ERIC abstracts on urban crises and educational administration are compiled that were announced in RIE through November 1969. The key terms used to compile this collection are "city problems,""slum schools,""urban education,""urban schools," and "urbanization." The following information is presented for each document: Author, title, place of…

Examines the assertions that quality in education is as much an issue as equality of educational opportunity; that the goal of learning in a just society is to achieve excellence in moral and cognitive skills; and that an evolving political theory base in curriculum may cause a reorientation of educational policy and practice in light of justice.…

An extended case analysis of a 1973 single land sale in the Yoruba city of Ibadan illustrates the role of Yoruba cultural patterns in Nigerian capitalist growth. This analysis also provides insight into the nature of the social relationships being established in the urbanization of Ibadan. (EB)

Reviews the work of American urban historians, noting that historians lagged far behind other disciplines in discovering the significance of industrialization and suburbanization on the American character. Contains an extensive bibliography of the literature in this field. (JDH)

The people and places of the Old West (Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado) are found within the pages of four books published between 1994 and 2000. A whole host of settlers, doctors, dentists, butchers, bakers, barbers, and boot makers traveled west during the 1800s to turn an open prairie into a promised land. Short sketches of groups of people…

Article considered the major impact of the development of grammar school education in the Western State of Nigeria: specifically, the acceptance of the literary tradition of Christian Missions, the new values that accompanied such change, and the gradual decline of enthusiasm for agricultural pursuits and other forms of manual labor. (Author/RK)

Although place names, national capitals, and physical environment are important aspects of geography, a well-rounded geography curriculum includes other themes, such as the regional approach, locational and perceptual considerations, population and food balances, urbanization trends, economic development, man-nature relationships, and political…

Examines the process by which real estate developers construct rural images of urban places, exploit anti-urban, pro-rural, and pro-community sentiments, and commodify and appropriate the established meanings of places. Uses Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as a case study. Contains 47 references. (SV)

Purpose: There is some speculation about geographic differences in physical activity (PA) levels. We examined the prevalence of physical inactivity (PIA) and whether US citizens met the recommended levels of PA across the United States. In addition, the association between PIA/PA and degree of urbanization in the 4 main US regions (Northeast,…

In the mid-1950s, the City of Cape Town was part of a wider area demarcated as a Coloured Labour Preference Area. The free movement of African people into the city was strictly controlled and the residential areas were segregated along racial lines. In terms of Apartheid's grand design, an area designated Mitchell's Plain was demarcated for…

A review of five recent books indicates that the migration of labor remains, on balance, a dynamic force for human betterment and economic prosperity. (Author)

Problems raised by urbanization are many. Those whose solution can be assisted through adult education are in economics; health, nutrition, and family planning; citizenship training; recreation; and education and culture. (AG)

Library service programs during the 1960s were mainly supported by federal funds. Since 1969 the costs of these programs seem to have been absorbed into regular library budgets. (PF)

Address given on the 50th Anniversary of the Boston University School of Education, May 4, 1968.