During its 8-year history, the federal Adult Education for the Homeless Program (AEH) pioneered new methods of service to adults in need and benefited over 320,000 homeless adults and families. Despite an evaluation that documented program success, funding was rescinded from the 1995 federal budget and never reinstated. AEH programs developed the…

Three factors were found to distinguish effective from less effective schools in Washington, DC: (1) principals' leadership style and support of teachers; (2) teachers' role in instruction; and (3) staff development programs. (Author/GC)

The findings of a national survey intended to determine the extent to which income maintenance studies are available in graduate or undergraduate social work programs are reviewed. The legitimization of income maintenance as a field of study is advocated and an educational model for the curriculum is presented. (Author/MLW)

A research, training, and demonstration study by Southern Illinois University-Carbondale that dealt with the interaction of law and social work graduate students in delivering services to the elderly poor is reported. Confrontation education is suggested as a means to modify stereotypes, clarify roles, and encourage integrated service delivery.…

The RMC models for Title I program evaluations involve too large an expenditure of effort in relation to the information needs of the federal government. Too little is being done to ensure the usefulness of the models at state and local levels. (MH)

Describes the creation and operation of Project Chrysalis, a community, service-learning school transformed from row houses, where children can learn, work, and gain inspiration from artists and social entrepreneurs involved with Houston's Project Row Houses. Personal narratives of two teachers highlight the school's and students' accomplishments…

Attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and classroom practices of 476 teachers in 24 urban and suburban elementary schools were assessed with teacher questionnaires and observation. Teachers serving students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds put more emphasis on teacher authority and control and were more doubtful of student abilities. (SLD)

Examines single-parent families headed by fathers. Studied specially constructed child files from the 1960-90 Public Use Microdata Samples data from the Census of Population. Findings showed single-father families generally rare but increasing. Social capital of children's fathers, availability of adults, and children's economic well-being vary…

The relationship between parent-child interactions and early literacy skills in children (ages 1-3) for 27 families living in low-income households was examined. Results found child language, parent language, emotional tone, joint attention, parental guidance, and parental responsivity behaviors were strongly related to later receptive vocabulary,…

Addresses the concern of educational adequacy: the availability of properly financed and managed accelerated-education programs that produce high minimum educational outcomes for disadvantaged students. Offers 11 specific educational policy and organizational elements that can be implemented to "remedy" educational inadequacy by courts in…

Arguing that provenance-based retrieval tools do not provide access to "hidden groups" (blacks, women, ethnic and cultural minorities, aboriginal, poor, and working people), this article examines ways to improve traditional descriptive tools. Concludes that archivists need to expand subject access to include function/occupation and type…

Offers a framework, based on research from Philadelphia high schools, that illustrates the vision and labor necessary to make urban school reform both systemic and doable. Three tasks are identified and described: building community; generating knowledge about change; and reinventing curriculum. These tasks are viewed as encompassing the work of…

The National Cancer Institute created the Appalachia Leadership Initiative on Cancer, composed of four similar projects that focus on increasing screening for cervical and breast cancer among low-income, older women. The program relies on community coalitions that develop innovative grass roots methods to spread the message about the importance of…

A study investigated the effectiveness of supplemental reading instruction that included intensive, explicit, and systematic reading instruction in fluency, phonemic awareness, instructional-level reading with an emphasis on comprehension, word analysis, and spelling. The intervention was effective in improving the reading skills of 70…

The health of urban America, particularly that of minority citizens who live in urban America, is so poor in comparison to that of the rest of our nation's citizens that it constitutes a national disgrace and an embarrassment. (Author/MW)