The author, who is Chairman of Elementary Social Studies Methods at Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York, points out that the CUNY policy of open admissions reflects a switch from elitism based on high academic achievement in high school of largely white middle class youth, to egalitarianism. (Author/JM)

To help public schools experience free-market competition, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander and President Bush propose parental choice among private, parochial, and public schools, supported by public financing for program design and tuition grants. Sidebars highlight church/state separation concerns and school choice experiments in…

This report reviews the major problems facing New York community colleges and presents the recommendations of a Committee of the State University of New York Board of Trustees. The nature and range of problems were clustered in three areas: provision of adequate funding and opportunities for optimum resource utilization; clarification of the roles…