This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report prepared in answer to an IBE questionnaire. In the Philippines, the main problem is that widespread poverty is responsible for many undernourshed, poorly sheltered and ill clad students whose prospect of success at school is from the start seriously hampered by…

Units for regular high school and elementary school students are included with consumer education units for educable mentally retarded and socio-economically disadvantaged students. Selected bibliographies accompany each unit. The guide is meant to help the teacher with ideas, not to be a structured sequence to follow. It is designed to examine…

The rural Appalachian community of a few decades ago functioned as a relatively autonomous social, economic, educational, and recreational unit. It was a producing and consuming unit that provided a setting for interaction patterns that led to the building of the family social structure, which, in certain respects, contained rigid and well-defined…

The speech reviews the efforts of Indian leaders to develop literacy programs among the poor in this century, and discusses the relationships between poverty and illiteracy in India. (LH)

Investigated was the correlation between socioeconomic status, ethnic group membership, and neurological pathology in a random sample of 508 fourth- and fifth-grade children. (CL)

Described are the patterns of air pollution in certain large urban areas. Persons in poverty, in occupations below the management or professional level, in low-rent districts, and in black population are most heavily exposed to air pollution. Pollution paradoxically is largely produced by high energy consuming middle-and upper-class households.…

Two modes of story telling, live reading and recorded reading, were compared. Each child heard a story presented by the teacher or a recording and then retold the story. Children in the live group used significantly more words and more correct themes in retelling than did those in the recording group. (Author)

This study of 108 matched pairs of Spanish surname and non Spanish surname students from 9 Title 1 parochial schools, who graduated in 1968, 1969 and 1970, found no significant difference between the dropout rates of Spanish surname and non Spanish surname students when they were of comparable ability: the best predictor of dropout rate was the…

An anthropological approach to women discusses; their role in developing nations; the influences of economic growth upon male and female roles; women speaking for themselves; women's constructions of reality; female learning processes and their modern adaptions; varied educational influences; and the involvement of women in education for…

Notes that although the median income of black families continues to rise slowly during the seventies this rise has been insufficient either to narrow the gap between black and white family income or to over ride the erosion of purchasing power caused by the constantly increasing cost of living. (Author/AM)

Low income of many Black families, which is a product of racism, is at the root of problems Black colleges face. Low endowments and small student bodies (which imply less potential for soliciting federal aid) make it difficult for these colleges to compete with larger, predominantly White institutions. (GC)

Teachers need not live in a ghetto to gain knowledge of their students' experiences. All that is needed is an awareness of the general lifestyle experiences of ghetto children and youth and the use of a little imagination in relating these experiences to the teaching process. (Author/EB)

Major political and economic forces, which affect the provision of primary health services, particularly to underserved populations, are reviewed. Technological, professional, governmental, fiscal, and societal solutions are proposed. (GC)

This article shows that, while there has been a modification of health care facilities and new approaches to medical care, little change has been effected in the interrelationship between the poor and the delivery of quality medical care. (Author/GC)

Provides a brief history of the discrimination against Black education and argues that Blacks now attend separate and unequal schools. (IRT)