Contends that black educators should define the objectives and content of Afro-American studies curricula in white universities. (KG)

Part of the Saturday Review Supplement, EDUCATION IN AMERICA, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

This lecture discusses what the ghetto of the Negro novel may have been over the last 70 years. It is stated that as time has passed, the Negro novel has never varied from its basic composition, but it has elaborated upon that basic composition in varied ways. It has, it is believed, afforded us a picture of the Negro mind which reflects both a…

A group of 80 black, urban ghetto mothers, 40 with a behaviorally disturbed child and 40 with no identified disturbed child, was evaluated by the MMPI. (Author)

Version of the paper given at The Transportation and Poverty Conference of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Argues for revival of jitneys (12-14 capacity motor vehicles, operating on fixed routes, fares zone-rated) to serve ghetto residents and provide employment, too. Taxi company competition also discussed. (KG)

The general theme of the institute was to innovate learning environments through counseling activities, thus assisting inner city youth in reaching their potential. Staff and consultants, weaknesses of the institute, and observations and recommendations are included. (CG)

The Chicago Public Library has established four reading and study centers in public housing developments, staffed by development residents. (JB)

Measuring student intelligence has been problematic in the United States since standardized testing first began in the early 1900s. The omnipresence of standardized testing in student populations is illustrated by the most popular contemporary tests which are used by some scholars to advance the notion that intelligence differences between whites…

Background/Context: The educational fate of the children of low-wage immigrants is a salient issue in all the economically developed societies that have received major immigration flows since the 1950s. The article considers the way in which educational systems in the two countries structure the educational experiences and shape the opportunities…

Author discussed the efforts to redesign Boys High School, an all-male, academic school located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Author/RK)

These authors report the results of their investigation of two groups of student teachers involved in individualizing instruction. Significant attitudinal differences were noted between those teaching in inner-city schools and those teaching in suburban schools middle class schools. (Editor)