This consultation was structured to provide a forum for participants to grapple with issues surrounding ethnic group identity, ethnic studies, intergroup conflict, and essential new roles for schools, colleges and community groups; and to chart new courses of action for New Jersey. The document includes a brief summary of the program. The morning sessions were devoted to an exploration of issues surrounding ethnicity in education. Following the keynote address, the participants divided into 12 groups for small round table discussions where immediate concerns and problems relating to the broad agenda of ethnic factors in education were addressed. A series of questions revolving around the key areas of (1) generating attitudes in teachers and school personnel conducive to fostering racial and ethnic group understanding; (2) outlining specific educational goals and designing methods to implement the new pluralism in the curriculum and in the school environment; and, (3) recognizing the legitimate demands of diverse ethnic groups while avoiding fragmentation, were raised and later answered by a multiethnic response panel. The afternoon session was devoted to programmatic workshops in which the participants defined the issues with even greater precision and proposed recommendations to meet many of the pressing needs. The recommendations which appear in the second part of this document were given as responses to the major questions posed in each workshop. (Author/AM)