Showing papers by "Robert J. Havighurst published in 1974"

Youth in Crisis

Abstract: Writing in May 1974, I am shocked by the fact that so little attention has been paid to the report of the youth panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee during the six months since the report was published. We are caught in a crisis that will worsen the social health of the next generation of adults in our society unless some of the remedies proposed by the Coleman youth panel are applied very soon. The experience of young people aged 14-24 is both like and unlike the emergency that confronted the same age group just forty years ago. In 1934, the country suddenly discovered that a quarter of a million young people, mostly teenage boys, had left their families and taken to the highways in search of a bare living. With their families suffering from poverty and their fathers unemployed, they could not find work at home, and they set out in hope of finding something better or at least of freeing their families from the burden of feeding them. The Roosevelt administration and the Congress responded quickly, with a Civilian Conservation Corps to provide useful employment and some education to these young men. The National Youth Administration was established to provide government-paid employment and scholarship aid to other young men and women.

Cultural Pluralism and Education

Abstract: Cultural Pluralism has become the 'in' concept for educators who are interested in the relations between racial and ethnic groups in America. It is remarkably popular among diverse groups in our society, and among groups who are hostile or at least suspicious of one another. A number of minority groups see cultural pluralism as an umbrella under which they can preserve their identity and protect their life styles. Some leaders of the white and Anglo majority see cultural pluralism as a means of insulation of certain minority groups, for which they are willing to offer certain material payments.