A Study Of The Motivation Of Students Who Completed The Junior Year Of High School, And Who Are Members Of Socially, Economically And Culturally Deprived Areas.

Author

• Maxwell J. Ihrig

Publication Date

5-30-1967

Abstract

Project Upward Bound was a program initiated by the Office of Economic Opportunity to wage war on talent waste in our high schools throughout the United States today. The program itself was really a pre-college program for low income youngsters. It was perhaps best summed up in the following quotations from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, at the 1965 White House Conference on Education: "Millions of youngsters from impoverished backgrounds are caught in a downward spiral of second-rate education, functional illiteracy, delinquency, dependency and despair. How can we halt this tragic waste of human resources? How can we turn it around and make it a positive force for the common good?" Following the White House Conference, in 1965, Sargent Shriver announced that the Office of Economic Opportunity would wage war against "America's greatest talent waste--the loss of skill and exceptional minds of those young people who are capable of going to college, but cannot do so because of the psychological, social and physical conditions of poverty."

Document Type

Dissertation

Language

English

Degree Name

Educational Leadership

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy

First Committee Member (Chair)

Devoy Alonzo Ryan

Second Committee Member

Wayne Paul Moellenberg

Third Committee Member

Illegibe

Fourth Committee Member

Frederick Martin Chreist

Recommended Citation

Ihrig, Maxwell J.. "A Study Of The Motivation Of Students Who Completed The Junior Year Of High School, And Who Are Members Of Socially, Economically And Culturally Deprived Areas.." (1967). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_teelp_etds/588