The author describes his feelings as the only teacher at his school to support the New York City teachers' strike in 1961. (SJL)

Although New York City has received the bulk of publicity on the decentralization issue because of the bitter conflicts there, the issue exists in other large cities as well. Community members, especially in the ghettos, have become disenchanted with the bureaucratic organization and want to have a voice in policy decisions. Teachers, on the other…

The twin rationales for this study are: (1) that the educational implications of metropolitan conditions deserve further study; and (2) that these implications transcend national boundaries. The study focuses on two facets of metropolitan school systems located in four metropolises: the characteristics of teachers and the patterns of perceived…

This paper revisits the educational reform movement of the 1960s, focusing on the role of teacher unionism and its impact on the politics of education during that decade. Historians of education have failed to combine information about the social composition and political culture of the teaching force, as well as the political culture of the labor…

This conference report on militancy in education contains papers presented by experts in collective negotiations and seeks to present a balanced point of view of collective negotiations by involving teacher organization representatives, school administrators, school board members, and university faculty members. Topics covered include problems in…

The author asserts that school principals are increasingly becoming targets for a number of pressure groups advocating change in the school system, and that foremost among these groups are the faculties which the principals have striven to lead. Teacher militants are challenging administrative procedures and policies, demanding a right to be…

Studies on both sides of the Atlantic reveal that the processes by which educational policy is made is highly political. In the 1960's education seemed particularly vulnerable to a realignment of forces because it has traditionally had some elements of localism and a degree of separateness as a governmental service based on the nature of its…

The upheaval in large city school systems during the late 1960s and early 1970s is examined in this book. Most of the specific examples are drawn from school districts in New York City, such as Ocean Hill-Brownsville and Canarsie. The problems of growing demands for community control, ethnic and racial conflicts, and school decentralization are…