The authors summarize successes in training researchers in the University of Chicago economics program over the last 15 years. Students learn to investigate quantitative relations using models in which purposeful but constrained economic agents interact. They are shown how a productive research culture requires careful work, collegiality, and…

ACTING UPON RECOMMENDATIONS BY A NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT EDUCATORS, A RESEARCH CONFERENCE WAS HELD AT THE CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, (1) TO CLARIFY STUDENT PERSONNEL PROBLEMS IN JUNIOR COLLEGES, (2) TO PRODUCE A STATEMENT OF RESEARCH GOALS AND METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION, AND (3) TO STIMULATE RESEARCH INITIATIVE…

IN ITS SIMPLEST FORM, THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION AND CULTURAL DEPRIVATION REDUCES TO ONE OF HOW CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN DISADVANTAGED BY THEIR ENVIRONMENT CAN BE BROUGHT UP TO THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL OF MORE FORTUNATE CHILDREN. MANY APPROACHES ARE POSSIBLE. AMONG THE VARIABLES WHICH MUST BE STUDIED IN DEPTH ARE--THE STUDENT, HOME ENVIRONMENT, PEER…

PAIRING OF SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK CITY ILLUSTRATES THAT CITY'S COMMITMENT TO THE IDEA OF ACTUAL INTEGRATION. THE PROGRAM BROADENS THE CONCEPT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL INTO A COMMUNITY SCHOOL. THERE SEEM TO EXIST AT PRESENT IN PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN CERTAIN TENDENCIES WHICH HAVE ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES. FIRST IS THE STEREOTYPING OF ETHNIC…

THE NORTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS SURVEYED THEIR MEMBER COLLEGES TO FIND WHAT ATTITUDES PREVAILED AND WHAT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES WERE OFFERED IN THE AREA OF HUMAN RELATIONS. ALTHOUGH THERE IS A LARGE AMOUNT OF AGREEMENT AMONG THE RESPONDENTS THAT INFORMATION ABOUT AND UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN RELATIONS IN GENERAL…

BELIEF THAT ALL SCHOOL LEARNING IS INFLUENCED BY THE TEACHER'S FEELING FOR THE STUDENT, BY THE TEACHER'S CULTURAL EVALUATION OF THE STUDENT, BY CULTURAL MOTIVATION AND BY INTRINSIC VALUE IN THE CURRICULUM LED TO THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS TO HELP THE CULTURALLY DEPRIVED STUDENT--STUDY OF THE COMMUNITY, AND OF THE SCHOOL INSERVICE TRAINING OF…