Examines the rationalizations used by educators to explain the failure of multicultural education and outlines mechanisms for change. (Author/MK)

In a previous article, James Fuerst discussed a Title I child-parent centers program in Chicago. Dorothy Kellberg here criticizes a number of Fuerst's assertions, mostly on the grounds that they lack documentation. The first author stands by his initial article, and points out some additional problems with the program. (GC)

The Child Parent Center is a pre-kindergarten program which accepts children at the age of three and keeps them for 5 years, through kindergarten and the first and second grades. (Author/AM)

Notes that behind its unique classroom activities--the foreign language courses and the dance lessons--the alternative school program of the Cincinnati School District is largely a network of unknowns. (Author/AM)

The program considered here is said to be one of the most comprehensive in the country. Only in its third year, it has 14 different types of alternative schools in 30 different locations. (Author/AM)

Concludes that while the computer may conceivably assist in desegregation planning, it cannot substitute for carefully considered educational and social policy. Criticisms of the computer plan center on the impoverished educational and social policy behind it. (Author/AM)

Discusses Cuba's successes in equalizing education among Black and White, male and female, rural and urban, and young and old Cubans. Discusses the biggest source of potential and actual inequality, the new elite high schools. (CMG)

This study of a Distributive Education Program in a predominantly black southern urban high school notes that the graduates of the vocational program enter jobs which ultimately may not be able to provide them with stable employment and job security and that these students would not pose much of a threat to their white classmates in competition…

Examines criticism of bilingual education programs and of the government role in such programs. Suggests that, despite negative public opinion, bilingual education provides many benefits, and that educators can utilize the bilingual experience to design programs that incorporate sound practices, provide for local financial support, and generate…