Since 1966, support of public schools has been damaged by widely accepted hypotheses built by Coleman, Jencks, and others on inadequate samples and faulty measurement. Describes the research of Herbert Walberg and his associates who are generating diametrically opposed hypotheses from new data. (Editor)

The people say they favor reduction in the property tax -- an inequitable and disastrously inflexible source of funds for schools in a period of inflation. Voters have recently turned down proposals that would have reduced reliance on the property tax in five States. Tells why. (Editor)

A response to criticism by researchers House, Rivers, and Stufflebeam published in the June Kappan. (Editors)

The people reveal fears about "crime in the schools" and offer opinions on treatment of "noninterested" and recalcitrant students, training for citizenship, sports participation by girls, teacher tenure, four proposed constitutional amendments, and on many other questions. (Editors)

Economist Lester Brown reveals the extent of the growing crisis and how it will affect people of the United States. (Editor)

In December 1973, the United Nations General Assembly created the UN University as an instrument through which the diverse and unconnected world community of scholars and scientists could function as an independent world body of intellectuals in the service of mankind. (Author)

Veteran principals are among the victims of "community control," Chicago style. Presents a chapter from the "Krug Report" published by the Chicago Tribune, with observations, inpressions, and educated insights based on many interviews, visits, and long-time contacts with schools. Attempts to help the public better understand some problems faced by…

A minute-by-minute account of one Friday in the work day of a principal who is a 40-year veteran of the Battle of Detroit. (EA)

An overwhelming majority of preschool studies show that on school entrance disadvantaged children with preschool experience are superior to disadvantaged children without preschool experience. However, this superiority diminishes and in most cases disappears over the primary grades. (Author)

The authors present some guides for understanding the controversy over teacher competence and developing teacher competency programs and policies. (Editors)

Bilingual education can be a great force in fostering educational change in America by providing a child with a full understanding of his cultural heritage and a deep respect for all it implies. Such a program treats the child whose mother tongue is other than English as advantaged, and involves the parent and the community in the fabric of the…

Describes Courses by Newspaper, developed by University Extension, University of California, San Diego. Courses are offered through newspapers across the country. Credit for the first course offered was given by 188 colleges and universities. (JF)

Hundreds of Kappan readers voiced approval of -- and doubts about -- Maurice Gibbons' proposal for new forms of transition to adulthood. (See related article, Kappan May 1974, p. 596.) (Editor)

An interview with Wayne C. Malone, principal of Pasco Comprehensive Senior High School, Dade City, Florida. The Pasco district recently elected to adopt the 45-15 day extended school-year plan. (JF)

Symbolic interaction is a useful perspective, a viable theoretical approach to getting at answers to many important questions related to educational technology. Participant observation is a useful methodology for rooting answers out of the research setting. (Author)