This study evaluates the effects of school desegregation by court-ordered busing on the subsequent dropout rate of minority and majority students. (MM)

Mexican-American women studying in a vocational school in New Mexico were studied in order to investigate: (1) the relationship between attained proficiency in English and attitudes toward self and toward the native and target language groups; and (2) reasons for learning English and coming to the United States. (CFM)

This article looks at the kinds of activities school advisory committees can and have engaged in, the type of support they need in order to become effective, and some ways of evaluating their effectiveness. (MB)

Marco DeFunis' plight to be admitted to the University of Washington's Law School raises the question: Does one group's gain have to be another group's loss? (Author/JP)

Notes that the affirmative action effort has taken longer than five years to empirically reduce sex and racial discriminatory practices in higher education, the enforcement effort has been slow, and higher education has stopped growing. (Author/JP)

Comments on Keller's response and notes that concern about discrimination is not the issue, but the recent development and informal acceptance of benign quotas and preference as a form of discrimination that is justified in the name of eliminating discrimination. (Author/AM)

Attempts to present a graphic representation of actual and potential patterns of relationship among the many cultures which comprise the total American society. Argues that typical existing relationships are unhealthy and spawn lack of respect for other cultures and the seeds for disruptive conflict. (Author/AM)

Notes that while the street boy strategy does not emerge fully developed, the boys are deliberately trying to forge a new and hybrid identity for themselves, accepting those aspects of each culture that will serve to meet their needs as they see them, and rejecting those aspects of each that will not. (Author/AM)

An overview of the status and goals of bilingual education in terms of the FLES experience. It is suggested that bilingual education will be successful if it is properly documented in terms of program achievement. A central agency is needed to interpret and disseminate data collected at the local level. (AMH)

Reviews the literature pertaining to creative methods currently being employed by the nation's community colleges to recruit non-traditional students. A bibliography is included. (DC)

Six historical works which address important educational problems of Mexican Americans are cited in this brief review article. (JP)

This paper suggests that the major problems facing social work are not those related to public misunderstanding or structural position within the "welfare system," but to the profession's acquiescent posture in the "ill-fare nonsystem." The scant attention paid to minority issues in the papers is challenged. (Author)

Discusses the challenges concerning the urban superintendency today--the spectre of collective negotiations, school desegregation, teacher attitudes and competition within the ethnic-minority groups. A concerted effort involving the superintendent, staff and community is suggested for designs guaranteed to move toward equality of educational…

The purpose of this investigation was to examine if and how minority status and sex are related to the rate of referral for psychological services, the types of presenting problems, and the nature of subsequent psychological services. (Author)

To address the issue of at-risk students, school systems must reexamine the value structure of schools and determine whether it is still valid. Curriculum developers need to be aware of socioeconomic class variables and develop school environments with a balanced perspective that enhance achievement for all students. (MD)