This paper discusses the social realities which characteristically confront the urban school, how the school presently adapts to the exigencies of an urban environment, and how the school program might be better fitted to this environment. The urban realities and the psychological pressures associated with these realities are classified as--(1)…

In this book, an overall analysis of the urban crisis is presented and concrete suggestions are made for renewing urban education through a unique design called the "public-schools-of-choice system." Fundamentally a plan in which a range of optional school programs would be offered to diverse student groups in every community, the public schools…

This book is designed to provide not so much a blueprint of specification as a framework that will enable communities to identify the kind of educational system that they believe is most relevant to their needs. The development of new communities, such as Fort Lincoln, Washington, D.C., provides an opportunity for a major new approach to the…