Reports research on ways to communicate with minority and disadvantaged youth to increase their participation in vocational programs. Attitudes of San Francisco Bay Area minority and disadvantaged high school students were measured and the resulting data analyzed and discussed. Suggestions for attitude facilitation and change are included. (MF)

Special education revenue sharing would recognize the important role of nonpublic schools in the educational system. (Author/JN)

Title I is a remarkable success in view of all the administrative problems confronting school systems. (Author/JN)

A program of career exploration for disadvantaged youth is part of a federally-funded project called Operation Bridge.'' (Author)

An investigation of the relationship between mental health and work training in specific growth dimensions. Based on the March, 1965, national population survey and presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (New York, New York, 1969). (JM)

In recent years sociologists of youth have drawn attention to the growing disparity between the stated goals of education and labor market policies on the one hand, and the changing priorities, choices and experiences of young people on the other. This article explores a similar disparity in the transitions of young people graduating from…

This is the seventh annual evaluation report submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on behalf of the U.S. Office of Education (OE). Prepared by OE's Office of Planning, Budgeting, and Evaluation, it reviews approximately 90 programs administered by OE and provides the following information for nearly all…

THE BOSTON YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES PROJECT HAS DEVELOPED ITS PLANS FOR AN ATTACK ON DELINQUENCY IN THE FORM OF AN ACTION-RESEARCH PROJECT. THE PROJECTS' ACTIVITIES IN THE COMMUNITY ARE GIVEN, AND THE LARGER AREAS FOR THIS ATTACK ARE DESCRIBED. THE PROJECT IS AIMED AT REDUCING THE VOLUME AND SERIOUSNESS OF CRIMINAL-TYPE BEHAVIOR OF MALE YOUTH 12…

This seminar was held to focus the attention of personnel in vocational education leadership positions on two major problems critical to further development and improvement of teacher education, with 215 participants from 43 states and the District of Columbia registering. Problem areas of teacher education for differentiated staffing and for…

Project REDY (Rural Education-Disadvantaged Youth) was initiated by the University of Illinois on June 1, 1965, and is scheduled to terminate June 30, 1970. The objectives of the project were: (1) to study in depth a depressed rural area and to identify conditions and trends that typify the area; (2) to develop and conduct a model…

Many efforts have been made to reach the high school dropout in order to help him find employment and to graduate from high school. One such effort is the Work Opportunity Center in Minneapolis which was established to serve this group as well as the hardcore unemployed youth. Creative innovations, individualized attention, change, and flexibility…

Fifteen reviews of conference reports, research and demonstration projects, and surveys pertain to the need for and applicability of vocational education for the disadvantaged in general, and specifically for disadvantaged adults and youth, and the handicapped. "Plain Talk," a continuing column by the editor, discusses the need for vocational…