Reports an in-depth participant observation of a rural American commune located in a canyon in Northwestern United States in the summer of 1971, focusing on the internal dynamics of the commune; values and beliefs are viewed as the primary focus of integration in addition to common definitions, solidarity, and other factors. (JM)

Using an index measuring both formal and informal social contacts with native urban residents, the integration process of rural migrants was plotted over time through a cross-sectional analysis of 688 residences for a sample from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (Author/KM)

This transcript of a National Public Radio broadcast discusses the impact of Title IX on elementary and secondary physical education. Topics covered include competition, difficulties involved in the sex integration of sports, statements on Title IX by five chief state school officers, the experience of Massachusetts in implementing Title IX, and…

A Portugese population arrived in two American cities in New England. In one, they were able to achieve a pattern of upward mobility, while in the other, they were locked into a more subordinate, far less open socio economic position. An historical explanation is offered which demonstrates the importance of historical variability as a critical…

America's social order represents a history of conflict between the forces of unity and pluralism. The prevailing ideology of the evolving multi-group society has been assimilation or integration with the eventual loss of separate identity for component minority groups. Since the 1960s, however, separatism and individualism have become the most…

This report, prepared by the UNICEF Office in Kabul, Afghanistan, is on the status of women in Afghanistan and on the problems and issues affecting their integration in the national development process. The report provides a general overview of the relationship between developmental programs for women, improvement of women's status and the…

Utilizing data from several studies done at Texas A&M University during the last 12 years, this paper develops a systematic interpretation of the idea of "minority-group orientation" and tests the adequacy of these concepts as an aid to understanding potential diversity among rural Mexican American youth with regard to intergroup fusion. The paper…

The 9th session of the Ad Hoc Conference on the Education of Migrants had 3 themes. Theme I was "measures to improve the position of immigrants and their families, primarily in respect of their educational circumstances, at the time of arrival in the host country." The second theme was "measures to secure satisfactory educational…

This document contains parts seven and eight of a report of projects undertaken through the Hilroy Fellowship Program in Canada in 1971-72. The stated aim of the program is to encourage and reward classroom teachers who are developing new ideas for the improvement of teaching practices. The project reported in part seven concerns industrial arts,…

The social implications of the changes in agricultural structures in rural America (i.e., the family farm structure in which labor, capital, and management are provided by the family; the corporate-integratee structure in which the capital is obtained through a formal contract with an agribusiness organization and the integratee furnishes the…

A conference for educators on the subject of school desegregation was sponsored by the University of California, Riverside, in the spring of 1969. Concerned school superintendents, authorities in behavioral science research, government officials, political leaders, and school board members discussed the rationale for attempting to solve racial…

Integrated education as it exists in many communities is actually harmful to black children and works to devastate rather than develop black talent; proponents of school integration must put effort into improving the quality of all schools. (JD)

The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) presents a position statement on curriculum guidelines for multiethnic education. A rationale for ethnic pluralism presents goals for school reform; curriculum guidelines describe ideal characteristics of school environments reflecting ethnic pluralism; and a checklist allows assessment of…

Since the Chinese proletarian cultural revolution in 1966, rural and urban schools have combined classroom study with productive labor. Students at all grade levels participate in the new system, which is designed to reduce differences between town and country, worker and peasant, and mental and manual labor. (Author/AV)

Seven critical pressures or influences have modified general education since 1946: (1) three waves of G.I. Bill holders; (2) racial and ethnic integration; (3) television; (4) student protest; (5) demands of the job market; (6) overlap of the secondary school curriculum with that of freshman and sophomore years of college; and (7) changing student…