Argues that equalizing opportunity alone will not bring about equality with respect to the way our society distributes its resources: changing individuals in some fashion without altering social structural relationships will effect a relatively small change in the present unequal distribution of goods and services. (Author/JM)

This article is one of a series of commentaries and special features on educational development that will be presented in American Education over the next several months in connection with the observance of the American Revolution Bicentennial. (Editor/RK)

Views of advocates of busing to achieve racial desegregation in public schools are presented, including those of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Joint Washington Office for Social Concern. (SF)

A maximum of local control, with state planning, coordination, and financial support for community colleges, and a single Department of Education for all public education are features of the Florida pattern of coordination. (Editor)

This bold experiment should serve as an inspiration to commuter colleges across the country. (Editor)

The idea of utilizing vouchers in the U.S. educational system has been suggested by a number of scholars. Most discussions regarding vouchers have addressed questions at the elementary and secondary educational levels. In this paper the New York State Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP) is examined as a voucher system for higher education. TAP's impact…

This statewide plan for higher education is based on the concepts of a rolling five-year plan, wherein planning occurs constantly five years into the future, concurrent with more immediate ongoing programs and budgeting. It is a formal, statewide planning process. The broad aim of postsecondary education in Colorado is stated: to promote and…

A developmental project currently sponsored by the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) with federal support is described briefly. Five universities are involved in the design and development of instructional programs directed toward five target groups of actual or potential leaders in the education system. The training…

Two civil libertarians, who take opposing positions on the civil liberties aspects of preferential treatment, contributed first statements of their positions-- entitled, respectively, "Eliminating Racial Inequality in a Racist World" and "Honorable Ends, Unsavory Means"; also includes brief rebuttals of each other's positions. (JM)

Testimony before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974 by the project director of a projected in-depth review of the delivery of educational services to over 700,000 minority children attending the New York City Public School system asserted to be the largest civil rights review of its kind in U.S. history.…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, emphasizes not only that the first problem that the Puerto Rican community has in New York City is that of language but that there is a new migration of Haitians (who speak French), Greeks, and groups of Chinese from different parts of Asia.…

Describes a school-based program that attempts to intervene in the failure syndrome of pregnant adolescents, which is reflected in the areas of education, health, self concept, and parenting. (PB)

Argues that, in spite of the well publicized women's rights movement, and the growing consciousness of many persons, it is stated, most women still live out their lives in "quiet desperation": they are still excluded from the higher levels of "earning and learning", and they are still dissuaded from participating in the adult world. (Author/JM)