Participants were recruited from the Police Department and from residents of Syracuse, N. Y., for 20 weekly sessions of four five-week blocks; a steering committee of police personnel, residents, and a coordinator planned the training sessions to build human relations skills and responsibility on both sides. (AJ)

The impact of the civil libertarian thrust and market capitalism on the critical problem of social control and the lack of a common normative order in American cities is explored with respect to the possibility of establishing a meaningfully shared ethos to ensure political viability and urban stability. (EH)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

This report describes the process of drawing up a national urban policy, summarizes the views presented at various forums, and sketches much of the data and analyses relied upon by urban policymakers. Part I summarizes the process of American urbanization leading to the emergence of a new stage in urban development. Part II describes changing…

The issue of school closure has demanded the attention of most school districts serving large urban populations. Factors such as court mandates for desegregation, urban flight, diminishing financial resources, souring operational costs, and declining enrollments have added a mixture of unprecedented circumstances to the issue. The Cleveland School…

This study focused on the role of constituency-based community organizations as a key element in revitalizing the neighborhoods of Chicago and on the need for strengthening their capacity in partnerships with the private sector and with the government. The study activities included discussions by a committee of 41 people from corporations,…

This paper attempts to answer the question of what life was really like in ancient Rome, with a view to using this kind of information as cultural background for teaching Latin language and literature. There were many problems associated with daily living in ancient Rome. Writings of some inhabitants of ancient Rome attest to the fact that these…

Many US colleges and universities, including some in urban settings, are apparently less concerned with urban problems today than they were a third of a century ago. There is a growing need for a new kind of university that would aggressively approach city problems, such as an urban-grant university. This institution would become directly involved…

The positions expressed reflect several perspectives on the university-urban district cooperative leadership program carried out by Pennsylvania State University and the Philadelphia school district. The statements are made by students now holding positions as high school assistant principal, elementary principal, elementary assistant principal,…

This revised list includes games/simulations for all age levels, though often most applicable at the secondary through adult levels. In her reviews of available products, the author limited her listings to those games/simulations which are useful for educational purposes and which focus directly on social concerns relative to urban and…

This bibliography, intended primarily for secondary school teachers and students, has been published "to help many become better educated and wiser in respect to the present predicaments and present options facing mankind." It contains 1,500 citations subsumed under the following topics: general references; population problems, agriculture, food…

Seminars conducted for 90 officers were evaluated by personal observation of the seminars in progress and by a comparison of seminar participants and nonparticipants. The evaluation revealed that the initial strong impact of the seminars tended to dissipate rather quickly over time. Other major findings were that seminar participants tended to…

Future community changes in Pittsburgh over the next five years are predicted in this study, the purpose of which is to determine the extent of community consensus regarding changes and the extent to which widely differing perspectives of community leaders might contribute to conflict. One hundred and six selected, prominent, community leaders…