Social studies materials for secondary grades containing case studies of social problems which require critical thinking skills are assessed and described. (SM)

Reports a study investigating the relationship between selected social characteristics--age, sex, occupation, education, and regional residence--of black Americans and their satisfaction with the pace of school desegregation. (Author/JM)

An interview with Wallace Westfeldt, NBC news executive who has been assigned to conduct a thorough study and evaluation of NBC news operations prior to assuming a new post after stepping down as executive producer of NBC-TV nightly news. (JM)

Drawing attention to the important distinction between macro- and micro-employment policy, traces and analyzes the evolution of American employment public policy. (JM)

Describes in detail the dispute between Weeksville, a nineteenth century village of blacks residing in Brooklyn, and the Brooklyn Board of Education, beginning in early 1869, concerning the hiring of a white teacher. (JM)

How, in a presidential election year, the political education of young people can be enormously advanced. (Author)

No great diminishment of nationalism is predicted; rather, interaction among the four dimentions of nationalism (traditional, striving, protective, and imperialistic nationalism) will sustain the nation-state and the interactions of those states in the international system of states. (Author/JB)

Shortened version of an article to be entitled "Integration and Separatism in Education", and to be published early in 1970, along with six other articles, by Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York. (AF)

Effective educational innovation is possible only when accompanied by basic political and societal change: such change will determine whether deschooling leads to a vulgarization of learning or to universal access to the tools of learning for those needing them. (JM)

This course, developed at student initiative and designed to relate to student experience in the contemporary social and political scene, is a new required course in the School of Social Studies at the University of Sussex. (IR)