Eight definitions of integration were examined across sex, race, political preference, religious service attendance, and socioeconomic status for 449 graduating high school seniors. Generally, these students chose definitions of integration based on the idealistic principle of free association of people of different races and the open acceptance…

Educational policy, which did not really exist in the United States on a national level until the 1950s, might better be termed social-educational policy. Teachers are expected to be the agents of social change, achieving in the classroom such objectives as racial integration, general use of the national language, the memorization by students of…

The problem of physical disability is growing as modern technology rises due to a combination of increased injury rates and improved medical techniques, resulting in a rapidly growing number of surviving disabled persons. Despite the increasing incidence of disability, unnecessary physical barriers which exist throughout our society prevent…

In the summer of 1961 migrant children took part in an experimental education program held in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The unique factor in this program was the utilization of local school children as catalytic agents in the classrooms. The migrant children were given 2 four-week programs which ran concurrently with the general 8-week summer…

When categorized into one of two groups, subjects preferred information indicating ingroup similarity and outgroup dissimilarity. When categorized into a single group, subjects preferred maximum information about others regardless of content. No preference occurred when subjects were not categorized into a group. Thus, preferred information…

The author examines the assumptions and implications of the New Pluralism: the current movement to emphasize ethnic heritage and identity at the expense of assimilation. (SJL)

In 1953, William O. Stanley wrote the prominent social reconstructionist treatise, "Education and Social Integration." Fennell argues that Stanley was too optimistic, and states that democratic reconstruction will occur only if the very commitment that Stanley claims to exist is made a primary goal of political education. (Editor/RK)

Hawaiian-Japanese, Japanese, and Australian subjects were presented with a slide depicting either a Japanese or a Caucasian couple, and asked to describe three ways in which the two persons in the picture were similar. (Author)

Dimensions of black idenity, alienation, and contemporary attitudes of black students on the predominantly white campus are appraised. The implications of this are considered in relationship to the predisposition for hypertension in a significant percentage of black people. (Author)

Examines groups of individuals of differing income, education, occupation, age and sex and investigates the extent of differences between these groups on three levels: nationalism, support for the political system and satisfaction with aspects of every day living. Available from: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Transaction…

Conducted national, 9-year, multi-institutional study of academic persistence. Results from 10,326 college students support Tinto's model of the persistence-withdrawal process and suggests that most important determinants of persistence are students' academic and social integration at the institution. (Author/NB)

This critical analysis of least restrictive environment (LRE) for the developmentally disabled reviews the origins and operationalization of LRE in terms of a continuum of residential, educational, and vocational services. Pitfalls in LRE, especially for severely disabled persons, are enumerated and commitment to the contrasting principle of…

The American Council on Education and the Education Commission of the States have released a report, "One Third of a Nation," proposing that America is losing ground in achieving full minority participation in the country's life and prosperity. Specific recommendations are made for college and university action. (MSE)

Describes the Queensborough Community College (NY) Port of Entry program, which provides Chinese immigrants with intensified language development, American culture, lifestyles, and higher education orientation. Considers the program's objectives, history, changes since its inception, and problems encountered. (PS)

Examined contributions of objective integration, subjective integration, and total leisure activity to life satisfaction of adults aged 40 and 89 years. Telephone interviews with 400 adults revealed that objective integration contributed significantly to life satisfaction only for older males, but subjective integration and total leisure activity…