Reports a study designed (1) to assess the self-concept of grade eight students and teacher attitudes at an upper grade center and (2) to relate student self concept and teachers' attitudes to pupil performance; 308 black eighth graders in Chicago participated as subjects. (Author/JM)

This paper reports the results of a comprehensive curriculum evaluation of an academy founded to assist black drop-outs. Designed to determine the effects of the educational program on the student body and to lay bare the major constructs in the instructional and curriculum designs, the study employed a modified Shufflebeam curriculum evaluation…

This paper examines the management of training programs for educators who are or will be working in inner-city schools. Four common patterns emerge from investigations of the program which have been effective in preparing personnel for inner-city schools. First, the programs featured a sound and explicit theoretical base, an analysis of the…