the use of high technology in childbirth. Interviews with doctors and expectant mothers explore the use and availability of electronic monitoring equipment in prenatal care. In the second program, the high…