Draws on the relevant social science literature as well as on research in Crystal City and in other south Texas cities, and delineates and examines the problems which confront and may militate against the formation and effectiveness of Chicano political organizations at the local level. (Author/AM)

The data for the years 1969-1972 clearly support the ethnic succession-decentralization hypothesis. The new ethnic groups in New York City, the blacks, and Hispanics are achieving greater success in penetrating the school bureaucracy in the decentralized than in the centralized districts. (Author)

Discusses the problems of providing a uniform educational system that would enable children of the rural Yukon to move into other Canadian school systems with minimal difficulty. States that northern communities increasingly desire more control over local education. Argues that schools must address both local and national issues to adequately…

Notes that either consciously or symbolically, most local Indian elites see and appraise government assistance and reform in terms of their own self interest. (Author)

Concludes that economic determinism may not sufficiently explain servitude and other institutions in Colonial America but that the efforts of legal, cultural, and intellectual historians may reveal more about the subordination of whites and blacks to their social betters. (Author/AM)

Discusses resource reallocation, community control, and tuition vouchers, and how each affects the role of the state, the community, and the family in the education process. (SP)

Questions whether the interests of children are served by the active intervention of collective bargaining in program development and the educational processes. (Author/JF)

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)

Identifies key ideas in the new plans for urban community control of schools that have already played a role in the controversies of the earlier era of progressive education. Suggests that those ideas, when combined with local and decentralized control of school organization, produce new dilemmas for professional educators in the present era.…

A community school in a total community education process is not and cannot be the same school with a few additional evening enrichment programs. What community educators seek is a new form of education. (Author)

After all the money spent, jobs allocated, new machinery and programs introduced, after all the publicity and conflict, and after all the bold rhetoric about the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District, New York City, the children of the district cannot read as well today as they did five years ago. (Author)

Author suggests drastic overhaul of the public school system to eliminate the various levels of repression to be found within it. (AN)

There are two basic reasons why the black educator finds it difficult, at best, to be an agent of change in the black school. First, he was trained by the very system he is expected to change, and secondly, he is a certified agent of that system. (Author)

An examination of the pros and cons of a public broadcasting service on a national level." (Editor/AK)