A 2-day institute examined the relationship between two central policy alternatives facing large city school districts: Decentralization and integration. Titles and authors of the 11 major addresses presented at the institute are as follows: (1) "Urban Schools: Issues in Responsiveness and Control," by John H. Fischer; (2) "Children Apart: Crisis and Conflict," by June Shagaloff; (3) "The Law, Race, and School Districting," by E. Edmund Reutter, Jr.; (4) "The Urban Coalition: Its Implications for School Systems," by James A. Kelly; (5) "Educational Priorities and the Handicap of Local Financing," by James E. Allen, Jr.; (6) "The Case for School Integration," by Thomas Pettigrew; (7) "The Increased Role of Federal and State Governments in Civil Rights Issues Affecting Education," by Stephen K. Bailey; (8) "Metropolitanism and the Issues of Social Integration and Administrative Decentralization in Large Cities," by Robert J. Havighurst; (9) "Some Perspectives on the Politics and Organization of Education," by Adolf A. Berle; (10) "Efforts to Desegregate and Decentralize the Administration of a Large City School System," by James F. Redmond; and (11) "Some Views on the Relationship between Decentralization and Racial Integration in Large City School Systems," by James Farmer. (JH)