RECENT RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT WAS REVIEWED, AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSFORMING DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH INTO PRESCRIPTIONS FOR EDUCATION WERE DISCUSSED. RESEARCH FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRESCHOOL TEACHING WERE MADE UNDER THE FOLLOWING HEADINGS--(1) THE ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR, STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE, (2) THE ACQUISITION OF…

Guidelines are offered for positive camping experiences for poverty children and youth. There are sections on community organizations which can offer services for camp placement, recruitment of campers from among disadvantaged groups, and the orientation of new campers to camp (including such practical suggestions as the types of food and snacks…

This compendium contains responses to a questionnaire sent to directors and investigators of college and university recruiting programs. The responding institutions cited the desire to make higher education accessible to those excluded either by restrictive admissions policies or financial hardship as the primary reason for recruiting minority or…

The junior college today faces the challenge of providing quality post-secondary education for its minority and less affluent members. This document contains 24 articles on junior college programs for the disadvantaged. They have previously been published in the Junior College Journal from 1965 through 1970. (CA)

This document reports the Cycle II Teacher Corps Urban Program at the University of Southern California, a 2-year effort to prepare teachers to work effectively in disadvantaged communities of such diverse racial and ethnic groups as Negroes, Mexican Americans, poor whites, Japanese, Koreans, and Samoans. There is brief description of the two…

The first section of this position paper traces the background of the problem of equal opportunity for the culturally, economically, and psychologically disadvantaged (migrant farm laborers, mountain whites, Negroes, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and Mexican Americans). The second section discusses ways and means of overcoming the problem…

The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Job Corps Student Teaching project focused on Job Corps centers as feasible environments for providing realistic counseling experiences for counselors-in-training. Major training objectives were to provide the University of Maine counselor trainee actual counseling experience with…

The use of tournament forensics in teaching vital skills to the disadvantaged is discussed. Four case histories illustrate the success of such an approach to providing students with basic communication skills. Some of the difficulties peculiar to working with the underskilled in an academic environment are described. (DB)

This paper deals with a tragedy in the field of human services. The tragedy lies in the fact that a program with a fair modicum of success will not be continued because the decision-makers in the state government concerned with this area decided with insufficient justification to end this program after the summer of 1968. Six hundred boys, nine to…

Guidelines are provided for the professional youth staff member in Iowa to use in developing and implementing an educational program for youth in the inner city. The proposed guidelines are related to both organization and program, using the present 4-H and Youth Program as a base for developing programs for inner city youth. (DB)

Full-year Head Start programs are listed in State order in this directory. Mailing address and director's name are provided for each program. Locations of OCD regional offices are provided in an appendix. (KM)

The selected bibliography on minority groups and disadvantaged youth contains approximately 100 abstracts with indexing information drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of August, 1972. Abstracts were chosen using the criteria of availability of…

Pilot study. Microcounseling format is base-line measurement, training, and re-interview designed for individualized training. (DAG)

Examined relationships among sex and math/science career self-efficacy, interests, and consideration for disadvantaged students. Findings indicated sex differences in self-efficacy for three math/science careers; no sex difference for nonmath/science careers. Career consideration was related to interest. For females, confidence in meeting…

Culturally deprived (N=70) and middle-class (N=64) Israeli sixth graders were tested for creative responses to visual, aural, and verbal stimuli. Nondeprived Ss performed better on 16 out of 27 measures. The gap was not equally wide in all subtests, and verbal expression was an inhibiting factor. (CL)