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Papers cover curriculum, pupil assessment, teacher placement, and vocational education.

Studies Flint School teachers and students as to how Negro students are perceived by their peers, by their teachers, and by themselves.

Surveys employment, housing, education, city government, and community relations; proposes actions for improvement.

Describes a multi-faceted project to provide interracial school experiences to white and Negro pupils [and teachers] in three racially unbalanced schools in and about Detroit.

Contrasts recall processes and performance gains of lower-class Negro and middle-class white children during first and second grades.

Finds greatest differences between deprived, largely black, and advantaged, predominantly white children in a "midwestern suburb of 60,000" relate to speech pattern-analogs, grammar, vocabulary.

Compares failure, or non-promotion percentages for all schools with those for schools with 73% or more of non-white students -- ration is 6.4 to 11.87.

Covers period 1951-1959.

Surveys school population in preceding decade and makes projections for five-year period. Finds physical facilities in Campeau area increasingly inadequate. Criticizes policy of assigning Negro teachers.

"Examines role of human relation commissions, school systems, Negro leaders and community action programs in providing job training for the adult," using Detroit as an example. Book chapter in Employment, Race and Poverty.