Describes the Queensborough Community College (NY) Port of Entry program, which provides Chinese immigrants with intensified language development, American culture, lifestyles, and higher education orientation. Considers the program's objectives, history, changes since its inception, and problems encountered. (PS)

Notes that when a family is compulsorily referred by school for therapy, treatment failure can ensue if therapist ignores probability of family-school conflict and focuses prematurely on family dynamics. Presents alternative approach to such cases, based on questioning the "function of the symptom" notion, acknowledging parents' predicament, and…

Issues about the education of young children are discussed, including educational responsibility of preschools, the preschool curriculum, and the need for preschools. It is argued that preschool education should be part of public education but with its own curriculum, methods of evaluation, classroom techniques, and programs of teacher education.…

The role of schools in promoting social reproduction is the focus of unproductive debate among proponents and between adherents and others. This essay is concerned with how this body of theory may become a force for progressive, practical transformation. (MT)

The decline of America's schools risks the country's leadership in technology and production, economic well-being, military security, and social and civil order. The role that the educational system plays in this society is explored. (DF)

Youth gangs can be found throughout all racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Characteristics of gang membership and suggestions for parent and school involvement in preventing gangs are discussed. (DF)

Explores some of the explanations for drug use and abuse including environmental influences, models and the influence of family, society and peers, personal criteria, and drugs themselves. Discusses what schools have done and should do in each area. (JAC)

Argues that analyses of education which assume a direct relation between the system of production and school operation typically overlook the state's sponsorship of schooling. Describes how the struggle between democracy and capitalism within the state affects the educational system. Focuses on the influence of social movements on equality in…

A critical pedagogy provides a framework which allows teachers and students to think critically about the realities of their world. If educators take seriously the notion of critical literacy, they must challenge the assumptions of the dominant educational rationality which serves the status quo. (GC)

Problems in implementation and practice of a whole-school approach to integration which features transposing regular and special educators are cited, and seven phases for carrying out such a scheme are described. (CL)

Describes the policy of Toronto's public schools toward foreign students during the pre-World-War-One era as promoting their assimilation into the city's Protestant, British-Canadian cultural milieu. Considers the roles played by educators, Protestant missionaries, and society in general in the assimilative efforts, and the attempts of foreigners…

Surveyed 205 Nigerian parents to examine knowledge and acceptance of drug education programs. Results showed only 41 percent of the parents want drug education in the schools, and 83 percent thought parents should take primary responsibility. (JAC)

Explores the differences in how teachers ask students to learn from reading and the way in which adults and children learn from reading outside of school. (FL)

Refutes criticism of public schools, pointing out that schools have assumed too many responsibilities without having resources to do the job. As a beginning, urges an examination of the current role of public schools for the purpose of reassigning to other organizations some of the tasks now assigned to them. (EL)

Presents an overview of the problem of absenteeism, discusses the reasons for it, and offers procedures for promoting attendance. (FL)