Fictional poem of a black student and his white teacher, which won third prize in the 1972 Today's Education Teachers' Writing Competition. (CB)

There are systematic techniques available to enable indigenous lay personnel to develop and implement effective courses of action for the students. The results suggest that the functional professionals are not simply a measure of last resort, but rather, when appropriately employed, may be a preferred mode of treatment, constituting the human link…

Educational institutions at all levels must respect the dialects of Negro students and initiate programs of instruction in these dialects. Only in this way can discrimination in fact against this minority group in our culture be stopped. (CK)

High school students from the ghetto have special problems that need more attention than mere talk. To help students find solutions to problems, a new guidance program is suggested for the ghetto school, and the Center for Personal Advancement, now in effect at a Philadelphia high school, is offered as one example. (Author)

THE AREA TO WHICH THIS GROUP OF TEACHERS WILL BE SENT IS CHARACTERIZED BY ITS LARGE INFLUX OF POOR NEGRO FAMILIES WITH POOR CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS. SOME OF THE PROBLEMS OF THIS AREA WILL REQUIRE A BROAD-SCALE, CAREFULLY ANALYZED, AND PLANNED ATTACK WITHIN AND BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. EVERY SCHOOL HAS A HIDDEN OR SUBLIMINAL CURRICULUM WHICH TEACHES, IN…

Advocates an epidemiological view of the failure of ghetto education, and singles out the racism of urban educators as the prime causal factor. (JM)

Research shows that social class is a more important variable in determining educational achievement than race. Schools which provide a middle class milieu, therefore, will offer the best opportunities for achievement for Negro students. Consequently, the movement toward decentralization, which may effectively curtail integration, may further…

This study investigated how much of the Language Instruction Register (variation in language in different social situations) black-vernacular speaking children had acquired by grades one, three, and five. A sentence repetition task was devised which contained selected Language Instruction Register forms having black ghetto vernacular semantic…

The interacting forces of poverty stricken youth, teacher behavior towards these youth, and the influence of this behavior on subsequent academic performance are studied. (CK)

Reprinted from the Fall 1968 issue of "Daedalus.

A grant from The New World Foundation made possible a series of lectures during the academic year 1969-1970 on the theme "Urban Education in the 1970's." A number of the specialists who had participated in the first work conference were invited to deliver another lecture. Each was asked to take another look at urban education from the vantage of…

This experiment, carried out in the school year following an Integrated Black History Institute conducted during the summer of 1969, attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of the social studies units and instruction developed at the Institute. (JM)

This paper reviews school desegregation issues since the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley case. The Milliken decision ruled that crossing of school district lines for desegregation was not permissible. Dissenters from this ruling predicted that the effects of the decision would be an acceleration of the national trend toward residential, political and…