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Analyzes needs of children in three lower east-side Detroit schools and tells how social studies texts could be changed to serve those needs.

By testing youth at Detroit Youth Opportunity Center finds group administered EPI (Environmental Participation Index) a "quick, convenient, method of assessing extent of a cultural deprivation by exposure, for male subjects."

Survey of "plans and needs of graduates from various socio-economic and cultural areas" finds "need for more educational and guidance services to minority youth."

Through questionnaires studies family characteristics, and nature of crime committed by boys who have had two or more court hearings, living in two inner city Detroit areas.

Wayne County Juvenile Court judge, after studying data on seven hundred children admitted to the Wayne County Youth Home in July, 1967, discusses social causes of riots.

Investigates "three of the conditions under which [eighty fifth and sixth grade Negro boys in two integrated Detroit Public Schools] would exhibit differential levels of belief that events are beyond personal control."

Finds I.Q. scores of Jackson Negro kindergartners to increase 6.66 points in two years as social interaction occurs. Examined at Jackson Board of Education.

Negro Youth. Presents data, secured from youth agencies, as to numbers, place of residence, living conditions, delinquency, employment, ratings on intelligence and aptitude tests, education, organizational affiliation, recreational interests and…

Youth are judged by their reading level to be, in actual performance, several grades below their school-assigned grade. This policy of "social promotion," increases school drop-out chances, and almost insures failure at jobs assigned because of…

Persons studied are "a group of young Negro adolescents, living in a lower social-economic area of a great industrial metropolis."