America is failing its young Black boys. In metropolitan ghettos, rural villages and midsized townships across the country, schools have become holding tanks for populations of Black boys who have a statistically higher probability of walking the corridors of prison than the halls of college. Across America, the problem of Black male achievement…

This report on the Urban, Rural, Racial Disadvantaged Educational Programs (URRD) conducted in Seattle, Washington in 1977-78 examines the effectiveness of the programs on raising student achievement levels. Data presented in the report lead to the following conclusions: (1) the programs met two of the four objectives that the State of Washington…

The focus of this study is on the problems and prospects of providing quality education to children of the disadvantaged inner city school districts, particularly in the face of continued movement of the more affluent families to suburban areas. Based on examination of the literature on the many facets of the urban-suburban education problem, on…

How educational experiences and programs sponsored by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) could better prepare inner-city youth, particularly black, disadvantaged youth, to perform successfully in a number of jobs or occupations was the subject of this study. The Harbor City Learning program, a partially CETA-funded project in…

The principal aims of this study were to identify, select, analyze, and describe educational programs for culturally disadvantaged children from preschool through grade 12 which had yielded measured benefits of cognitive achievement. A literature search (mainly through ERIC) and mail inquiries followed by telephone consultations constituted the…