The old city remains, finding new specialties to justify its persistence. Most noteworthy of these is a role as an Indian reservation for socially undesired persons, and for those who manage them for the rest of society. (JM)

Personal account of author's participation in a special program to improve learning skills of disadvantaged New York City children, with concerns expressed over ignored need for all teachers and personnel workers to function as team for sake of child and family. (CJ)

Stresses the need for a national commitment to provide equal opportunity for minorities by helping them out of the ghetto. (BH)

Describes a program in Chicago in which clusters of ethnically similar and geographically close ghetto schools have pooled their resources to create instructional television programs more closely related to the needs of their students than are the programs available through the district wide ITV system. (LS)

A group experience with neighborhood workers in a black, ghetto community action program, with a white psychiatrist as group leader focuses on the definition of the task of consultation, derivation of mutually agreed upon goals, evolution of the group, and issues dealt with during the experience. (Author)

Advocates an epidemiological view of the failure of ghetto education, and singles out the racism of urban educators as the prime causal factor. (JM)

In answer to criticism of the dissimilarity index in measuring the amount of segregation (occupational and racial) in communities, the author has developed an index which reflects differences between cities possessing concentrated ghettos and those with multiple residential clusters. The proximity measure incorporates spatial qualities directly…

Raises the following research questions: What is the relationship between migration patterns and the adaptation of immigrants? What is the relationship between community organization and adaptation? What are the socioeconomic impacts of the recent immigrants on the established Chinese community? (Author/JM)

Racial discrimination and racial segregation resulting from discrimination have an effect upon life in central cities. In central cities the costs of retail business and of housing are often higher than elsewhere. Minority group populations, concentrated in ghettos of central cities, are subect to limited job opportunities. The results of racial…

This report covers the second six months of the Los Angeles Public Library's project to extend library service to the disadvantaged. In the second period emphasis was placed on involvement with individuals as well as with community groups, on development of techniques, and on assembling a variety of materials for reaching and working with…