The unit deals with the violent gang, not the social or delinquent gang. It is aimed at junior high and senior high school students. The student for whom violent gangs are an urgent, everyday concern should gain perspectives that will help him cope with the problem personally. Other students should be able to correct misconceptions and to deepen…

This paper argues for the use of systems analysis as a basis for building urban complexes to depart from current duplication of effort in some cases and lack of adequate effort in others. By consolidating effort with the judicious use of computers, systems analysis can provide better analysis out of an equivalent effort. Comprehensive planning…

This is the final report for the Dayton City School District Desegregation Project. Background material on Dayton and its schools is presented, as well as planning, problems, and future goals for quality integrated education. Related activities which include teacher and administrator workshops, black cultural programs, task force reports, and…

The failure of State governments to use their unique place in the Federal structure for the relief of urban areas is illustrated by the school lunch program in New Jersey. The cities have a higher share of needy students and yet do not receive a greater share of program funds than the suburbs. The lunch gap--i.e., the number of low income students…

This study, a political history, analyzes three educational crises in New York City during the last 25 years. Primary attention is given to the mayoralty in an attempt to ascertain the effectiveness of his power in education. This research analyzes his role by eliciting the actual operations of decision making (participants involved, exertion of…

A survey in the fall of 1969 revealed that of the 51 major cities which responded to a questionnaire, only four did not employ their own security officers or use city policemen in daily school operations. It is contended that it is impossible for a favorable climate for learning to be established within this type of environment. Further, it is…

This paper attends to the question of just how large should school districts be if they are to play their proper roles in the development of metropolitan areas. The major conclusion centers around the concept that to conduct certain specific educational functions, intermediate districts should be formed which serve the entire metropolitan area in…

The papers presented to a working group at the Conference on Social Deprivation and Change in Education, York, England, are comprised of the following: (1) Problems in the inner city (J.D. McConaghy), characterizing the decline of inner areas of cities in Britain as due to failure of management and of government; (2) The school and capitalist…

This chapter notes organizational and political constraints that have prevented productive urban-State relationships and suggests policies and strategies for eliminating these constraints. The report posits an emerging role for State education agencies in establishing collaboration relationships with cities. The authors suggest that those…

It is time that sociology made use of the increasingly popular teaching device of linking computer simulation and gaming. It is needed because in teaching courses in urban sociology, human ecology, and urban planning, we have found that: a) most class exercises present the community as a statis phenomenon; b) there is no quick and easy way to…

Today's university is an active, political force within our society which must actively commit its resources to the eradication of urban problems such as racism, poverty, health care, infant mortality, drug abuse, inferior housing, unemployment, education, transportation, and so on. First and foremost, the "white mask" of the university must be…

This volume of hearings relates to (1) a bill to establish a national commission on neighborhoods; (2) a bill to establish a commission to investigate the factors contributing to the decline of urban neighborhoods and the factors necessary to neighborhood survival and revitalization, and for other purposes; and (3) a bill to establish the national…

The gap between black and white median age, employment, and imprisonment is increasing. Up until the present period, structural, demographic, and cultural factors combined to sustain both hope and illusion for blacks who have so long been at the base of the American social and economic system. That combination is rapidly unravelling. (BJV)

Indian cities are growing rapidly due to natural increase and migration from rural areas. This has caused huge pollution problems and has resulted in overcrowded schools and hospitals. Conflict between religious groups has increased; so has crime. India is modernizing, but not fast enough. (CS)

Children are among the poorest of Maine's residents. Nearly 1 in 5 children under the age of 18, 19.3%, lived in families below the federal poverty line in the early 1990s. Most of these poor children lived in working families. The working poor are often missing from policy debates, but their numbers are likely to increase with welfare reform…