Children's (ages 8-12) interactive social responses to computers were examined. Results showed that students had not considered the social implications of using another's data. When infringements of their rights to privacy took place, students demanded penalties. Students showed preference for group problem-solving strategies. (RM)

Although cooperative learning evidences the greatest potential for engendering student learning, it is used no more than 20 percent of the time in most classrooms. This article reviews research on cooperative, competitive, and individualistic structures used by teachers and discusses the implications for changing teacher preparation practices. (MT)

A personal account of the detrimental effects of collective bargaining on the sense of community among a small college faculty and staff. An adversarial system of conflict resolution erodes trust and institutionalizes antagonism and dishonesty. (TE)

From a sociological perspective, examines the transition of a lower-class, Black urban community into a partially integrated, middle-class community. Describes economic and social interactions across racial and class lines. (ML)

Reviews the origin and nature of the conflict over limited program resources and the resulting tendency of each minority group to seek separatist solutions to its problems; the confluence of political and social circumstances in the sixties disintegrated common aspirations and goals in crosscurrents of individual group demands. (Author/JM)

The liberation of oppressed people involves a kind of subjective or psychological liberation as well as an objective (political, economic, and social) one. It is time to define what such subjective liberation involves, how it can be achieved, and its relationship to objective liberation and other objective social conditions. (RJ)

Describes some of the basic types and patterns of social constraints on intergroup relations research; the essay is organized into four broad patterns of constraints: (1) theoretical, ideological and professional; (2) occupational and situational; (3) governmental, institutional and monetary; and, (4) positive constraints. (Author/JM)

The purpose of this study was to explore what happened academically when a particular kind of student was placed into a particular environment. In general, it seems that homogeneous grouping of students in residence halls may have some positive effects and is worthy of further experimentation. (Author)

Discusses the growing ethnic cohesion in the Black Power movement. (KG)

Takes a specific issue, the regulating of children's television, and shows how it might be analyzed using the Krasnow-Longley-Terry systems approach to broadcast regulation. A chronological review of legislation dealing with children's television is included. (Author/JJD)

This speech, given by the director of the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice at the annual meeting of the National Association of Human Rights Workers, urges community groups to continue their efforts in the area of intergroup relations in order to battle recent upsurges of racism. (Author/GPM)

Assesses both the contact hypothesis and the superordinate goal hypothesis through an examination of interracial interaction on a desegregated high school football team. The research shows that one can be resocialized to accept and use new value codes and interaction patterns toward members of another race. (NEC)

A case study of a school board election in a metropolitan school district is used to examine the effects of electoral competition and conflict on school board behavior. (Author/MW)