Presenting conclusions drawn from the testimony heard by the Social and Cultural Commission at the International Conference on Racial Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations (1977), this report emphasizes the importance of Native: cultural recognition and preservation; education; and family and community preservation. (JC)

There are certain threats to the Jew's ethnicity, and factors in his ecological setting motivate his anxiety. (DM)

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

Views the issue of school desegregation as not a question of know-how,'' but a question of will. (DM)

Sets forth ways of equalizing educational opportunity in public schools so as to avert two separate societies,'' and evaluates metropolitan approaches to the problem. (DM)

Community education is an educational philosophy, which holds that the school is responsible for all aspects of education. The promise of that philosophy lies in its potential for involving people in the identification and solution of their problems. (Author/JH)

The struggle to preserve their culture has turned Indians into educational activists pushing Congress for control of their own schools. (Author)

Examines the nature of the "sense of fate control" findings of the Coleman Report, and argues that these findings are irrelevant to the debate over community control. (DM)

The experience of Detroit with community control is less well known but is considered important. Here the central issue was formed and resolved with unusual clarity, the issue being whether community control is compatible with racial integration; the unequivocal answer in Detroit was "No." (DM)

From the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).

Describes an experiment using videotaped programing as an alternative to satellite communication for television broadcasting in an isolated Alaskan village. Discusses the impact of television generally and local control in particular on the community. (JMF)

Using three interpretations of community control, the attitudes of local elites in New York City were analyzed. Findings indicate substantial levels of support for some form of community control among both white and minority respondents. (Author/RLV)