This publication contains three articles that examine the changing role of the urban superintendent. The first presents highlights of interviews with Dr. Walter Amprey, superintendent of the Baltimore City Public Schools, and Dr. Donald Ingwerson, who served 12 years as the superintendent of the Jefferson County, Kentucky, Public Schools. Each…

This annotated bibliography provides references to representative materials on educational history in the St. Louis City and Suburban Areas (Missouri). The bibliography includes books, theses, dissertations, pamphlets, periodical articles, reports, and files. Each entry cites the author, the title, facts of publication, and location of entry, and…

This report presents the results of a field test conducted in the Atlanta Public School System during the 1972-73 school year. The test attempted to determine what effects the introduction into a school system of specially prepared information on the relative achievement levels of schools and grades serving students of similar economic levels…

If education for all American children and youth is of maximum importance, then we must recognize the great numbers who attend parochial schools--and the fact that their problems can be problems for us all. (Editor)

Outlines the difficulties the Soviet Union is having in bringing its rural schools on a par with the quality of education found in its urban schools. (RK)

Presents alternative school systems as opportunities for urban children to obtain a quality education, which will enable them to escape ghetto living conditions. (Author/RK)

The Education Commission of the States has found that urban school districts face enormous problems. This document looks at a variety of ideas about how to re-engineer the urban school district. These essays encourage educators and the public to think about the nation's urban school systems and how they might better meet the needs of children. The…

Based principally on data collected for a broader 11-city study of civic capacity in urban education, this report provides an account of the durability of judicially supervised consent decrees in the school reform arena and explains why judicial intervention may be sought and sustained in the 1990s, often in the absence of evidence that schools…

This is a descriptive study of the activities, statistics, and decisions made regarding the re-testing of six inner-city elementary schools, based on results of a norm-referenced achievement test given in the Cincinnati Public School district in April, 1985. Three statistical operations were performed on test data from the Design for School…

A response by Professor John Walton of Johns Hopkins University, Former President of the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore, to the article by Antero Pietila of the Baltimore Sun which was published in "Integrateducation" for November-December 1974. (Author/JM)

A reply by Antero Pietila of the Baltimore Sun to a response by Professor John Walton of Johns Hopkins University, former President of the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore, to his article which was published in "Integrateducation" for November-December, 1974. (Author/JM)

Part of the monthly Staurday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

This report describes and evaluates the Midwest Center/Satellite Consortium which was designed to initiate change in the pupil personnel services in urban schools. This consortium, through university and public school system cooperation, aimed to effect change within institutions while aiding pupil personnel workers to achieve a balance between…

One of a series on critical issues in vocational-technical education, this paper applies the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education recommendations concerning urban vocational education to a specific inner city school system, the Durham, North Carolina, Public School System, which is seen as a microcosm of our large urban systems. Issue…

Mergers of city school districts with surrounding ones lead to the dilemma of whether or not to bus children out of their neighborhoods. A review of recent desegregation litigation shows that courts still require the elimination of inequalities, but busing is not mandatory. Alternatives such as magnet schools are encouraged. (VM)