This paper was commissioned to present a point of view not widely expressed -- that children who live and attend school in "segregated" high economic neighborhoods suffer from such isolation from the reality of the world in which they live. The authors consider the consequences of rearing the affluent young in settings which physically…

The materials included in this document were prepared for the inservice training of Adoption Site personnel by the staff of Project Focus, a Developer/Demonstration site funded by the U.S. Office of Education under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. The document is designed to be used as a complete Training Manual. During the past three…

This curriculum manual provides information, raises issues and questions of controversy, and suggests certain learning activities which will acquaint high school students with the law as it affects their lives both in school and in the community. Questions discussed in the section called Youth in School include truancy, freedom of expression,…

Violent protest by blacks, youth, and labor is the focus of the third unit of the 11th grade FICSS series (Focus on Inner City Social Studies -- see SO 008 271). The unit examines how violent protest has affected social change in the United States in politics, institutions, and behavior. Specifically the unit includes civil rights case studies;…