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Surveys usual recreational activities of Kalamazoo Negro youth, and present use of Douglass Community Center; lists unfulfilled needs and recommends larger, more diversified program with additional paid staff.

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.

Some questions asked both children and their parents in this three-year study concerned "Effects of Child's Being Colored at School."

First publication has "action team reports" from Burton and Poe Schools; second includes Alger also

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."

Describes proposal for work training program under Title 1 B of Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

Describes "Better Tomorrow for the Urban Child" Program (BTU) aimed at helping "inner-city children become more effective citizens."

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

Uses Flint Youth Study data to make structural functional analysis of delinquency among two samples of lower class Negro boys, aged twelve to seventeen, one with several police contacts per boy, the other with none.

Considers also, effectiveness of organizations aiding job-seeking youth, and these youth's attitudes toward further training.