The challenge facing urban colleges and universities must be met by: (1) commitment to excellence; (2) revitalization of liberal arts; (3) outreach programs to ensure basic reading, writing, and quantitative skills among elementary and secondary students; (4) active involvement in the preparation of public school teachers; and (5) the formulation…

Argues for using cultural brokers in the education of minorities, defining "broker" as someone who can straddle both cultures and manipulate cultural symbols and information. Suggests incorporating brokering internships into teacher training curricula, and describes a program describing a person for high risk, primarily Black, college…

Ramey and Haskins report two findings of major importance: absence of decline in test scores and absence of mother-child correlation for treated children. Implications of these findings are discussed. (Author)

Reviews learning patterns of Black children and problems they encounter within the educational system. Author confirms that these children are eager to learn but teachers and classroom environments are unable to meet their individual needs. (Author/JLF)

Evaluation of large-scale programs is problematical because of inherent bias in assignment of treatment and control groups, resulting in serious regression artifacts even with the use of analysis of covariance designs. Nonuniformity of program implementation across sites and classrooms is also a problem. (Author/GSK)

Stating that the poorest and least educated adults participate the least in educational programs, the author considers lessons learned through large-scale demonstration projects that use innovative recruitment and programing techniques. (SK)

Presents a method for devising short routines for presenting written material to a whole class and in which the learner who has been left behind can succeed in front of his classmates. The encouragement for achievement dispels his negative feelings about himself and for English. (Author)

Caroline Hodges Percell's views on the purpose of schooling are reviewed in this article. Her data demonstrating the school's role in encouraging the continuation of the inequalities of American society are discussed. (EB)

Discusses Marxist theory and scholarship as they illuminate the relationships between basic writing courses, language, literacy, and values, both in the broad institutional context and in the narrower instructional context. (RL)

Discusses the development of a curriculum in physics and biology designed to help prepare academically disadvantaged college students, most of whom are members of racial or ethnic minority groups. Reasons are given for addressing concept formation and reasoning development together, and for direct experience preceding discussion of formal…

Terry O'Banion discusses the history of the League for Innovation in the Community College, defines developmental and remedial education, presents several alternatives to the deficit model of developmental education, describes barriers to changing this model, highlights programs for improving self-concept, and identifies important faculty…

Discusses some of the problems faced by Black colleges and their role in Black achievement. Suggests some policies and goals that focus on the survival and progress for Black colleges and for Blacks. (EB)

A study of educational disparities investigates school enrollment ratios of French-speaking African nations. Discussion covers the range of disparities, persistence of educational inequalities, mechanisms of reproduction and transfer of inequality, increased school enrollments, educational adaptation, and reversal of tendencies. (ND)

Studied the sociocultural context in which Brazilian children acquire and use everyday mathematics in terms of currency use. Participants were 105 children, ages 4 to 11, and their parents. Found decreased use of currency with increasing age. Children also used currency to aid their problem solving and progressed from global estimates to the…

Interviewed staff from seven Scottish further education colleges describing themselves as "community colleges" and analyzed college mission statements and development plans. Examined the impact on the access and participation of educationally disadvantaged groups of colleges' deregulation and independent incorporation; subsequent…