Since 1978, Federal policy has sought to encourage the development of local comprehensive service programs for pregnant and parenting adolescents through demonstration grants, research, and dissemination of information about exemplary program models. The prevailing interventive model used is based on the development of local and comprehensive…

A model that can be used to teach secondary students about economic disparity and its effect on the total economic welfare of the country is presented. The model has three phases. In the first phase of curriculum planning, students' needs are determined, goals and objectives are set, and content is selected. The second phase concerns teaching…

The combinations of factors that enhance or interfere with early grade-school performance were investigated among black children from Head Start eligible families who were participants in the ETS Longitudinal Study of Young Children and Their First School Experiences. The children selected for this study's subsample were significantly above or…

The Outdoor Activity Center (Atlanta, Georgia) provides enriched experiences in a natural environment for economically disadvantaged gifted primary grade students and has developed materials incorporating creative activities used at the Center to expand the elementary science curriculum of the Atlanta Public Schools. Fifty-eight gifted students…

Describes the author's experiences and reactions as an "observant learner" in "Hensen School," located in the central area of a Midwestern city; the school had about 850 students, all black, and 85 percent on ADC, with 100 adults participating daily in the school's activities. (JM)

A study to empirically assess the relationship of economic disadvantage to self-concept utilized toe Miskimins Self-Goal-Other Discrepancy Scale (MSGO) with a sample of urban economically disadvantaged adults to evolve a multidimensional description of self-concept. Findings are related to counseling and vocational variables. A final section…

The research reported here had the objective of developing a practical, fair method for identifying the top two per cent in ability of the eighth grade of an inner-city junior high school; approximately 400 students in a predominantly black urban junior high school participated. (Author/JM)

A summer program has been initiated by the Office of Minority Affairs at New York Medical College with the aims of providing educationally and economically disadvantaged minority college students with the academic support, study skill guidance, and career guidance needed for preparation for entrance into medical school. (Author)

This planning workbook is the first of its kind, written in 1969 to explain the process of career development and to help agencies put the process into practice. This guide is divided into the following sections: (1) The Need for OEO/CAP Career Development; (2) The Career Development Process (Task Identification, Functional Job Analysis,…

Described is a project in which poor Black and White parents were trained by paraprofessional visitors to use simple stimulation activites with their infants. Results of Stanford-Binet Scores at age 6 are said to indicate that four of the seven experimental groups scored significantly higher than control groups; and followup at grade 3 indicated…

In order to determine whether poverty is the result of the work orientation of the poor, a secondary analysis of data obtained from a stratified sample of the Houston population was conducted, controlling for age, sex, and ethnicity: the findings are interpreted as casting doubt on the "culture of overty" hypothesis as it relates to work…

The article's purpose is to help the reader develop an understanding of one's own values and attitudes toward poverty and to better understand how others view poverty. Two research perspectives are used: an adaptation of the value clarification process and the author's typology of societal values and attitudes towards poverty. (Author/BP)

To study the relationship between stuttering and expressive language and between verbal expression and socioeconomic status, 15 stutterers and 15 nonstutterers (5-to 10-years old) from lower socioeconomic (predominantly Mexican-American) and middle socioeconomic levels were given the Verbal Expression subtest of the Illinois Test of…