Barry M. Franklin's new work uses the concept of community as a lens for interpreting urban school reform since 1960. Focusing on the curriculum and employing case studies, he applies the concept to reform initiatives in a number of city school systems. Included are compensatory education, community control, mayoral takeovers, educational…

The issue of community control concerns the future role of parents in a changing school environment. It is vital that parental involvement be channeled toward positive and realistic goals such as defining the needs of children and determining how to meet these needs. To give parents access to decisionmakers, school boards should consider holding…

The merits of integration in the area of education are highly controversial. (DM)

Decentralization of school systems to allow local control of the educational process would be costly, although it would reduce many racial tensions. A less costly method of providing more satisfactory educational programs to low economic groups would be to aid them in evaluating their economic status. (CK)

Argues that compensatory education has failed because it concentrates on the student's failure to learn rather than the school's failure to instruct and provide experiences that make him ready to learn. (JM)

As part of the evaluation of project Follow Through, the Institute for Development of Human Resources of the University of Florida collected observational data in a sample of classrooms representing a number of experimental programs. Three waves of data have been collected: 70 classrooms each in the winters of 1969 and 1970, and 289 in the winter…

The first major controversy of New York City's new Community School District System has revolved around the allocation of funds available under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The uproar started when the Board of Education announced the allocations for the districts in the last moments before the 1970-71 year was to begin.…

This annotated bibliography encompasses selected citations in the journal literature published between 1968 and 1971. The listing is alphabetical by author or corporate author and comprises such issues as busing, inequality of education, textbook treatment of black Americans, "Jensenism," compensatory education programs, school finance, community…

After presenting an overview of metropolitan schools, described as not successful in providing an adequate education for economically disadvantaged students, the authors examine four critical issues: compensatory education, educational accountability, decentralization and community control, and desegregation. While compensatory education has not…

Contents of these hearings include the testimony of the following witnesses, as well as materials appended as pertinent to the hearings: (1) Dr. Francis Keppel, Chairman of the Board, General Learning Corp., New York, N.Y.; (2) Mr. Joel Berke, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., and Dr. Robert J. Goettel, Syracuse University Research…

This paper explores the relationship between low income parents and urban schools. Parent participation in urban schools today is said to have been institutionalized in forms set in motion by the Civil Rights movement. Three types of response to the failure of schools to respond to the 1954 Supreme Court decision calling for desegregation are…

This book, an outgrowth of a summer institute conducted by Fordham University at the Lincoln Center, New York City in 1969, comprises the following articles: Education 1980 (F.M. Hechinger); Compensatory Education (D. A. Wilkerson); Delinquents and Dropouts: Some Implications for Schools (W. C. Kvaraceus); New Methods of Teaching the Socially…