Publications and reports related to factors in adjustment of families and individuals in low income rural areas of the South are reported in this annotated bibliography of research findings for 1960 through 1965. The 83 publications reported resulted from the Southern Regional Cooperative Research Project S-44. Topics related to vocational…

Findings are presented of a four-year study on reaching rural disadvantaged youth through an informal education program called the Arkansas Special Youth Project. The information provides a framework for expanding 4-H. Specific methods and techniques used in working with the disadvantaged are outlined and evaluated in terms of the resultant…

This report is an evaluation of the College Discovery and Development (CDD) Program Prong II, operated jointly by the New York City Board of Education and by the City University of New York. This compensatory education program prepares disadvantaged students for college entrance and for success in college. The major purpose of this evaluation is…

Prior to the implementation of a career education program, a career aspirations survey was conducted in one New Mexican community. The sample population included first and second generation Mexican-American secondary school students. A six-item questionnaire was administered to 720 students from one junior and one senior high school. The results…

The purpose of the one-year study was to determine the ability of public and private employment agencies to meet the job placement and educational needs of vocationally trained, disadvantaged individuals living in three rural Texas counties. The overall goal was to develop an effective system that would allow for the continuous placement of these…

An effort to lay the foundation for the preparation of reading programs which will match the social and linguistic background of lower-class children, in particular children of the nation's black ghettos, is made in this paper. The paper consists of five sections. The first section discusses the interconnection of social, geographic, and stylistic…

This report describes the operation of the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) of New York State which is designed to support the screening, testing, counseling, tutoring, and teaching of New York State students who have attained a high school diplima or a New York State high school equivalency diploma, have the potential for the…

The purpose of this study was to: (1) examine the relationship of mothers' self-concept measures to children's self concept-measures; (2) analyze change in self-concept measures of children as a function of initial (beginning of school year) self-concept measures of mothers; and, (3) analyze change in self-concept measures of children as a…

This report provides an overview of the changing labor force of the 1970's. Employment trends for youth, blacks, women part-time workers, and other groups are projected, after which the report discusses the role of Federal manpower policy in improving the operation of the labor market during inflation, recession, and steady growth. Numerous graphs…

The annotated bibliography of day care reference sources lists documents published for use within the federal government, publications of departments and bureaus within the federal government, publications by non-governmental associations and institutions, and materials distributed by the Minnesota Department of Public Welfare. Also included is…

Prior to an advertising campaign directed toward the handicapped and their families, interviews with 995 adults, 481 handicapped persons, and 100 physicians were conducted. It was found that the lower economic group, which has the highest incidence of disability (17% as compared to 5% in upper economic households), has the least knowledge of how…

As the first of 2 volumes of a survey of contemporary (1966) economic, political, and educational needs of Indians of Canada, this study viewed the difficulties Indians have faced economically and politically. The study took over 2 years to complete, and over 40 scholars participated using interviews, firsthand observations, and questionnaires to…

This bibliography lists materials which deal with the role of the disadvantaged in public service. It focuses only on materials generally available to the average researcher, and is designed to be of particular use to those whose responsibility is to hire the disadvantaged. Included in the bibliography is whatever written material is generally…

This study compared the pre-college experiences reported by University freshmen receiving financial aid and those of students not identified as being on one of the financial aid programs. Information was collected through a pre-college experience inventory completed by freshmen. The average student not on financial aid had traveled more, was more…

A bilingual elementary school for Spanish-speaking children in Chicago, Lafayette Center, is described in this paper. The primary concern of the Center has been parent involvement, with home visits to the parents by school community representatives before and after enrollment and an Open House in December. This function was well attended by…