A narrative taken from an oral history project being conducted on the Lower East Side in New York City by the Preservation Youth Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. The narrator is a 76 year old former millinery worker who relates her life story in terms of the class struggle, unions, self-education, and the unique Yiddish…

A defense of the Open Admissions policy of the City University of New York, initiated in the Fall of 1970, against several of its critics. (JM)

Discusses the decisions made in the development of a pre-college program to provide special educational opportunities to talented youths who, because of limiting economic and social forces, would not normally enter college or earn degrees. (RJ)

Reviews the literature on the efforts of school-college collaboration to increase the number of minority group students who enter and graduate from college. Concludes that these relationships have been largely self-serving, benefiting school and college personnel much more than the targeted disadvantaged students. (FMW)

Evaluated an urban university-school collaborative that prepared teachers for urban schools, examining how significantly inequities between university and school personnel mitigated the attainment of intended outcomes. While some positive changed occurred (e.g., professors and teachers learning to speak the same language on instructional teams),…