A review of the treatment of immigrants of the United States in history textbooks reveals a need for a more balanced, comprehensive and sympathetic view of all who came to this country. (Author/KM)

Reading materials are discussed which are intended to eliminate the cultural prejudice which persists because students and teachers do not recognize cultural values in another area of the world. Latin America is used as an example. (JB)

A teacher discusses the criteria and resources for a study unit on American indians. (GB)

Focuses on the Philadelphia Project," which aims to use the school as a way of improving racial, religious, cultural, and ethnic relationships in the community, and which is conducted at three levels of education--elementary, junior high, and senior high. (RJ)

Mutual and self perceptions of racial images of white, black, and Japanese Americans are studies among adult, college student, and school child age groups in California. The major hypothesis of this paper is that the amount of minority absorption of negative images is considerably less than twenty years ago. (Author/JB)

Article examines the theory between social class and the degree to which the potentialities of a language are utilized. (Author/ML)

Eight hundred and eighty-two grade 5 students were examined for differences in meaning of ten school-related concepts, using the semantic differential technique. It was concluded that high achievers do not necessarily perceive school-related concepts more positively than do middle and low achievers. (DM)

Study is an evaluation of aspects of the marginality theory," which attempted to comprehend the psychological traits noticed in groups of persons caught between two cultures, and who were, hence, marginal" to both. Data collected in an Australian aboriginal community only partly supports this theory. (RJ)

A librarian who went through the violent days of the student uprising of 1968 weighs the questions it posed librarians. (Editor)

Two measures of adjustment were administered to a sample of 450 working-class Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australian adolescents in years 9 and 11 of nine Melbourne high schools. Cultural conflict may be an influential factor in the adjustment of Italian-Australians, but not Greek-Australians. (Author/PN)

In this introductory article to a theme issue on multicultural education, the author argues for an across-the-curriculum multicultural policy based on fundamental liberal and humanistic values rather than on currently fashionable prescriptions which overemphasize race and racism or which fossilize the cultures of immigrant groups. (Editor/SJL)

Considers the fractionalization of the social science disciplines indicating that this clear delineation of intellectual territory is important to research, but that in information assimilation and dissemination an interdisciplinary approach is more appropriate. Recommends two approaches to interdisciplinary studies based around history and ethnic…