Recently, artwork of child artists from the Carrolup settlement school in Western Australia was rediscovered in the archives of the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. The young artists were among what was then called the half-caste children and now known as the Stolen Generation. Between the late 1800s and mid 1970s the Australian…

Background Context: In most immigrant-receiving societies, an important question, both for researchers and policy makers, has been the weighing of the relative efficiency of different formulas in the learning of the host language by immigrant students, especially the potential impact of specific services on social integration and the role of…

Special classes to facilitate the educational integration of the migrant workers' children teach the language of the host country and instruct in the students' languages some of the subjects that they will carry when placed in routine classes. (JH)

A capsule review of Israel's educational and facilities program since 1948. (Author/MLF)

An examination of the social organization of the American Rom Gypsies, focusing on the mechanisms and dynamics by which they maintain a distinct way of life in the face of assimilative pressures. (EH)

This factsheet describes a theater workshop in London, England, called Chicken Shed, in which children with and without disabilities or learning difficulties work together to produce performances for public audiences. The factsheet describes the members of the theater workshop, the group's philosophy, the opportunities it offers, the impact of…

This paper describes teacher attitudes and circumstances during and after Dayton City School's successful desegregation. Teachers were moved to integrated schools relatively early and easily. As a group, they did not become involved in the 1972-76 busing brouhaha that accompanied court-ordered desegregation. Fearing the destabilization of their…

According to transactional analysis theory, each human has three identities -- the parent, the adult, and the child -- and moves in and out of them many times during a day. Explores the theoretical and methodological implications of this approach as a classroom management technique. (JF)

While it is difficult to determine the seriousness and authenticity of the demands for ethnic pluralism in our school curriculum, there is a danger in overemphasizing the narrow ethnocentric aspects of American life which can lead to a distortion of our common national heritage. (EH)

Consists of 8 articles entitled: (1) Winners and Losers; (2) What the Statistics Say; (3) Northern Integration; (4) Massive Resistance Northern Style; (5) The Case of New York City; (6) As the Students See It; (7) Mississippi Conversations; (8) Reflections on the Past Twenty Years. Each deals with the aftermath of Brown vs. the Board of Education.…

The Congress on the Quality of Life considered the relationship of the later years to the whole of life's continuum including normal aging, pathology, prevention of some conditions through exercise, good nutrition and dental care, and special considerations relating to mental and emotional health and economic and social conditions. (RC)

Maggie Kuhn, organizer of the Gray Panthers movement, talks about aging myths and old people and the handicapped, housing, and the family, with implications for home economics curricula. (MF)

Examined the effects of acquaintanceship on school-age children's interactions with respect to these specific components: (1) information exchange; (2) engagement in mutual activities; (3) negative evaluations of the other; and (4) efforts to direct other's behavior. (Author/RWB)