Presented is an "artistic" rather than academic synthesis on the culturally different gifted. (BD)

Described are three studies which examined the effect of filmed modeling on cooperative play in disadvantaged children. (Author/CL)

If middle-class parents can, and do, help their children to make it into college, public policies must aim at offering poor children comparable help. (Author/RK)

Criteria that characterize competent teachers of the disadvantaged are concerned with the areas of academic preparation, preservice internships, personality, and continuous professional growth. (Author/IRT)

Describes the activities and achievements of Broome County Catholic Youth Organization 70001, a unique program for economically disadvantaged youth and high school dropouts, which offers preemployment training, educational upgrading, motivational activities, and job placement assistance. Explains the benefits for the young participants, community,…

Describes the literacy training provided by the Armed Forces as both minimal and dehumanizing, with an overriding emphasis on training young, disadvantaged recruits to perform necessary tasks without any thought or analysis. (GC)

Recent expansions in Medicaid coverage for children and state health insurance programs for children mean that the majority of low-income children in the United States now are eligible for health insurance. A new analysis of Census data, presented in this report, finds that 94% of all uninsured children with family incomes below twice the poverty…

Summarizes legislation affecting vocational education, and presents the results of a preliminary examination of statistics concerning vocational programs for disadvantaged and handicapped students. (Editor/JF)

Examined are causes of negative self concept in many gifted children, programs for disadvantaged gifted children, and the trend toward more research- for the gifted. (MC)

The poor child has not been able to meet his basic human needs, to gain broad experiences akin to success in school, or to develop a feeling of positiveness about his ethnic and socioeconomic identity. These are the priorities of concern for counselors and teachers if this child is to learn necessary skills for success. (Author)

Accuracy measures of reflection-impulsivity for girls, but not for boys, suggest that at the preschool level, at least, these cognitive style dimensions are not functionally equivalent for both sexes. (Authors/CB)

Attempts to develop a variety of remedial process'' programs at the high school level appear to be worthwhile, in terms both of the potential benefit that may accrue to the adolescents enrolled in them, and of the groundwork that may be laid for more effective remediation at earlier levels. The new approach appears to offer more potential benefit…