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Testimony was presented at these hearings by the following witnesses: Ronald Edmonds, assistant superintendent, School and Community Affairs, Michigan Department of Education; Dr. Daniel H. Kruger, professor, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University; Robert McKerr, associate superintendent, Business and Finance, Michigan Department of Education; Mrs. Jane Tate, member at large, Michigan Association of Parents and Teachers; Dr. Philip Kearney, associate superintendent, Research and School Administration, Michigan Department of Education; Dr. Lawrence F. Read, superintendent, Jackson City Public Schools, Jackson, Michigan; and, John Ort, president, Michigan Education Association, accompanied by Herman Coleman, assoicate executive secretary for Minority Affairs. (JM)

Contents of these hearings include: "The socioeconomic indicators of Michigan--implications for education"; "Accountability in education"; "A position statement on educational accountability for improved instructional services at the elementary and secondary levels in Michigan"; "Select Detroit Title I and Section 3 schools, per pupil expenditures (elementary) 1969-70", "Characteristics of the white and the Negro Population in the Detroit Metropolitan Area," by Irvin J. Rubin; "Financial Status, Detroit Public Schools, January 19, 1971"; Minority group activities at Chrysler Corporation, Urban Affairs Office"; "Community control vs. school integration--the case of Detroit, by William R. Grant"; "U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, Civil Action No. 35257: ruling on issue of segregation, and findings of fact and conclusions of law"; "Human Resources Center, Pontiac, Mich."; "Community school and adult services"; "Results from the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, Jefferson Junior High, Pontiac, Mich."; and, "Jefferson Junior High School Reading Scores, 1971." (JM)

In these hearings, the following witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Edward B. Fort, superintendent, Inkster Public Schools; Dr. Norman Drachler, former school superintendent, Detroit; Raymond Sreboth, superintendent, Benton Harbor Area Schools; Richard Ziehmer, superintendent, Covert Public Schools; Edward C. McKinney, superintendent, Baldwin Public Schools; William B. Krieger, superintendent, Mackinac Island School District; Dr. Dana Whitmer, superintendent, Pontiac Public Schools; John K. Irwin, president, Pontiac School Board; Mrs. Robert C. Anderson, president, PTA Council, Pontiac, Michigan; Elbert Hatchett, president, Pontiac Chapter, N.A.A.C.P.; Mrs. Irene McCabe, chairman, National Action Group, Pontiac, Mich.; Mrs. Judith Hussey, bus supervisor, Pontiac City School System; Mrs. Carole Sweeney, mother, Pontiac; Mrs. Marie Johnson, chairman, Pontiac Neighborhood Education Center; Mrs. Jo Ann Walker, reading teacher, Pontiac City School System; and, Mrs. Patricia Johnson, teacher, Pontiac City School System. (JM)

The record of the hearings includes the testimony of the many witnesses, among whom were Michigan educators, administrators, and food specialists. In addition, material submitted by the witnesses and relevant newspaper articles citations are included in the appendixes. (JW)

Testimony concerning the Summer Feeding Program was heard during the June 25, 1971 hearing from R. S. Gribbs, mayor of Detroit, Mich.; K. Gibson, mayor of Newark, N. J. and, Arnold Robles and Edward Koplan, program administrators of Los Angeles County, Calif., and City of San Antonio, Texas. Testimony concerning the withholding of funds for section 32 was heard during the July 22, 1971 hearing from Rev. W. Cunningham and E. Josaitis, director and program coordinator, Focus: HOPE--Detroit; D. Jones, mayor's Committee for Human Resources, Detroit; Senator W. Magnuson, U.S. Senator from Washington; and P. Olsson, deputy assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Among the appendixed submissions to the committee by witnesses was a comprehensive report on the 1968 HOPE Food and Drug Survey involving the comparison study of grocery and drug prices and services. ["The case for iron supplements in infant feeding regimens," by Lloyd A. Filer, Jr., has been deleted from the material presented in Appendix 2, due to its marginal legibility in the original document.]

This book which has been appended as part of the Equal Educational Opportunity hearings of the Senate Select Committee primarily focuses on the thesis that schooling provided to an individual and his subsequent educational achievement and post-school performance are determined to a substantial degree by his social and economic circumstances. The State of Michigan was selected as the location for the study. Chapters deal with: (1) a discussion of the concept of socioeconomic status (SES), and the characteristics of the samples of schools, students, and school districts used; (2) a review of the scholarly literature on social status and school services; (3) a presentation of an analysis of the ability of school services to affect student performance; (4) an analysis of research which relates post-school performance to such topics as individual lifetime earnings, occupational choice, social mobility, political participation, and social deviance; (5) a description of the governmental arrangements and economic conditions in Michigan which determine the quality of education available to a student; and, (6) a discussion of the concept of "capital embodiment," a description of discrepancies in embodiment between high and low social class children at the time they first enter school, and a discussion of alternative strategies for delivering and financing school services. Appended are information State school finance arrangements, technical notes on data analysis, descriptions of variables, and information on SES and informal educational opportunity. (RJ)