Poverty is one of the most important influences on educational attainment in Canada. Using Statistics Canada definitions, the overall poverty rate in Canada in 1991 was 16 percent; 4.2 million people fell below low income thresholds, and most poor families fell well below the cutoff ($21,000 for an urban family of four). The most notable change in…

An interagency conference, Reading Families and Youth Who Have Limited Resources, was held in September 1992. Over a 2-day period, 186 adult educators and human service professionals participated in 27 different workshops. An innovative evaluation model was developed to assess the impacts of conference participation on reaching audiences who have…

The incidence of child abuse, child neglect, parental drug abuse, and other child-related problems is increasing rapidly. More children are coming to school at risk of failure. What can be done to prevent the cycle of poverty and poor education that results? Head Start is a good program, but even Head Start cannot help a third of its participants:…

In this report of a hearing on the effects on children and youth of President Reagan's proposed budget cuts of means-tested entitlement programs, Linda S. McMahon, Associate Commissioner of the Office of Family Assistance, and Robert E. Leard, Acting Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service at the Department of Agriculture, present the…

Suggests that life is better for the black few, but not for the many. It is this dichotomy that threatens to produce a permanent underclass in this country locked forever into poverty. (AM)

Phase I of this study is an exploratory study searching for hypotheses. Phase II is a test of the five hypotheses emerging from Phase I. All but the last hypothesis are found to be related to effectiveness in community development. [Available from Plenum Publishing Corporation, 227 West 17th Street, New York, New York 10011]. (Author/AM)

Suggests that the terms and methods used for research on cultural disadvantage rest upon shaky foundations and lead to the false conclusion that schools can do little or nothing to outweigh the disadvantages of a poor, culturally deprived home environment. [Available from Publications Branch, Education Department of Victoria, 234 Queensberry…

The assessment of creativity and giftedness in culturally different or economically disadvantaged children is discussed in terms of cultural conditions, general measurement concern, and suggestions for improving creativity measurement in the culturally different. (LH)

The author describes an Israeli parent-teacher group discussion designed to build confidence in disadvantaged parents of their role as parents and human beings. As a result teachers developed a new sensitivity towards parents' interaction with their children. (DE)

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about welfare programs and clients. This booklet attempts to dispel popular misconceptions concerning the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare (DPW). Using graphs, it provides a demographic profile of welfare recipients. It also provides other statistics about welfare through Aid to Families with…

In 1974, children under 18 displaced the elderly as the poorest age group, and in 1985 households with children accounted for over two-thirds of all poor people in the United States. To better understand the factors underlying the deteriorating well-being of families with children, census data on family income from 1967 to 1984 was studied. Three…

In 1982 the Netherlands National Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO), with the support of Parliament, devised the framework for the Development Education Project (EPOS). This project concerns a national development education network, which is to be supported for a new period, 1986 to 1991. EPOS is comprised of national organizations,…

This manual presents a model with all of the ancillary components that have made the Job Club/Literacy Education Program a successful undertaking for the White Plains (New York) Adult Literacy Program. Section I for administrators focuses on establishing the service (assessing the need, funding, developing linkages, location), managing the…

The terms "educationally disadvantaged" and "compensatory education" are defined in many ways. "Compensation" implies a deficit which must be overcome, but there is little agreement on where the deficiency is located--in the child, his family or home, his school, or all of these. In general, it is agreed that school…