The Levittown v Nyquist court case is bound to have serious repercussions for New York State. In dispute is the legality of the State's system for financing elementary and secondary education. The case was initiated in 1974 by Levittown and 24 other suburban and rural school districts who claimed to be unable to generate an adequate level of local…

There is evidence that the fortunes of our cities and their public schools are intertwined. However, in Rochester and in many other cities, there usually is little significant cooperation or support by public groups for urban education. The growth of professionalism and expertise among teachers, separation from municipal government, and domination…

This study posed some urban problems (categorized as housing, employment, and education) affecting junior colleges, and suggested how these colleges might act on the problems and whether, in fact, they were doing so. Questionnaires, interviews, and visits with faculty, administrators, and students at 21 colleges were used, and correspondence was…

Various social problems are created by migration of low-income rural people into urban areas. These people are classified "low income" because their material level-of-living is often less than that found in urban areas. The dominant national values for material well-being are based upon urban middle class standards, thus creating a social problem…

METRO-APEX is a computer based gaming simulation in which students study a large urban city and its surroundings by playing the roles of city and county politicians, industrialists, environmental control officials, city planners, land developers, and labor groups. METRO-APEX was played once a week for five weeks as part of one credit course in…

Urban educational leaders must make the educational experience relevant to children and advocate constructive changes in educational, political, and social sectors to benefit their students. They need to know what effect environment has on achievement and the relationship of teachers' attitudes to student achievement. The blame for…

Over 100 available 16mm films are listed in this annotated bibliography on urban studies. The listings are classified under new towns and new cities; film series on general urban problems; cinematic and artistic impressions of cities; ghetto problems, slums, and skid rows; and general urban planning, urban renewal, housing and neighborhood…

To determine the information needs of residents of small- and medium-sized cities in the manner previously used for large cities in Baltimore, a multistage survey was conducted of randomly-selected households in Syracuse and Elmira, New York. An information need was defined as "a problem or question recognized by an individual for which…

A total of 431 households in Tallahassee, Florida, were contacted to ascertain community perceptions of social policy issues, as required of television stations applying for license renewal. It was found that 10 percent of those contacted could think of no problems; 14 percent could not name a national problem, and 35 percent could not name a…

A series symposia conducted in commemoration of the ground-breaking for the Annenberg School of Communications Building at the University of Southern California explored the ways in which communication technology can ameliorate urban problems in Los Angeles. A portion of the keynote address by Rep. Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, plus summaries of…

Current school finance problems are discussed in three papers. The first presents an analysis of the Illinois school finance reform law, providing insights into the operation of the law and an evaluation method for examining finance laws in other states. In the second paper, the relationships between selected features of Michigan school districts…

The research reported here was supported by funds granted under the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act. Part 1, "Theoretical Vantage Points," includes discussions of economic disadvantagement, the culture of poverty, and poverty versus equality of opportunity. Part two, "Socialization and Learning," includes a discussion of the transmission of…

Black Studies means an indepth investigation of the Black Experience. Without oral history methods, this will be prostituted to mean a superficial view of opinions set forth by white society. All the broad areas of Black scholarship must begin to relate to the problems of capturing the life of the race on tape and retaining it for posterity. Oral…

One of the problems scarcely touched upon by community college effort is the amelioration of poverty in the urban college area. Since financial incompetence creates in the poor an abject state of hopelessness that affects ability to function in other areas, it may be necessary to develop skills and improve competence in handling money and in…

This is a supplement to the bibliography compiled by Earle H. West, and published by University Microfilms in 1969. Like the original, it lists dissertations covering every aspect of study relating to the Negro in the United States, and extends coverage of the subject through 1969. Subject areas are: (1) social institutions and conditions; (2)…