This report summarizes research findings concerning three types of conflict common in schools: structural conflict, group conflict, and cognitive conflict. Structural conflict arises out of the organizational structure. Corwin found that as schools become more complex, authority problems and teacher administrator conflicts rise. He also found that…

Many patterns of racial and ethnic group relations in our schools are based on how members of a given group have been included or excluded in U.S. society. Understanding such patterns requires consideration of slavery, the discrimination faced by Southern European immigrants, the conquests of American Indians and Mexicans, the relocations of…