Northwest Indians turn to aquaculture as source of jobs and steady income. (Editor)

Evaluates the effects of preschool training and social work services on reading readiness, social maturity, and family dysfunction among children whose parents receive public assistance. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to develop a battery of perceptual and perceptual motor integrative tasks that would be appropriate for administration to young disadvantaged children. (Author)

The pros and cons of providing vouchers to school children are discussed. (CK)

This survey of the prevailing program of publicly assisted housing is based on a questionnaire administered to 10,276 housing authority commissioners. It concludes that inadequacies in the performance of the housing authorities and the attitudes of lay commissioners are responsible for the present low-income housing problem. (RJ)

Discusses the philosophical underpinings of providing public assistance to the poor based on the 'desert' model. Argues that society has a moral obligation to provide subsidized medical care to all poor people. (AOS)

The promise of education at a private Baltimore (Maryland) school rests in the idea that scholarship is the key to autonomy, self-determination, and self-fulfillment. The Park Heights Street Academy serves as a haven for the able adolescent who has been misplaced for social, political, economic, or academic reasons. (Author/MLF)

Examines America's responsibility, in a period of economic recession, to the poor of other countries and to the illegal immigrants within the U.S. The author concludes that resident illegal aliens should have their status legalized and be offered social services, while policies for new immigrants should be reformed to encourage legal immigration…

The author argues that in certain sectors of a society, especially a developing one, the best plan for educational development may be no plan. To illustrate, he analyzes the day-to-day survival problems of the Latin American urban poor and the ways that formal schooling exacerbates these problems. (Author/SJL)

Three sets of factors that are strongly and consistently productive of academic learning are student ability and motivation, amount and quality of instruction as well as the social-psychological morale of the classroom group, and the educationally stimulating qualities of the home environment. (Author/MLF)

Act 101 funds provide special classes, counseling, and tutorial support for participating academically, economically, and culturally deprived college students. (Author/IRT)