This paper summarizes a study of 571 children with developmental disabilities between 6 weeks and 12 years of age living in the largest slum in Asia, the Dharavi neighborhood of Bombay, India. Each child was administered developmental and psychological tests, diagnosed, and treated by a special early intervention clinic. Most had not had their…

PART OF A KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SERIES ON COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS MONOGRAPH DESCRIBES AND DEFINES THE NATURE OF URBAN CENTERS AS PHYSICAL ENTITIES. BASIC LAND USE CATEGORIES AND SUBDIVISIONS, FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (MANUFACTURING, RETAIL, WHOLESALE, DIVERSIFIED, TRANSPORTATION, MINING,…

THE FIRST PAPER OF A PANEL, BY AARON BROWN, BRIEFLY REVIEWS SOME ISSUES OF PARENT-COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN THE SCHOOLS. HE NOTES THE INCREASING COMMUNITY CONCERN WITH BETTER TEACHER PREPARATION AND PERFORMANCE, QUALITY INTEGRATED EDUCATION, AND VARIOUS CURRENT EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES. HE POINTS OUT THAT THE PRINCIPAL IS THE KEY TO THE…

THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATING SLUM CHILDREN IS SPECIAL AND SHOULD NOT BE BUTTRESSED WITH DEMOCRATIC SLOGANS. AN EXAMPLE OF THE LATTER IS GIVING SLUM CHILDREN AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE TEACHERS WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE GOOD IN OTHER SCHOOLS. TRANSFERRED TO THE SLUM SCHOOL, THEY BECOME DEMORALIZED AND FAIL. THEIR INSUFFICIENT SOCIAL AWARENESS AND THEIR LACK OF…

BECAUSE OF THE TEACHER'S FEAR OF DIFFICULT SCHOOLS, HER RESISTANCE TO TEACHING IN THEM, AND HER LACK OF UNDERSTANDING FOR THE LOWER CLASS CHILD, HUNTER COLLEGE'S PROJECT TRUE SET UP A PROGRAM ORIENTING EDUCATION STUDENTS TO LOWER CLASS CULTURE. THE STUDENTS' REACTIONS WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEIR NEGATIVE ATTITUDES CHANGED. FOUR…

This report, released by The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in July, 1968, is comprised of three studies: (1) "The Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities" study includes black views of racial issues, white beliefs about Negroes, a comparison of black and white attitudes and experiences in the city, and the uses of…

Written by teachers for other teachers, this book is a collection of statements which show the changes that have occurred in British primary schools in recent years. Recollections of 80 years of change are followed by teacher's eye views of how teaching had changed, as have attitudes towards children and parents. Several accounts show how…

Collaborative educational programs which are succeeding in the Bronx are described. The results have been achieved as corporations, universities, cultural institutions, and health-care facilities have shared their resources with the students. The dropout rate has dropped and the students' aspirations have increased as the schools have begun to…

Based on direct observation of farmworker housing, reviews of the literature on the subject, "openended" interviews with migrant workers or members of their families, and visits to some 75 camps in Texas, Florida, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, and Colorado, this report examines the conditions of migrant housing. Part I provides a brief historical…

A SERVICE PROGRAM FOR MOTHER-DAUGHTER GROUPS WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED AS PART OF A DELIQUENCY PREVENTION PROGRAM IS DESCRIBED AND EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. THE PROGRAM WAS SET UP TO REDUCE COMMUNICATION BARRIERS BETWEEN THE MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS AND TO HELP THE MOTHERS COPE WITH THE CHILD-REARING PROBLEMS OF POOR, ONE-PARENT FAMILIES. ALL OF THE…

THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF CURRENT PROBLEMS IN URBAN EDUCATION. IN THIS CONTEXT IT DESCRIBES SUCH INTERVENTIONS AS A PILOT PROJECT IN THE DETROIT, MICHIGAN, PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND NEW YORK CITY'S HIGHER HORIZONS PROJECT. THESE PROJECTS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY (1) THE USE OF SPECIALIZED EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS AND SMALLER CLASS SIZE, (2)…

The first of the document's major components is the report of the Cleveland three-year career development program. Intended to bridge the gap between school and earning a living for students in an urban poverty area, the program begins in elementary school and continues through high school. Eight goals and related performance objectives were…

Demographic and health data on Glenville, one of the major distressed inner-city areas of Cleveland, were brought together to identify health needs and develop the resources and services necessary to meet these needs. The lack of physicians and primary health care programs in the area is compounded by the large number of low-income and public…

The basic point which this discussion attempts to emphasize is that the political perception of urbanization in Tropical Africa tends to be dominated by concern with urban unemployment (and its social and political consequences) as the major, visible and explosive byproduct of the acceleration of rural-urban migration which has been one of the…

Kingston, capital of Jamaica, has been molded by three institutions: colonialism, the sugar plantation, and slavery. It has an enormous marginal population living in permanent poverty and not absorbable into the labor force. This marginality, fundamentally related to dependent capitalism, sustains itself by keeping wages low. (CS)