Reprinted from the booklet, An Even Chance, by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., with the cooperation of the Center for Law and Education, Harvard University, 1971. (VW)

Examines official Headstart and Office of Economic Opportunity policy on parent involvement, as well as opinion poll results from teachers and school district superintendents. (JM)

Analyzes why, as the process of decision-making has been centralized by school bureaucracies, and as professional educators have gained power, public education has become a closed social institution neither accountable nor responsible to the citizens it serves. (JM)

Testimony before Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate.

Equates the fight for busing, equal education, and school integration with the general struggle against racism. Briefly discusses the history of busing and school desegregation in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville, New York public schools. (Author/GC)

The "politcs of community control" is examined through an analysis of the integrationist, separatist, and Marxist models. (JLF)

Physical-economic models of neighborhood change, popularly used by neighborhood planners, are beginning to give way to more politically oriented models. Such models do not call for blind community control, but for facilitating the development of neighborhood political capacities. (Author/RLV)

The nature of villagers' involvement during community theater programs initiated and implemented by some Malawi nongovernmental organizations was analyzed. Findings indicate that, contrary to the purposes of community theater, the productions were planned and remotely controlled from outside the community. (Contains 22 references.) (JOW)

Only the federal government has the power and resources to address the housing crisis. National policy should extend resources to grassroots groups which will design housing programs and policies according to local conditions. Important issues are: (1) preserving existing subsidized housing; (2) providing capital; (3) constructing affordable…

Defines community empowerment (CE) at individual, organizational, and community levels; fits CE within a model of stress and health status; describes instruments to measure CE as used in the Detroit Area Survey. Presents guidelines for and barriers to a CE perspective in health education. (SK)

Examines Detroit's economic development policy-making culture and assesses its impact on the formation of the community development corporation (CDC) network that dominated Empowerment Zone (EZ) planning in the initial stages. Analyzes the importance of distrust between City Hall, business interests, and community residents in consolidating CDC…

This article focuses on the extent to which the legislative framework and education-funding models applicable to school education in South Africa post-1994 have, in attempting to address historical inequalities, resulted in a particular form of privatisation of public education. The article sets out the extent of the autonomy available to all…