The following questions are discussed: (1) What is the impact of central city desegregation on the totality of metropolitan segregation?, (2) What is happening to metropolitan areas?, (3) What is the future of central cities?, and (4) What is the role of the schools? (Author/AM)

This article, the first of a series of four on school-affiliated daycare programs, presents an introduction to the "public school prime-sponsorship" debate, followed by an account of the history and development of the Education for Parenthood Pilot Project in Austin, Texas. (CM)

One of the most important elements in the prevention of school violence and vandalism is the active involvement of the entire educational community. (Author/AM)

Endorses a system that would be non-competitive, because competition encourages the development of people who spend their time learning not so much how to succeed as how to make other people fail. (Author/AM)

The family unit, as the source of most impact on the development of children, must be again defined as the key system for humanizing children and enhancing child development. (Author/MJB)

A teacher can be valuable in aiding the recognition of seizure patterns in children and in providing further insight into possible side effects of anticonvulsant therapy, which might occur to the child in the classroom. (JD)

The role and function of a college of education should continue to be analyzed. (MM)

The following variables were correlated with attitudes toward science: school type, future specialization, curriculum, sex, achievement level, and cultural background. Only the curriculum variable did not correlate significantly. (MLH)

Describes the historical process through which certain social meanings became particularly school meanings and a study of kindergarten experience that documents the potency and staying power of these particular social meanings, and raises the question of whether piecemeal reforms can succeed. (Author/MLF)

Summarizes trends for several indicators of student career development collected in 1973 and again in 1983. Among the major trends was a 32 percent increase in the proportion of 11th graders who reported receiving career planning help from their schools. Also the proportion of students involved in typical career exploration activities increased…

It is estimated that the number of children (currently 14 million) who are part of single parent families will be increased by one million each year. Questions and answers which illuminate the role that schools need to have in helping one parent families are discussed. (CB)

Definitions of emotional abuse are discussed. Suggestions are made that can be implemented in the school and the family to protect children from emotional and physical abuse. (LM0)

School curricula are not politically neutral grounds of knowledge. Rather, each takes certain social forms and embodies certain interests. The article discusses how the power of class, race, and gender dynamics determines curriculum structure. It also discusses the role of the school in capitalist countries. (JL)

According to a recent Harris poll, over 50 percent of American teachers believe that the most critical factor undermining school performance is children's being left alone after school. Lack of child care in the U.S. has reached crisis proportions. Twenty-first century schools will need to be dual-purpose and creatively financed. Includes five…

Identifies noninstructional conditions leading to semiliterate high school graduates, including the inaccessibility of books, lack of time to read, lack of readers as role models, and barriers within the curriculum and school structure. Argues that educational reforms emphasizing only instruction are unlikely to change these conditions. (DMM)