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NEW LITERATURE    WEAVER

analysis and evaluation of programs and practices in compensatory education from preschool through college which is available at this time.  Yeshiva also publishes the IRCD Bulletin (Information Retrieval Center on the Disadvantaged) which with ERIC (Educational Retrieval and Information Center) and some other potential sources make possible consideration of cognitive and affective dimensions of behavior as a single process.  The Miller book, Education for the Disadvantaged, is one of a series intended to cope with the information explosion affecting all of the arts and sciences and is a substituted for a bibliographical guide to the current literature-it is one of the more comprehensive analyses of current issues and research on education for the disadvantaged.

One of the factors involved in the rash of "new" literature on the education of the black ghetto child is the dilemma of the white missionary type.  Peace Corps, Vista Corps, and Teacher Cops now attract the middle-class white youth who are dedicated and consecrated and they have increasingly supplanted the WASP missionary types who are not quite as welcome in the Near-and Far-East, in Latin America, in Africa, or in the slums.  What is left for white professionals?  The education of the black Americans.  "Discovery" of the black ghetto child and proliferation o a special educational enterprise for the disadvantaged is a financially attractive endeavor, for very large sums of money are now available from both the public and private sector for the compensatory education of the black ghetto children and youth.  Moreover, th Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) will make even larger sums available for educating the disadvantaged at all levels.

The following is indicative of this kind of concern.  The Atlanta Constitution* under the general headline for a series "Educating the Disadvantaged" stated under the headline (August 12, 1968) "Project Headstart Lifts Slum Children"?

Modern educators have decided the best way to attack the problems of educating the disadvantaged child is with preschool programs designed to eliminate the causes of his deprivation.  Leading the field in the race to educate children before the raves of poverty become irreversible is the federal government's massive Project Headstart. (Italics mine.)

On August 13, 1968 under the head "City to Test Learning in Pre-School Years," the following appeared:

*Volume 101, Nos. 48 and 49.

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