Problems with accountability systems are presented to demonstrate the author's view that accountability is essentially negative and can serve only to succeed in making schools more alienating for students and teachers than they currently are. (JMF)

Evaluated difference in level of alienation between Nigerian secondary school students who were drug users (N=97) or non-users (N=119). Results supported hypothesis that the alienated personality would be more susceptible to drug abuse than other personality types. Results suggest need for efforts to reduce student alienation. (Author/NB)

The author attempts a definition of the general concept of alienation and explores the relationship among alienation, adolescence, and the secondary school by reviewing studies of demographic, social/psychological, school climate, and learning variables in student alienation. (Author/SJL)

Special conditions of urban schools that operate as barriers to renewal and present difficulties for renewal efforts are explored. (JD)

Clarifies relationship of alienation to adolescence by describing alienated and at-risk adolescent. Discusses research on adolescent alienation as following two converging themes, the socio-psychological, and the sociological. Recommends humanizing adolescents' environments through intergenerational integration, their integration into responsible…

To break the cycle of alienation experienced by students and teachers in urban schools, we must accompany calls for order and high expectations with respect and relevance for students and professionalism for teachers. (Author/TE)

Examined correspondence between conceptual and empirical dimensions of student alienation. Responses from 2,056 secondary school students revealed basic correspondence between multidimensional conceptualization of alienation and empirical dimensions articulated by students. Such correspondence strengthens confidence in concept of multidimensional…

Explains some of the psychological issues surrounding a child's sense of belonging. Highlights consequences of alienation and discusses ways to foster a sense of belonging. Advocates that schools first ensure that teachers feel connected to the school--teachers can then help their students feel like they too belong. (RJM)

Answers and rebuts an article by Larry Johannessen (in the same issue of the journal) that offers ways for teachers to deal with and help alienated remedial students. Addresses the issues of administrative help, the effect of the interests and enthusiasm of the teacher, and the inner resources of teachers in despair. (PRA)

A poet's narrative describes the role of educators in turning an enthusiastic kindergarten student into an alienated elementary school student. (RH)

Discusses the incidence of crime (and other indicators of alienation) for school-aged, young Americans in terms of sociological variables. Draws on the tradition of research in culture and personality to interpret these failures of socialization in terms of certain widespread changes in patterns of child-rearing. (Author/JAC)

Discusses literature on student disengagement in school and efforts to improve student engagement in learning. Includes list of standards for engaged learning. (PKP)

Outlines the process by which students at Lawrence Central High School in Indiana improved academically through the teaming of two teachers in a particular subject area, and hence reducing teacher isolation. (JC)

The widespread practice of teaching by objectives which emerged as a result of the theoretical base provided by Bloom's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" is a misapplication of educational theory which can cause students to become indifferent to their learning. (Author/SB)

Analyzes the special vocabulary of teenagers, with an examination of the various themes running through teen "rat" talk. Suggests that the roots of adolescent alienation are not so deep as the existence of this vocabulary and other elements of their behavior suggest. (RL)