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A Comparison of the Psycholinguistic Functioning of "Educationally Deprived" and "Educationally Advantaged" Children
Finds greatest differences between deprived, largely black, and advantaged, predominantly white children in a "midwestern suburb of 60,000" relate to speech pattern-analogs, grammar, vocabulary.
A Follow-Up Study of a Sample of Trainees from the Mayor's Youth Employment Project
Studies sixty-seven non-white trainees, nearly three quarters women, a majority of whom felt YEP vestibule training helpful.
A Manual for Reading Coordinators in the Detroit Great Cities Project.
Describes Great Cities Project; defends and explains its concentration on reading improvement.
A Profile of the Detroit Negro, 1959-1967, rev. ed.
Covers "population, housing, education, labor/economic situation, vital statistics, health and welfare."
A Report and a Proposal to the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Development
Contains review of previous related projects and description of target area; analysis of life style of youths; tabulations of related social agencies, public and private; educational programs; recreation facilities; job training and employment…
A Report of Immediate Needs of Public Schools in Areas Affected by Civil Disturbances of July 1967 [by] Norman Drachler, Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools
Needs include more teachers, buildings, textbooks, opening of swimming pools, instituting tutoring programs and after school programs
A Report on the Treatment of Minorities in American History Textbooks.
"Concludes that social studies textbooks in use in Michigan schools are very seriously deficient in their treatment of minorities in general and Negroes in particular."
