Issues brought up at the International Consortium for Options in Public Education -- the role and administration of alternative schools, the function of schools, and community control -- are reviewed. (KM)

The data for the years 1969-1972 clearly support the ethnic succession-decentralization hypothesis. The new ethnic groups in New York City, the blacks, and Hispanics are achieving greater success in penetrating the school bureaucracy in the decentralized than in the centralized districts. (Author)

Examines the scope and variety of past demands for community-controlled schools in New York, which were especially visible in the actions of three groups: Irish Catholics in the 1840s; Jews in the period surrounding the turn of the century; Italians in the middle 1930s and early 1940s. (Author/JM)

Discusses the busing controversy, the increasing demand for community control of schools, and the general discontent with the public school system through an analysis of school desegregation in Chicago. (Author)

Argues that the question for those concerned with education and politics is to determine the possibilities, limits and likely consequences of community control of the schools or its alternatives, and that by taking particular political decisions it will be possible to shape extra-political factors so as to either to enhance or to limit the…

Suggests the extent to and particular ways in which urban governments and school systems are undemocratic and unresponsive to community needs. Provides an example of the general inability of minority groups to obtain their social and political goals through either protest or political bargaining. (Author/AM)

State departments of education, administrators, educational testing systems, and the media are demanding uniformity of instructional units and of performance objectives for community college English courses. Limited funds and the desire to promote a favorable public image are factors encouraging standardization of instruction. Presently, policy…

A critical review of the widespread acceptance of accountability, pointing out that accountability is plagued by difficulties with measuring learning, with lack of research evidence to show that it benefits students, and with few plans for formally evaluating these models on a pilot basis before plunging ahead. (Author/JM)

Educators are increasingly criticized because education's implicit promise of vocational success is unfulfilled. This attack is intensified by general public skepticism toward commoditized social services, which has become a political issue. Educators have difficulty responding to these challenges because, in claiming professional status, they…

The research had four objectives: (1) to describe home-school-community relations in selected IGE schools; (2) to explain the home-school-community relations and the implementation of IGE political terms using issue analysis and policy acceptance analysis; (3) to generate hypotheses from the data gathered through objectives 1 and 2, and relate…

Discusses racial integration, school finance, minority teachers and administrators, training urban school teachers and administrators, the politics of education, educational employee organizations, community control, Title 1, and educational research and evaluation. (AM)

Argues that the eradication of all state supported racial subordination in the public schools was the essence of the Brown decision. Where separation cannot be promptly remedied, as in majority black districts, civil rights should seek, and courts order, plans designed to involve black parents in the school process in facilities are held…

This response endeavors to deal with the specific contentions of the Bell thesis, asserting that it represents nothing more than a capitulation and submission to rapacious unconstitutional behavior that society expects no other group to endure, and discusses the moral, as distinguished from the practical, objection that black parents and children…

A detailed and critical review of an anthology edited by Nathan Wright entitled What Black Educators Are Saying.'' (JM)

This ethnographic account of community development relates the successful efforts of Shiloh County (a pseudonym for a small, rural political subdivision in the American South) to achieve local autonomy while using external resources to meet local needs. The study describes the political influences of family, religion, neighborhood, community and…