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The Constant Search; the Story of Federal Aid to Detroit Schools.
Sketches various programs beginning with Great Cities School Improvement Program in 1959
The Culturally and Socially Deprived Reader
Describes Detroit Writers' Project which in preparing new pre-primer series, studied language development and interests of inner-city child. (Reprinted as p.129-136 of The Under-achiever in Reading, Proceedings of the Annual conference on reading…
The Culturally Deprived--a Matter of Concern
(ERIC Document ED 001039; Reprinted in Childhood Education 38: 412-420. May 1962)
Describes the population for whom the Great Cities program is intended.
Describes the population for whom the Great Cities program is intended.
The Culture of Unemployment: Some Notes on Negro Children
Concludes on basis of 1962 interview study of male children of unemployed Negro couples that the "boys do not perceive an open opportunity structure; they feel powerless in the environment, but not necessarily normless."
Excerpt from Shostak,…
Excerpt from Shostak,…
The Detroit Area Study, a Bibliography of Materials Based on Detroit Area Study Research, September 1, 1951 - December 31, 1960.
Lists the many publications some of which include analyses by race, resulting from the social science-oriented research.
The Detroit Criminal Court of Record during the July 1967 Riot - as Evaluated by Volunteer Attorneys
Relates evaluations of court's performance to race of person evaluating.
The Detroit Experiment: Precedents for the poor
University of Detroit's Urban Law Program of legal aid to poor.
The Detroit High School Leaver Project, Final Report [by] the Michigan Employment Security Commission, and the Detroit Board of Education, in cooperation with U.S. Bureau of Employment Security.
Detailed study of dropouts in a predominantly black population.
The Detroit Low-Income Negro Family
Presents and interprets much statistical data and recommends concerted community action in the area of family disorganization