Urban Education

When conditions in a school deteriorate and teachers and administrators cannot escape or effectively protest, they use several ways of shifting blame.

Under today's conditions, the conventional pattern of school governance is no longer suitable. Political realities should be recognized and a school commissioner should be responsible to the mayor.

In New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985), the Supreme Court clarified and limited the student's Fourth Amendment rights against "unreasonable searches and seizures."

Magnet schools' "marketing" and recruitment takes several forms and has important side effects.

Research on school system decentralization is incomplete. Imposed models have been inappropriate, and important details have gone uninvestigated.

The concerns of Willard Waller, expressed 55 years ago, are still those of sociologists of education.