This book describes and evaluates an experiment to overcome fear and misunderstanding between races. The subjects were from four fourth grade and four fifth grade classes from two New York City schools, one predominantly white and the other predominantly Black. The experiment consisted of three full-day educational field trips. By controlling the…

Inner city children have suffered indiscriminately from strict, illogical scoring of standardized IQ tests which do not credit children with thoughtful responses accurately reflecting their experiences and backgrounds. As a result, IQ scores too often doom these children to learning situations for children of lower mentality levels than their own.…

This study illustrates the underlying premise that certain classes of participants may be adversely affected by organizational experiences in ways that are not normally recognized. Schools belong to a set of organizations whose primary function is to socialize organizational members. This function is described as the providing of a process to a…