Reviews the intersection of social stratification and schools, i.e., how stratification "shows up" in education. Assesses the responsibility and role of the school in creating a balance between the two forces. (Author/RK)

Presents a history of the Swedish welfare state from 1932 to 1976 and discusses positive and negative aspects of the system. The conclusion is that future success of the system is dependent upon commitment by Swedish leaders to social change, material growth, and compensatory social services. Available from: P.O. Box 2450, Greenwich, Connecticut…

Suggests that in the recesses of the American collective conscience the vision of the original conception of happiness of mankind has not been lost. Yet, we still live on the brink of return to internecine racist and economic paradoxes which refuse to end even though they represent absurd burdens. (Author/AM)

Extends previous studies dealing with the socioeconomic subordination of Blacks. Thesis is that within the circle of discrimination there are cycles, within of which is a germinated seed that forms a subsequent cycle, and the process goes on and on; the pattern becomes self-generative. (Author/AM)

A comprehensive faculty development program is concerned not only with the faculty member as a person and as a professional but also as a member or a complex interdependent social system. (JD)

The second part to an article on the self-organization of change in individual development, this article describes the organization as developmental and self-organizing. Examines expectations about how social systems develop and offers a new framework. Describes change in group and organizational behavior with emphasis on student affairs.…

Notes that the cultural theme in each of the three books reviewed is the confrontation of immigrant cultures with American urban-industrial society, reconsidered in light of the new sensitivity to the history of non-elite groups, revised theories, and new quantitative methods. (Author/AM)

Suggests a taxonomy of the grass roots movement and gives a general descriptive over view of the 60 groups studied with respect to origin, constituency, size, funding, issues, and ideology. (Author/AM)

Much of what is mandated and touted as cures for school improvement are not research-based and in many instances, are doing more harm than any perceived good. This book examines all aspects of the present public school reform movement and explores how capitalism and the market system does not and cannot apply to public schools. Robert Brower…

This paper examines what it calls the "theoretically methodological starting points" of educational reform within the larger context of social change. It states that educational reforms can appear as a result of radical social changes, that educational reforms are the operationalization and institutionalization of social transformation.…

If counselors are going to perform functions different from dyadic therapeutic counseling, institutions preparing counselors must change the context and processes of their programs. The author describes the procedures he has used to equip counselors to utilize the basic principles of change with an organization as a target. (Author)

A model is presented for investigating the integration of student and faculty life cycles. It is addressed primarily to the different developmental needs of a healthy nature that inhere in both faculty and students as they engage in various stages of their respective life work. (Author)

Article describes the use of accountability schemes and their effect on the educational system. (RK)

Outlined are measures for improving the instructional methods and materials used in the training of leaders within the Communist Party. (JB)