This paper discusses the provision of quality education for black children in urban public schools. The author argues (1) that urban public schools have failed to provide quality education to black children because education is not conceived in cultural context; (2) that remedial educational programs for minority children have been based on…

The Urban Leadership Program, a Federally funded program consisting of three 10-week sessions for sixth graders in the Einstein Public School, Chicago, Illinois, provided a career awareness program of action learning to bridge the gap between students' economically improverished neighborhoods and the mainstream urban community. The community…

Describes the establishment, achievements, and continued success of the Big Shoulders Fund, through which Chicago's business community assists local Catholic innercity schools. Explains how the program provides operating grants, building improvements, scholarships, teacher training programs, mobile classrooms, and endowment funds for schools…

Problems of unemployed youth are presented in the context of urban development in nine American cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. The migration during the 1950's of the urban white population to the suburbs initiated a significant change in the economic and…

THE FOUR AREAS PRESENTED ARE GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS, ACHIEVEMENT TESTS, EDUCATIONAL GROUPING PROCEDURES, AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW INCOME. A TRACK SYSTEM, OR ANY SYSTEM OF GROUPING, SHOULD PROMOTE RATHER THAN HINDER THE ACHIEVEMENT OF BOTH THE LOW-INCOME GROUPS AND THE HIGHER-INCOME GROUPS. THE PRESENT TRACK SYSTEM IN…

AMERICA'S GREAT CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE HAVING SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES. THEY HAVEN'T ENOUGH MONEY FOR TEACHERS AND CLASSROOMS. THEIR INNER-CITY SCHOOLS ARE CROWDED WITH STUDENTS WHO REQUIRE SERVICES WHICH THE SCHOOLS HAVE NEVER HAD TO PROVIDE ON A LARGE, ORGANIZED SCALE. THEY HAVE TOO FEW TEACHERS, MANY OF WHOM ARE INADEQUATELY PREPARED TO TEACH THE…

The Direct Instructional System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR), a highly structured, systematic program, was developed to provide instruction to disadvantaged children. This paper cites the opinions of proponents and opponents of the program and notes the results of previous studies of the effectiveness of DISTAR. The paper then…

A publication prepared by the Office of Education is one of a series of four which discuss the education of disadvantaged children. Focusing on grades four, five, and six, this document presents some general background material on the disadvantaged and notes some promising practices. Also included are brief descriptions of special programs in…

In this study of the personality development of four-year-old children, we first attempted to evaluate the personalities of the children attending our research preschool in order to, on the basis of our clinical evaluations, discover a number of factors which would permit us to group the children. We then studied their families to see if we cound…

Among the various approaches used by the Inland Steel Company in training ghetto youth for jobs, greatest promise has been shown by the Work Experience and Training Program initiated in 1965 at the Joseph T. Ryerson and Son plant, an Inland subsidiary located in the Lawndale (West Side) area of Chicago near the scene of the 1966 riots. Results…

Sponsored by the Ounce of Prevention Fund, this report presents a comprehensive look at three Toward Teen Health high school-based, adolescent health centers in Chicago, Illinois. Following a brief introduction, the report provides the rationale for opening adolescent health centers and outlines the principles that guide the centers. Next, a…

DESCRIBED IS THE USE OF AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS IN PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK CITY, MILWAUKEE, SAN DIEGO, DETROIT, AND CHICAGO. THE PROGRAMS OFFER INSTRUCTION IN SUCH AREAS AS LANGUAGE SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT, READING, CULTURAL ENRICHMENT, DRIVER EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION, AND JOB TRAINING. SOME OF THESE CITIES HAVE DEVELOPED AUDIOVISUAL…

The findings of a 1973 study covering the performance of Sesame Street and The Electric Company in ghetto communities are reported briefly. The steps taken to repeat the methodology of earlier Sesame Street studies are described. Data are given on: penetration of Sesame Street among preschool children in Bedford Stuyvesant, East Harlem, Chicago,…

The movement to reform the Chicago (Illinois) public schools faces a host of problems in the classroom and a sea of social ills outside the classroom. Without support from the African American community and largely cut off from the reform process, neither significant progress nor progressive change can be made. (SLD)