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."
(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 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…