Discusses attempts to find suitable technology to solve city problems, and to search for ways to heal the breach between planning and politics. (DM)

Discusses the factors responsible for the ambivalent and confused attitudes toward the urban university, including sources of resistance. Current rhetoric suggests that what used to be called urban problems is now metropolitan or human problems with the corresponding reconceptualizations of urban universities as metropolitan or generic, thus…

Successful, or at least nonviolent, strategy for school desegregation depends upon the city's social and political structure. Mayors should plan school desegregation policy as part of a total approach to urban renewal. (Author/GC)

This study indicates that students in city schools who themselves come from disadvantaged backgrounds are far less likely than those in any other type of community to enjoy the advantages of a school whose income and achievement are at the high or medium level. (Author/AM)

Compares 220 adult male felons incarcerated in New York State's Sing Sing Correctional Facility (79 percent are dropouts and 84 percent are from urban settings) to dropouts in the literature. The dropouts have many similarities with nonincarcerated dropouts and have more in common with them than with fellow inmates. (SLD)

Using the principle of critical race theory, the author contends that his Catholic, urban elementary school education was built on the integration of centric and conflict theories. The tension his adult voice creates in traditional academic discourse is discussed. (SLD)

Studies the role of education and its effect on the economic well-being of Mexican Americans in the border city of Laredo (Texas). Finds that while barrio residents are profoundly impressed with the importance of education, Mexican American earnings fail to keep pace with educational attainment. (AF)

Six Black men in their midtwenties, all from inner-city school, expressed their feelings about what it means to be a Black man and their views of family. Participants had taken varying steps toward overcoming negative self-images but still had many obstacles to overcome. (SLD)