This collection of papers from a conference sponsored by Georgia State University addresses a variety of issues and myths regarding inner-city children. Chapters deal with: (1) the educational theory of W.E.B. DuBois; (2) the explicit and implicit meaning of demythologizing the inner-city child; (3) the education of inner-city children; (4) intelligence; (5) reducing test bias in readiness tests; (6) changing teachers' perceptions; (7) attitudes and nonstandard dialects; (8) the creative arts-in-education; (9) information processing competencies of inner-city black children; (10) learning racial identity; (11) the problem of self-concept, race, and social myth; (12) a developmental theory of the inner-city child; (13) effects of childrearing practices on cognitive development of infants; and (14) effects of maternal dominance on black children. (MS)