Under the auspices of the Instructional Programs Branch of the U.S. Office of Education, a 3-day conference was held May 21-23, 1962, on "Teaching Children and Youth Who Are Educationally Disadvantaged." The conference brought together from all over the Nation acknowledged leaders of public school programs expressly designed to realize the potentialities of the educationally disadvantaged. The purposes of the conference were to review promising efforts in this field, to identify those characteristics of pupils and of their homes and communities which hinder achievement, and to project new approaches that warrant exploration. This publication contains the papers presented at the conference on practices designed specifically to assist the educationally disadvantaged: (1) The Culturally Deprived Child: A New View (Frank Riessman); (2) Program for Depressed Area (West Virginia) (Sherrill D. McMillen); (3) Some Special Projects of the Chicago Board of Education (Anita Y. Boswell); (4) An Adventure in Human Relations (Wilmington, Delaware) (Muriel Crosby); (5) The Washington, D.C. Program (John D. Koontz); (6) The Higher Horizons Program in New York City (Jacob Landers); (7) Modifying the School Experience of Culturally Handicapped Children in the Primary Grades (Quincy, Illinois) (Gordon P. Liddle); (8) Working Toward More Effective Education (Detroit, Michigan) (Carl Marburger); (9) Some Guidelines to Desirable Elementary School Reorganization (Bank Street, College of Education, New York City) (John Niemeyer); (10) A Program to Raise the Standard of School Achievement (St. Louis, Missouri) (Samuel Shepard, Jr.); (11) The Harry E. Wood School Program (Indianapolis, Indiana); and (12) Conclusions (Howard H. Cummings). [Best copy available has been provided.]