Synthesizing a diverse group of studies, author argues that reading disability is not a unitary phenomenon but can result from deficiencies in different psychological processes. Based on the points at which an individual's reading breaks down, she presents a fourfold classifications scheme capable of categorizing all poor readers. (Editor/RK)

Reviews the research that has led to a new formulation of the reading process and emphasizes the remarkable similarities that have been found inprocesses underlying reading and other cognitive capacities. Using the example of developments in woodcut book illustrations, he examines the relations between the process of reading and the history of…

Argues that it is white America that has made 'Roots' a best seller because it is comforting to most white Americans. The book doesn't make most of them feel quilty. It is consistently upbeat and optimistic. It contains much of the old dialect that depicts Blacks as being not-too-bright. It seems to say while some mistakes were made everything has…

Determines how 70 administrators of black public colleges think desegregating higher education would effect the quality and quantity of education received by blacks, the economic benefits to blacks from education, the future faculty, staff, and student body compositions at black public colleges, and the continuation of the black public college as…

Argues that in order to discharge their social and professional responsibility to promote awareness and understanding about the phenomenon of black liberation, black sociologists and educators must both recognize and help others realize that "the practice of racial prejudice and discrimination constitutes an environmental problem of the first…

The societal paradox of abundant opportunities and numerous constraints affects black people's expectations, frustrations, and anger. Specific questions that this paper examines are: What are some possible causes of anger? How have black people reacted to anger-provoking situations? And what are future prospects for black people? (Author/JM)

51 second and third graders participated in a study to determine the extent to which structured group counseling with elementary school students can affect the child's self-esteem. Secondary purposes were to determine the effects on self-esteem of working with significant adults, namely parents and teachers, in the child's life. (Author/JM)

Argues that if black higher educational institutions are to survive, these institutions must redefine their role (s). Then the majority of these institutions can begin to deal with their most salient task--the development of viable educational programs which have as their focus the equipment of black people with the skills to compete, govern and…

Titles are classified into categories which the writed hopes will be useful to the graduate student in locating research in progress. The name of the student, thesis title, and the graduate institution are given. In most instances, the names of the members of the advisory committee are included. (Author/JM)

Authors traced the development of nonformal education and question whether it can bring significant income and status benefits to the economically disadvantaged in developing countries. (Editor/RK)

Article briefly discussed the European motives for the cultural penetration of Africa which resulted in the emergence of the university as the most sophisticated instrument of cultural dependency, the nature of that dependency, and the slow but fundamental process of decolonization of the university. (Author/RK)

In this article the author described recent changes in Chinese higher education and gave a personal account of a visit to an English class at Wuhan University. (Editor/RK)

In this essay, the author describes the difficulty of publishing in the Third World as part of a larger relationship of dependence of developing countries on industrialized nations. (Editor)

Notes that equal educational opportunity, or equal preparation for life, is not simply the removal of legal barriers to non-segregated schooling. Equal educational opportunity requires a commitment of dollars and time and unstinting personal support. (Author/AM)

Discusses the literature dealing with the black family, the family as a holistic unit, the black womans' role and the myth of matriarchy, children and their place, and the changing nature of the black male and his effect upon the black family. (Author/AM)