Examined the preferred counselor characteristics of two groups: students with disabilities and students who were educationally and economically disadvantaged. Counselor characteristics were examined in terms of how preferences are differentially expressed for help with personal-social versus vocational-educational concerns. (Author/BH)

Results of this dramatics program for economically disadvantaged children indicate significant improvements in reading achievement and attitudes toward self and others. (PD)

Describes an evaluation of a summer career awareness workshop program for economically disadvantaged youth. The evaluation found that three-fourths of the 96 participants reported that as a result of the three-day workshop, they were closer to making a career decision. (CT)

Follows up a study of a case in which three predominantly Chicano elementary schools in Santa Barbara, California, were closed due to declining enrollment. Investigates psychological maladjustment, academic decline, parental involvement decline, and adverse community impact. Concludes that the closure created a significant burden on a large…

Describes Project P.S. 137, implemented in a New York City public school. Affiliated with the University of Oregon's Direct Instruction Model, the project involved kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade classes. Students in the program consistently surpassed mean performance levels of comparable disadvantaged inner-city students on…

Since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the federal government has taken an aggressive role in ensuring that all individuals have equal access to public education programs. For the disadvantaged, handicapped, limited English proficient, and other individuals with special educational needs, vocational education has been an important federal…

The life study of a 12-year-old girl from a poor urban community whose mother has been sent to prison examines the changes in the childs' reactions to and relationship with her mother during the two years her mother is incarcerated, raising fundamental questions of what is happening to the children of women prisoners and what the rights of these…

Describes the Piney Woods Country Life School, which provides for the education of black children from deprived social and economic backgrounds. (Author/AM)

Five American Indian tribes in Louisiana were visited and general information obtained concerning their history, present status, and socioeconomic problems. The tribes were the Choctaws, the Chitimachas, the Coushattas or Koasatis, the Houmas, and the Tunicas. (NQ)

Understanding the consequences of growing up poor for a child's well-being is an important research question, but one that is difficult to answer due to the potential endogeneity of family income. Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by omitted variable bias and measurement error. In this…

Bill Gates and the governors were quite vague about what makes the schools obsolete or what to do about it. What is it, exactly, that schools are not teaching that they need to? Bill Gates also claimed that American kids were at the top in fourth grade, but at the bottom by 12th. The author congratulates Gates for focusing some attention on…

This paper uses regression and matching techniques to evaluate Indonesia's Social Safety Net Scholarships Programme. The scholarships program was developed to try to prevent large numbers of children from dropping out of school as a result of the Asian financial crisis. The expectation was that many families would find it difficult to keep their…

This paper draws on two studies to consider theoretical, analytical, ethical, methodological, and representational questions about longitudinal case study research in literacy acquisition. Both studies drew on observations and interviews, as well as formal assessment data. The two longitudinal studies are: "100 Children Go to School:…

As of the 1997 Ohio welfare reform laws, families not receiving cash assistance and earning 135 percent or less of the poverty income were eligible for subsidized child care (non-assistance subsidized child care). This study sought to estimate the number of working families in Cuyahoga County, Ohio that could take advantage of non-assistance…

With many families facing difficult economic times, wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated among the rich. The tables in this "chartbook" illustrate the growing gap between rich and poor. There has been a general decline in economic growth as well as a change in the distribution of income. In addition, corporations have been taking a larger…