Examines how the poor and minorities can create structural changes in local communities to better serve their collective interest, in the context of a rural county in California in which organizers actually designed and implemented political strategies which resulted in a new set of local power relationships. (Author/JM)

The OEO-funded Sangre de Cristo Comprehensive Health System in Costilla and Conejos Counties, Colorado, and northern Taos County, New Mexico, utilizes medical practitioners who are certified to practice a variety of medical techniques under the supervision of licensed physicians. (JM)

Presents further critical evaluation of Christopher Jencks's book, Inequality, and the research attitudes of various groups toward his book. (RK)

Special Urban Issue. Revised paper read at Opening Convocation, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, September 21, 1972. (DS)

Presents both pros and cons about the effectiveness of this educational TV program. Indicates that no very substantial contribution can be made toward narrowing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children. (CC)

Focuses on how imaginative and energetic people at the grass roots level can use Federal and local resources" for food and medical services, and thereby attack poverty on a broadened basis." (Author)

Graduates of programs with primarily custodial goals were higher than the graduates of programs with primarily educational goals in elementary school achievements; this effect was attributed to differing structural characteristics affecting the socialization process, especially duration of school day. (Author/JM)

Article suggests that to really end segregation in the schools, students must also be exposed to the end of economic and class segregation. (ML)

Makes observations about some conditions of life that influence poor families' consumer behavior. Home Economists who seek to provide innovative consumer education are challenged by these observations to work for social as well as individual change. (Editor)

Describes the operations of the 1965-66 Economic Opportunity Atlanta administration, its subsidiary Citizens Neighborhood Advisory Councils, and the Central Citizens Advisory Council. (JM)

Proposes a social service model based on Community Progress, an antipoverty program in New Haven, Connecticut, aimed at helping the poor achieve upward social mobility by facilitating their use of existing opportunities in employment, housing, and education. (Author)

Study results suggest that the "Work Study Student" has aspirations similar to those of upperclass students, and offsets his disadvantagement by working hard to attain his goals. (Author/CJ)

The correlations between the scores on the 1966, 1973, and 1979 norms on Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices for 140 economically disadvantaged students in grades three and five were significantly high. It seems appropriate to use any of the three sets of norms with economically disadvantaged students. (Author)