Discusses the conduct of a civil engineering program at both graduate and undergraduate levels with emphases placed on complex environmental and social problems of contemporary society. Indicates that students are provided with the ability to understand goals, formulate problems, pose alternative solutions, and test the results in the real world.…

Uses a timeline approach, beginning with the arrival of blacks in America, to explain geographic location of blacks within the city, housing patterns, economic and social conditions, and how all of these affected educational arrangements for blacks in urban America. (Author/JM)

Examines briefly state control of public education and some of the adverse consequences for black cities, and considers strategies for resolving or alleviating the problems, some of which should be directed toward having the state exercise its power fairly, and others toward strengthening the city. (Author/JM)

A study involving low-income mothers in Los Angeles showed that barriers to the utilization of preventive services were reinforced by alienation. (DM)

Discusses a six-week course in urban problem solving conducted by Newark College Engineering for high ability inner-city students in the summer of 1971 and 1972. Indicates that the experiment in mixing urban laboratories, city problems, and high school juniors is an educational success. (CC)

Proposes that the process of education be studied as a process, using the qualitative methods of anthropology and sociology, and including longitudinal investigations of the processes by which exceptional teachers and schools succeed in the education of impoverished youth. (JM)

A short history of the Community Free School, the relationship of scattered schools to the pedagogical model, a presentation of the substance of the study, and its results and conclusions. (DM)

Contents of this region-by-region review includes reports on the removal of Rev. Theodore Hesburgh from the Commission on Civil Rights, the activities of a multi-racial organization in Los Angeles called the Coalition Against Blaxploitation,'' and other events. (JM)

Undergraduate urban studies programs will fail unless they are part of a program that integrates the development a of the total personality in one comprehensive educational experience. (Editor/IR)

Description of Vermont Academy's field study program in Jersey City, involving inner city scholarship students and regular (middle class) students working together on urban studies. (JB)

Describes travel experiences in foreign cities to illustrate the authors' contention that cities provide an ideal context for developing critical thinking in students. Argues that schools should exploit urban resources to relate students' learning experiences to their everyday lives. (Author/JM)

Declining financial resources necessitate the reevaluation of educational priorities. Those who see the urban problem as financial urge the maintenance of a balanced school budget and suggest new sources of revenue. This view's shortcomings include a lack of social compassion and failure to recognize the problem of racial discrimination.

To answer critics of the Bicentennial who are wary of studying too much past history and ignoring problems facing cities today, the author suggests areas which can be studies which are relevant to both the past and present. For example, major cities still experience age-old problems of fire, sanitation, traffic control, crime, and public works.…