This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, cites a study done in 1965 of the junior high schools of Brooklyn in which it was demonstrated that this segment of the system could be desegregated without a great amount of dislocation. (Author/JM)

TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCHOOL SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTS MAY BE DISTINCT IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND CONFLICT PROPENSITY, THE VOTING RECORDS, SOCIOECONOMIC DATA, AND ASPECTS OF BOARD OF EDUCATION INTERACTION WITH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS OF FOUR SUBURBAN ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES WERE ANALYZED. A COMPARISON OF CONSTRAINTS AND SUPPORTS FOR THE…

A TYPOLOGY FOR A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO TEACHER-WORK RELATIONSHIPS REGARDS THE SCHOOL AS AN EMPLOYING SYSTEM WITH SETS OF CONTRASTING SYSTEM-WORKER RELATIONSHIPS--(1) FORMAL-PERSONAL OR TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY, (2) DISCRETIONARY-PERSONAL OR PERMISSIVE PERSONALISM, (3) FORMAL-GENERALIZED OR ORGANIZATIONAL FORMALISM, AND (4) DISCRETIONARY-GENERALIZED…

This resource guide was prepared to offer teachers and supervisors practical suggestions for the teaching of science to the pupils in the Career Guidance Program. The material presented parallels, as closely as possible, the regular science program for grade nine. However, many of the basic concepts and skills were drawn from the seventh year and…

This study of a court decision on public school desegregation notes the importance of the case, In re Skipwith, as a test of the relationship of the Fourteenth Amendment to school assignment to a defacto segregated school. The background of the controversy is presented. A summary of the case includes the parents' defense against charges by the…

Article is taken from an interview conducted by Gordon J. Klopf, Provost and Dean of Faculty of the Bank Street College of Education, on September 7, 1971. (MB)

The Materials in this bulletin indicate suggested teaching procedures needed to implement the teaching of "mathematics, 9th Year" as outlined in Curriculum Bulletin No. 3, 1958-59 series, Course of Study Mathematics 7-8-9. Whereas the course of study suggests the application of mathematical principles such as commutativity,…

This publication is a teacher's guide for teaching ninth grade science in New York City Public Schools. Activities for four areas -- physics, chemistry, earth science and biology -- are included. Five years of experimentation under classroom conditions preceded the publication of this guide which is specifically designed to meet the needs of…

This publication is a teacher's guide for teaching seventh grade science in New York City Schools. Activities for four areas -- physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology -- are included. This particular edition is a reprint of Science: Grade 7, Curriculum Bulletin Nos 9a--9d, 1962-1963 Series, which were originally produced in four separate…

The Chancellor of the New York City Board of Education discusses, in his testimony before a May 1974 public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights why the goal of integration in New York City, as in other inner city areas throughout the country, remained so elusive, noting that 66 percent of public school children in New York City…

This is the text of the law governing the New York City Community School District System. The law defines the relationship of the Board of Education of the City with the Community School Districts and the means by which the Community Districts are to be governed. The composition of the District School Boards and the election procedure for them are…

FIVE STUDIES ON INTEGRATION PROBLEMS WERE UNDERTAKEN AT THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RELATIONS STUDIES OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. ONE, BY ROSNER, STUDIED WHETHER A MAJORITY OF YOUTHS, WHEN PLACED IN SETTINGS IN WHICH THEY WERE THE MINORITY, ASSUMED CHARACTERISTICS WHICH WERE ROUGHLY DESCRIBED AS MINORITY BEHAVIOR. IN SPITE OF THE GENERAL CULTURAL VALUES…