In this essay, the authors question the undisputed assumption underlying both sides of the IQ controversy in the United States: that IQ is of basic importance to economic success. Instead, social class background is the key factor. (DM)

Two of the major challenges facing urban schools today are: (1) how they can offer productive educational programs for an ever-changing student population, and (2) their ability to broaden the base of community participation in the operation of schools. (DM)

Article suggests that to really end segregation in the schools, students must also be exposed to the end of economic and class segregation. (ML)

Lifelong education can be the primary agent of change in the educational system, such change being necessary to prepare humans to cope with the demands upon them in today's world. (Author/JB)

Analysis of the attitudes and behavior of graduates of Catholic Colleges seven years after graduation indicated that the experience of attending a Catholic college caused no economic, educational, or intellectual handicaps for the alumni on measures of religious behavior and on measures of political and social liberalism." (Author)

List of possible programs for improving facilities, staff, general administration, and curriculum in Catholic schools. (Author)

Author comments briefly on articles on compensatory education which appeared in the January 1972 issue. (SP)

Author gives arguments in favor of replacing the junior high school with a completely new way of educating youngsters between the primary and high school years." (Author/SP)

Cigarette smoking was found tobe significantly related to social status for females, but not for males. Smoking was closely related to peer group membership, and peer group memberships related closely to each individual's position in the social status system. A feeling of failure to achieve appeared to be related to tendency for ninth graders to…

Urban politics is shifting from the politics of ethnics to the politics of dispersed inequalities, a pattern which has caused an extreme shift in the base of political support. The power of the educational occupation as a source of patronage and a base of political influence has increased. (DM)

Educators are concerned with the ecology of students," that is, they are concerned with understanding the nature of the interaction between a developing human being and his physical, social and emotional environment. Using Erikson and Maslow frameworks, the ecological system represented by the elementary school classroom is examined. (Author/CG)

In reviewing some of the background information regarding the extent of drug abuse and the types of measures presently being used, this article describes in more detail the role of the school in drug abuse. Emphasis is placed on drug education from the viewpoint of youth. (Author)