Toward improved urban education. Edited by Frank W. Lutz.

Foreword by M. R. Sheed.--Humanistic existentialism and the school administrator, by H. J. Hartley.--The structure of education in the urban school, by W. D. Wiley.--Desegregation, integration, and urban schools, by R. W. Heller.--Community control: a case in point, by S. P. Lisser.--Decentralization in urban school districts, by A. N. Baratta.--Federated urban school systems: compromising the centralization-decentralization issue, by R. O. Nystrand and L. L. Cunningham.--Teacher negotiations in metropolitan area schools, by F. W. Lutz.--The urban principal: man in transition, by S. Evans.--The school superintendent in the crucible of urban politics, by intendent in the crucible of urban politics, by J. M. Cronin.--A big city mayor tries his hand at school reform, by D. S. Seeley.--The politics of educational reform, by P. E. Peterson.--Norms governing urban-state politics of education, by L. Iannaccone.--Financing urban education, by W. I. Garms and J. A. Kelly.--City schools in a Federal vise, by J. W. Guthrie.--Urban education and the school of education, by R. J. Schaefer.--Selected bibliography (p. 334-336)