FIVE STUDIES ON INTEGRATION PROBLEMS WERE UNDERTAKEN AT THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RELATIONS STUDIES OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. ONE, BY ROSNER, STUDIED WHETHER A MAJORITY OF YOUTHS, WHEN PLACED IN SETTINGS IN WHICH THEY WERE THE MINORITY, ASSUMED CHARACTERISTICS WHICH WERE ROUGHLY DESCRIBED AS MINORITY BEHAVIOR. IN SPITE OF THE GENERAL CULTURAL VALUES…

RURAL AREAS HAVE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL IN THE ROLE OF DEMONSTRATING, EXPERIMENTING, AND PIONEERING NEW GOALS, PHILOSOPHIES, AND METHODS IN THE MENTAL HEALTH FIELD. GOALS IN DEVELOPING SERVICES ARE TO EXTRACT FROM CLINICAL MODELS THOSE THERAPEUTIC INGREDIENTS THAT CAN BE USED BY ALL RELEVANT MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND, IF POSSIBLE, BY ANY EXISTING…

THE ROUGH ROCK DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL IS LOCATED IN NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA, WHERE THE NAVAJO LANGUAGE IS UNIVERSALLY SPOKEN BY THE NAVAJO PEOPLE. IT IS LOCATED ON A NAVAJO RESERVATION AND WAS DESIGNED AS A BIA EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL TO SERVE 200 ELEMENTARY PUPILS, MOST OF WHOM ARE IN THE BOARDING SCHOOL SITUATION. AN OBJECTIVE OF THE SCHOOL IS TO GAIN…

HIGHER EDUCATION HAS THREE OBJECTIVES--TO TEACH THE STUDENT ABOUT HIMSELF, TO PREPARE HIM TO LIVE A WORTHY LIFE, AND TO PREPARE HIM TO EARN A LIVING. TO MEET THESE GOALS, THE INDUSTRIAL EXECUTIVE'S SPECIALIZED TRAINING IS SUPERIMPOSED ON A BROAD GENERAL EDUCATION WHICH PROVIDES HIM WITH HIS MOST IMPORTANT SKILLS, THE ABILITIES TO SPEAK AND WRITE…

THE HOMOGENOUS AND HARMONIOUS INDIAN BAND HAS VANISHED, IF IT EVER EXISTED. THE CONTEMPORARY INDIAN COMMUNITY IS AS HETEROGENEOUS AND DIVIDED AS ANY MORE ORDINARY COMMUNITY. OEO PROGRAMS ARE SOMETIMES MISDIRECTED BECAUSE THEY ARE ORGANIZED FROM THE ASSUMPTION THAT ONE INDIAN CAN SPEAK FOR THE TOTAL COMMUNITY. TWO REPORTS CONCERNING HEAD START…

THE BUREAU OF GUIDANCE OF THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT INITIATES DEMONSTRATION GUIDANCE PROJECTS FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WHICH ARE CONDUCTED THROUGHOUT THE STATE. PROPOSALS FOR THESE PROJECTS ARE SUBMITTED BY THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS BECAUSE GUIDANCE AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS CONDUCTED AT THIS LEVEL ARE MOST PROMISING. PROJECT ABLE…

PARENTS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY IN REARING THEIR CHILDREN TO BECOME MATURE, RESPONSIBLE, AND USEFUL CITIZENS. CHILDREN SHOULD SEE AND UNDERSTAND HOW GROUPS BECOME DIFFERENTIATED. PARENTS CAN ALSO HELP CHILDREN BECOME SECURE WITHIN THEIR OWN GROUP, THEREBY LESSENING THE THREAT OF CONTACT WITH PEOPLE OF OTHER GROUPS. MAKING THE CHILDREN LOVED, WANTED,…

GUIDELINES ARE PRESENTED, BASED ON THE EXPERIENCES OF SEVERAL COMMUNITIES, FOR COMMUNITIES SEEKING TO ESTABLISH OFFICIAL HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEES. MANY HAVE FORMED BIRACIAL COMMITTEES BECAUSE THEY FACED A CRISIS IN HUMAN RELATIONS. NORTHERN COMMUNITIES HAVE GONE FAR BEYOND THE SIMPLE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AND HAVE CREATED COMMISSIONS WITH…

THE DISADVANTAGED POPULATION IS IDENTIFIED AND SPECIFIC COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS COMPENDIUM, ANALYSIS, AND CRITICAL EVALUATION OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. SUBJECTS SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSED ARE--(1) THE STATUS OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (2) INNOVATIONS IN SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND STAFFING PATTERNS, (3)…

The major objective of the Independent Adoption Society's two year Community Recruitment Project was to provide permanent family care for non-Caucasian children and for children with mental handicaps. The project sought to identify and develop community resources to work together to assist the children and to encourage people who would consider…

Citizen involvement in the education process and teachers' perceptions of such involvement as threatening to their professional autonomy are examined in this report. The principal has the potential to be a moderating variable in this relationship. Community involvement and participation may be viewed in the context of a continuum ranging from…

This handbook, designed for advocates for disabled persons, focuses on understanding and researching the law. It is presented in seven chapters. Following the introduction (Chapter I), Chapter II provides a glossary of legal terms. The authors point out that in order for the law to serve as a tool for change, its language must be understood by…

A special Career Guidance program was implemented for a group of gifted and talented eleventh grade students at River Dell Senior High School (Oradell, New Jersey). Ten students and two alternates were selected from fifty-two applicants to participate in this program, which included both laboratory and shadowing experiences. Activities were…

The purpose of this Personalized Activity Kit is to provide an overview of ways to manage with people so that educational programs do get implemented and constantly improved. Emphasis is placed on program evaluation and the definition of program management. (Author/IRT)

In order to develop institutional goals for Spartanburg Technical College by a participatory process which would involve the various constitutencies of the college, two workshops were conducted. The primary purposes of the first workshop were to allow the participants to become familiar with the participatory process of goals development and to…