This topical paper, which summarizes a survey of the development and implementation of Black Studies in the 2-year college, follows two other topical papers: Number 12, The Position Papers of Black Student Activists (ED 042 453); and Number 16, The President's Reaction to Black Student Activism (ED 046 390). The types of colleges that offer Black…

The author sketches out an argument for the institutionalization of a new role within the public school system, namely, that of school sociologist. Such a person would address himself to the problems which schools face in regard to various groups or communities which they must deal with both within and without the school's walls. Three major areas…

Describes a schema for social factors that the author developed for use in environmental impact reports issued by the Community Planning Division of the San Diego County Planning Department. These reports have the potential of facilitating an examination of the needs of population subgroups. (HMV)

An activity, suitable for eighth grade, has students investigate a mythical city's development. Maps depict the city's transition from rural village to town to complex urban center. (LP)

Analyzes factors which have contributed to the poor conditions of large cities: failure of courage to deal with racism; individualism; short-term thinking; political nonaccountability; diversity of peoples and information; loss of faith in leaders and in nation; and threat of nuclear war. Calls for new policy initiatives and outlines an urban…

Reports on an attempt to relate academic models of urban communities to actual housing and community development for a student population of mixed graduate/advanced undergraduate levels and anthropology/urban studies majors. (CJM)

Describes METROPROB, a noncompetitive teaching game based on the theory of metropolitan locality-relevant problems and stressing their interactions. Discusses potential for teaching systemic analysis of urban problems and helping students think sociologically. (Author/CK)

A City Building Education System uses the process of city planning to teach basic reading, writing, and math skills to children from kindergarten through junior high school and to stimulate creative thinking and problem solving abilities. (JMF)

Describes cities as sovereign territorial systems engaging in political struggles with other sovereignties such as states, dominating their physical environment, and exercising jurisdiction over people and institutions within their boundaries. Calls for a more comprehensive history of the city and its residents. (CJS)

For 27 years the Florida Atlantic University Florida International University Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems has made major contributions to issues associated with rapid urbanization in southern Florida. Maintaining political support, both in the community and within the two universities, has been crucial to sustaining…

This project measured the impact of a short series of Family Math programs in elementary grades on student and parent attitudes toward mathematics, student performance in mathematics, and teacher behavior using control (1993, n=89; 1994, n=234) and experimental (1993, n=101; 1994, n=211) student comparison groups and supplemented by parent and…

An evaluation was made of 2 psychologically-based and 2 sociologically-based treatment programs serving lower class, persistantly-offending delinquent boys. The psychological consisted of casework with the youths and their families; the sociological, which was significantly more effective, offered educational development and job placement.…

This report describes a project designed to develop geography based activities that could be used to supplement an ongoing social studies program. The purpose was to help secondary social studies teachers in the Memphis, Tennessee area develop geography based activities dealing with concepts of urban spatiality. The project staff organized and…

The strength of communities is defined by the ways in which people help each other, and provide information, emotional support or other resources to those who have problems or who want to change or improve their lives in some way. The Helping Network Study focuses on the the quality of community, on the parts of helping systems that people use…