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Download full textSchermer, George; And Others – 1988
Recognizing the broad range of social and economic limitations associated with residential segregation, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations initiated a research program to define the extent of these problems and to advance strategies for dealing with them. The initial phase of the project commissioned research papers which were reviewed and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Housing Discrimination, Minority Groups
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1982
This report presents the findings of research and public hearings on the development of racial isolation in Miami, Florida. Maintaining that Miami's black community is isolated from the city as a whole, and that the sense of black isolation and frustration precipitated the civil disturbances in Miami in May of 1980, the report examines the causes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Community, Blacks, Community Characteristics
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Project Social Studies Curriculum Center. – 1968
This recourse guide is one of a series of units on the theme Communities Around the World for grade 3. Background material on Paris, France is given for the teacher describing urban characteristics, French culture, and the physical site of the city. Objectives and goals related to concepts, generalizations, skills, and attitudes to be developed…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Community Study, Concept Teaching, Cross Cultural Studies
Guskin, Judith T.; Alexander-Minter, Rae – 1980
This report presents an anthropological perspective on the legal, demographic and community issues involved in school desegregation in Los Angeles. Views on the desegregation process expressed by lawyers, school administrators, community members, educators, and anthropologists who attended a 1978 symposium are summarized. An historical and legal…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Community Role, Desegregation Effects
Hauser, Philip M. – 1967
Addressed primarily to social scientists and administrators in developing areas, this handbook (a volume in the Technology and Society series) is designed for those not widely experienced in research design and data analysis. Many problem areas of developing nations, such as adequate housing and urban amenities, adjustment and acculturation of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, City Government, Community Organizations, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedYee, Sze-Onn – Social Studies, 1996
Presents a fascinating combination of learning activities and instructional materials investigating urban ethnic enclaves in developing countries. Briefly profiles Chinatown, Little India, and the Arab Quarter, ethnic enclaves in Singapore. Activities and discussion questions incorporate geographic, economic, and historical information. (MJP)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cultural Background, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Contact
Freeman, Ellen W.; Rickels, Karl – 1993
This book reports on the Penn Study of Teenage Pregnancy, which examined issues surrounding adolescent pregnancy, abortion, and childbearing. Participants were African-American teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 from disadvantaged urban backgrounds. Based on individual interviews over 2 years in the early 1980s, the study provided details…
Descriptors: Abortions, Adolescents, Black Students, Decision Making
Philadelphia Board of Public Education, PA. Special Committee on Nondiscrimination. – 1964
THIS REPORT STEMS FROM AN EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND PRACTICES IN THE PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ONE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE CONSISTED OF COMMUNITY LEADERS, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND SCHOOL PERSONNEL. THE FIRST SECTION OF THE REPORT DESCRIBES THE BOARD OF EDUCATION'S INTEGRATION POLICY AND CONTAINS…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Blacks, Board of Education Policy, Curriculum
Rogers, David – 1968
Examined is the educational bureaucracy in New York City and its relation to other city institutions, civic groups, and teachers and administrators. The book contains chapters on the failure of desegregation, demographic and housing patterns, the neighborhood school movement, civil rights organizations, white liberals, and the moderates. Also…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Boards of Education, Bureaucracy, City Government
Usdan, Michael D. – 1968
This document is an abridged version of a longer study of the New York City school system which has been published under the title "110 Livingston Street" (see UD 007 624). Discussed here are New York City's struggle over school desegregation, the Board of Education and its top decision makers, and the demographic and housing patterns in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Boards of Education, Bureaucracy, City Government
Campbell, Roald F. – 1969
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were the period of rapid urban development fostered by industrialization. This was also the period of system-wide development of city school districts funded by favorable tax bases from industrial property and from a complete cross-section of social strata. The first consolidation of districts began within…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Trends
Liebow, Edward B. – 1983
Life history interviews with 22 elderly Indians (16 women, 6 men, aged 60 to 81) in Phoenix suggest that for many of them the Indian Senior Center offers a sociable arena where they assume activist roles, directly addressing aging-related issues concerning health care, transportation, and emotional stress management. They engage in fund-raising…
Descriptors: Activism, Aging (Individuals), American Indian Education, American Indian History
President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. Washington, DC. – 1980
This review of perspectives on the current status and policy issues of urban America is divided into nine chapters, each of which includes a bibliography. Chapter one presents an overview of the postindustrial demographic and economic changes in the United States and the Federal government's response to these changes. The ongoing transformation of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal State Relationship, Financial Problems
Grady, Sandra C. – 1979
This monograph describes a practical, low cost needs assessment process used by Broward Community College (Florida) in cooperation with the public school system. The assessment was initiated by college administrators who needed information to plan appropriate programs and services for the residents living in a newly created service area. The…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges, Community Programs
Hauben, Jan Ward; And Others – 1974
The viability of urban cable television (CATV) as an economic phenomenon is examined via a case study of its feasibility in Boston, a microcosm of general urban environment. To clarify cable's economics, a unitary concept of viability is used in which all local characteristics, cost assumptions, and growth estimates are structured dynamically as a…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness
