Efforts of Native organizations, coordinated through the National Indian Brotherhood, resulted early in 1973 in acceptance by the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs of the policy paper, "Indian Control of Indian Education", which legally gives Indian, Metis, and Inuit people control over their own schools. The paper explains the…

The St. Louis Public Schools have used magnet schools to meet the goals of desegregating the system and improving the quality of education for students. The changes in the St. Louis Schools began in 1975 with the issuance of a Consent Judgement and Decree. The Consent Decree provides broad guidelines which allow the system to develop specific…

Lapp schools in Sweden and some of their current problems are described. In discussing teacher training and related educational situations, a brief history of Lapp education is given, beginning with the establishment of the Skytteanian School in 1632. From the second half of the 1700's, there existed both permanent and ambulatory schools in the…