The superintendent of the Dallas school district describes the action the court ordered the district to take to eliminate institutional racism and the progress that has been made in four years. (IRT)

In the Manhart case, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for women to be required to make higher payments into a retirement fund than do men to receive the same benefits. A district judge ruled elsewhere that a plan calling for equal payments but reduced monthly benefits for women is constitutional. (IRT)

Gives brief overviews of such programs as New Brunswick's Criterion-Referenced Testing Program, Alberta's Education North project to develop educational programs better attuned to the needs of students in isolated communities, and a study of how and why parents choose between public and independent schools. (IRT)

Guided Design, as created and used in the engineering school of West Virginia University, is a procedure in which the teacher models professional reasoning, and shows students how the subject matter they study can be used to make better decisions. (IRT)

Examines the effect of the judgments the school makes about a child on the child's self-concept. (IRT)

Presents an interview with W. Willard Wirtz, chairman of the College Entrance Examination Board panel investigating the decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. (IRT)

The president of the Educational Testing Service gives a history and an overview of the organization. (IRT)

Outlines the way decisions are made in the Carnegie Corporation, notes the flaws in this approach, and suggests ways to regulate such philanthropic foundations. (IRT)

Central High School has regained its reputation of being among the best schools in the nation. The factors contributing to that excellence are outlined. (Author/IRT)

Presents 13 social frontiers that create a map for cultural renewal. They embrace a matrix of goals for humankind that could and should rapidly supersede in policy and action the obsolete curricula, teaching-learning methods, and administrative rules that tend to suffocate much of established education. (Author/IRT)

The Dayton decision is the clearest and most direct statement made by the Supreme Court about the necessity for closely tailoring any desegregation remedy to the scope of the constitutional violation. (Author/IRT)

Describes the development and implementation of Pasadena's minimum essentials program in English. (IRT)

Reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the Boston magnet school program. The author concludes that integration in the 1980s will need to be metropolitan and voluntary. (Author/IRT)

Describes the Dallas district's involvement in desegregation, magnet schools, and the involvement of parents and business in the schools. These efforts should be seen as part of a larger effort at reform and renewal throughout the district. (Author/IRT)

Court-appointed committees that monitor desegregation plans are an emergent and potentially useful new form of citizen participation on education. The scope of several monitoring committees is outlined. (Author/IRT)