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Spring 1968 Issue »
Alternative Public School Systems
Kenneth B. Clark
The author asserts that American public education suffers from "pervasive and persistent" inefficiency, particularly in the schools provided for Negro and other underprivileged children. After discussing the obstacles to "effective, nonracially constrained" education, the author proposes a strategy for providing excellent education in ghetto schools in conjunction with efforts to bring about effective school desegregation. Because the present patterns of public school organization are themselves a principal factor in inhibiting efforts to improve the quality of education, it will be necessary, he contends, to find "realistic, aggressive, and viable competitors" to the present public schools. The paper concludes with a discussion of alternatives to existing urban public school systems, including such possibilities as industrial demonstration schools and schools operated by the Department of Defense.
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Spring 1968 Issue
Abstracts
Preface
Harold Howe II
The Concept of Equality of Educational Opportunity
James Coleman
Sources of Resistance to the Coleman Report
Daniel P. Moynihan
Research Issues
School Factors and Equal Educational Opportunity
Henry S. Dyer
Academic Motivation and Equal Educational Opportunity
Irwin Katz
Race and Equal Educational Opportunity
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Social Class and Equal Educational Opportunity
Alan B. Wilson
Policy Issues
Towards Equality of Educational Opportunity?
Samuel Bowles
Alternative Public School Systems
Kenneth B. Clark
Policy for the Public Schools
Compensation and Integration
David K. Cohen
Discussion
Implementing Equal Educational Opportunity
Report Analysis
Theodore R. Sizer
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