Continued population growth can only lead to world problems if decisions regarding balance, production of food, handling of natural resources, and educational aims are not made immediately. (JB)

A selective review of attempts to investigate urban systems that includes a 66-item bibliography. (MLF)

Expresses the view that more and more black students become alienated and will transform as a class into a revolutionary nationalist intelligentsia for the movement toward independent nationhood. (DM)

The entire journal contains summaries of topics and papers delivered at the Annual Meeting of American Orthopsychiatry (48th, March 21-24, 1971, Washington, D.C.). Author, title, and session indexes are provided. (RD)

Interviews were conducted for this study in the summer of 1965, and the data were analyzed during the fall of 1965 and winter of 1966.

Teachers and parents need to regain some of their lost authority and help youth contribute to society, not just borrow from it. (Author)

In the 1920s and 1930s, educational administrators and physical educators saw athletics as a means of developing those character traits associated with efficient citizenship in a modern industrial society. High school varsity athletic competition has changed little since the early part of this century. (CJ)

Reexamines a model of successive stages of urban ethnic institutional development with particular reference to Los Angeles' Indian community. Calls attention to a new level of institutional development within the urban Indian community. Assesses the effect of national policy on local ethnic groups and the development of their institutions.…

Examines the contributions of the "Frankfurt School" members to the development of critical theories of social education in the United States. Drawing from their sociohistorical analyses, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Adorno theorized that the dominance of scientific, rational thought in the twentieth century was leading to highly technological,…

An investigation of official 1976 suicide statistics among minority elderly revealed that suicide rates are highest among the old for Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans. Among Blacks and Native Americans, however, suicide rates are extremely low for the aged. Suggests explanations for these findings. (Author)

The author examines the tenets, historical antecedents, and implications of the current art education theory of "planned eclecticism," which encourages relatively free curriculum content choices, subject only to the psychosocial context of the school. He questions the theory's dependence on sociological theories and scientific…

In the context of reflections on sociolinguistic research in Alsace, results are discussed of current studies which indicate the importance of the city/rural area distinction in use of French and Alsatian. The complexity of the actual linguistic situation in Alsace is described. (AMH)

This article offers ideas on developing cross-cultural classroom activities related to aging and the aged. The ideas are mostly in the form of questions. Questions include, "What is the dominant age group of the society?""How is this dominance felt by other age groups?" and "At what age do most people retire?" (DB)