This installment reporting on the 47th Annual PDK/Gallup Poll of American's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools focuses on American's views of the value of a high school and a college education and the affordability of college. It is the first year the poll included enough respondents to be able to break out sentiments of specific demographic…

If current efforts to create effective ethnic studies fail, the opportunity to train men with inquisitive minds, humane values, and positive identities may be lost forever.(Author)

Chicano children should learn that their bilingual and bicultural traditions are advantages. This means that their teachers must be cured of the melting pot syndrome." (Author)

Uses an article from a previous issue as a basis for a discussion of ethnic studies programs. (IRT)

In an historical review, an Asia expert examines changing attitudes toward Oriental cultures within the U.S. (Author)

Reports on the results of a survey of the occurrence of ethnic studies courses in the schools of Pennsylvania. (IRT)

Our society, polarized and dehumanized largely because of institutional racism and ethnic hostility, must eliminate conflicts between the races in the 1970's. (Author)

A sociological examination of stages in the development of the race revolution in America. This stage may require separatism. (Author)

An argument for genetic control in America. (RA)

To achieve a genuine reformation in American education, we will have to learn the delicate art of avoiding oversimplification. (Author)

Conflict over community control and de facto segregation of schools represents only a struggle for power between blacks and whites. (Author)

Interethnic knowledge and respect are worthy objectives; they must be structured to harmonize with the goals of critical thought and pursuit of truth--not to compromise them. (Author)

Details the charge that America's public schools fail to provide minority and poor children with the knowledge and skills needed to earn a decent living and to participate in the life of the nation. (Author)

White ethnic groups deserve more attention, but the wrong emphasis can lead to greater disunity. (Author)

The educator must create an environment or take advantage of an existing one where there are the kinds of problems that require, for their successful resolution, the cooperative exchange of those skills and strategies that constitute the ethnic heritage of the various individuals and subgroups in that classroom or school. (Author)