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)

Examined social and spatial integration among residents of a life care facility who varied in mobility status. Able residents reported more personal discomfort with wheelchair users than with residents who used canes or walkers. These reports were reflected in their spatial separation from, and low levels of interaction with, the less mobile…

The analysis suggests that for both males and females moving, whether voluntary or involuntary, decreases formal organizational participation, has little effect upon informal social relations either within or outside the neighborhood of residence, relatively small impact upon how respondents perceive their neighbors, and little effect upon the…

When the Holloway Prison is completed, it will be the largest establishment in the penal service for women. Its education center has been designed to incorporate "all of the best aspects of new adult education centers and technical colleges in the free community." (Editor/RB)

Children considered preoperational on multiple classification skills and left-right conceptions were trained to work on classification problems under different conditions, including two variations of children working in pairs, and a situation in which children worked alone. Those in collective conditions progressed more significantly than those in…

Defends comprehensive high schools against critics, past and present, who advocate specialized high schools or dual or tripartite systems separating college-bound from noncollege-bound students. Argues that comprehensive high schools promote social class integration and democratic values, and notes James B. Conant's role in supporting…

Discusses the tenuous status of illegal immigrants in the United States, emphasizing the implications of the presence of a large class of people so alienated from the social system. Holds that undocumented immigrants should be permitted to become productive members of society. (Author/GC)

A new discourse on social policy, emphasizing social integration and participation, has given rise to a new political spectrum. On one end is collectivism and on the other individualism. Each perspective has traditional or reflective variants and there are adult education programs representing each variant. (SK)