This program describes an experimental series of six training workshops, directed toward the unique needs of counselors in inner-city schools. The workshops attempted to counteract insularity in current counselor education programs (textbooks and tape recorded interviews) by providing new and more potent methods for counseling disadvantaged…

This study attempts to show that it is possible for inner-city schools to teach basic reading successfully. Various successful programs were studied in order to discover the factors the schools had in common. The study was conducted during the School Year 1970-71 and four successful schools served as the basis of this report. Two schools were in…

This Institute for Developmental Studies (IDS) program was established in 1958, and represented an attempt to study the inter-play of environment on psychological development, and to evolve and develop an enriched and stimulating school curriculum for socially disadvantaged children. Over the years, the IDS program has evolved into a comprehensive…

This book describes and evaluates a 12-month postgraduate program to develop better leadership in urban elementary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Chapter 1 on the program describes 1) procedures for recruiting the 15 fellows (who already had a master's degree and at least 3 years of teaching experience); 2) goals and components of the…

This document describes a model (the PASS Model) that allows for universities to develop programs and facilities that are of mutual benefit to the university and to the community of which it is a part. The University of Pennsylvania has developed this particular model, and it is implemented in the form of the West Philadelphia Free School. The…

Because of the enormity of challenges that confront teachers in urban schools, teachers should be finely trained in an intensive educational program. (JD)

The role of speech-language pathologists in developing Standard English skills among inner city children is seen to include dispelling negative attitudes toward linguistic and cognitive abilities of minority children, developing classroom stimulation programs, and eliminating cultural biases in language oriented materials. (CL)

A study which reflects how a class of disadvantaged, inner city high school students with poor reading ability achieved high quality academic learning in a world geography class through various reading media is discussed and summarized. (SM)

Philadelphia's Academy of Applied Electrical Science combines vocational education and industrial training resources to give inner city youth an occupational assist. (Editor)

Teaching experiences in an experimental college where students are members of ethnic minority groups and parents have low socioeconomic backgrounds. (HS)

Inner city youth must be made aware of the problems confronting them on an individual level, the social factors which have brought these problems about, the facts about the constitutional relationships between citizen and government, and, finally, the uses of citizen power. (Author/JB)

Describes an adapter program, currently operational at the State University of New York's Urban Center in Manhattan, which prepares people with vocational, general and high school equivalency diplomas to enter college and survive without further assistance. (Author/CJ)