Describes an exhibition sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring hundreds of spirals to observe, which toured 38 neighborhoods in the five boroughs of New York City in 18 months, relying on community support and extension. (JM)

The interrelationships among income, health, education, employment, and crime in metropolitan areas are explored within the context of current trends in housing, transportation, and urban growth policy. The role of inner city schools in these phenomena is assessed. Alternative metropolitan strategies for central city investment or disinvestment…

Chronicles an education reform battle of the 1920s in which teacher activists within the Milwaukee Teachers' Association emerged as champions for their students. They challenged a proposal that the school system experiment with platoon schools, which applied the efficiency of the business world to education. Their challenge offers insight into…

The political settings of elementary school principals are examined. All sampled districts had bureaucracies, but in lower income districts, principals viewed the central office more negatively than did principals in upper income districts. In middle income districts, more bargaining occurred between school and district. Neighborhoods had an…

Discusses the founding, accomplishments, and dissolution of the Center for Urban Education, which began operations on October 20, 1964; was incorporated January 18, 1965; and was dissolved effective June 30, 1973. (JM)

Reports a study of the social studies curriculum of the New York City Board of Education with the focus on curriculum innovation and implementation, with the investigation restricted to a district in which most children came from low income families and minority backgrounds; proposes curriculum development should be retained at a central level.…

Contends that intensive activity and rapid change in curriculum reform is at an end; that areas of urban and vocational education in the reform process have been ignored; and that the level of knowledge in curriculum and instruction has not advanced. Appeals for exploratory research to establish the foundation for constructing a theory of…

The increase in the number of low-power television stations may have profound effects on the volatile nature of multicultural interactions in the United States. The author examines three stations and suggests ways in which television may be used in the education of minority ethnic audiences. (MW)

A narrative taken from an oral history project being conducted on the Lower East Side in New York City by the Preservation Youth Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. The narrator is a 76 year old former millinery worker who relates her life story in terms of the class struggle, unions, self-education, and the unique Yiddish…

Criticizes Bernstein's formulation that there is a fundamental qualitative difference between working class and middle class speech--that working class speech is "restricted" and middle class speech is "elaborated." It is suggested that the relationship between social class and type of speech cannot be well described or…

A defense of the Open Admissions policy of the City University of New York, initiated in the Fall of 1970, against several of its critics. (JM)

Explores the relationship between intrinsic motivation and self-perceptions and academic achievement and attendance in 47 Black elementary school students. Suggests that some Black urban elementary students may find improving their standard English vocabulary and preferring challenging work to be socially undesirable. Implications for urban…

Provides a qualitative narrative on the importance of the preparation of three minority students for their high stakes mathematics test. Examines unintended deleterious repercussions of high stakes testing, noting advantages and disadvantages of this type of testing, and critiquing high stakes tests, particularly for minority students as a…

Native American bilingual education programs in reservation schools and in rural, off-reservation areas serving a dominate Indian population are possible and provide valuable services. In urban areas, problems like geographic spread of the Indian population and a plurality of cultural/linguistic groups may prevent successful implementation. (MCK)

Describes the Cooperative Urban Teacher Education program, operated by the Midcontinent Regional Laboratory, a Kansas City-based research and development institution established in 1966, in the days of major Federal expenditures for education. (Author/JM)