This document is designed to assist schools and communities in: (1) exploring the subject of sex education; (2) developing an awareness of the student as a frame of reference for analyzing sex education and constructing appropriate educational programs; (3) developing an awareness of behavior and educational principles as a logical basis for…

Contents of this book include: (1) The Concept of Race-Black, Negro, Afro-American, Colored?; Social versus Biological Definitions of Race; and Confounding Race and Social Class; (2) Intelligence-Black-White Differences in IQ: age and sex differences, the genetic explanation, the environmental explanation, family correlates of IQ, and a personal…

The Center for Youth Development and Research called a conference on April 13, 1970 at the University of Minnesota to discuss the present treatment of juvenile offenders and future approaches to working with delinquents. The participants represented diverse backgrounds and included corrections personnel, juvenile court judges, former offenders,…

This report describes the pilot year operation of the Tucson Early Education Psychological Services (TEEPS) program, which is based on the position that the quality of psychological services in the public schools can be increased by establishing educational systems in which the functions of psychology in education are embodied in system components…

A description of an experimental, social agency program which helps parents cope with their children's behavior problems within the home. (BRT)

An investigation sought to identify student characteristics and behaviors as they related to work habits, classroom disturbances, and dependence on the teacher, in the foreign language classroom. It is suggested that such data are useful in planning teaching methods. (AM)

Seventy-five visually handicapped individuals, aged 9-22, were evaluated on the Child Behavior Checklist, School Behavior Checklist, Behavior Problem Checklist (BPC), and Revised BPC. Total scores from all four measures correlated well with each other; total scores and subfactors also correlated with such psychopathologic behaviors as aggression,…

Surveyed addictive behavior, finding 26% of male and 57% of female high school students scored above cutoff point on the Overeaters Anonymous scale for assessing compulsive overeating. At-risk students perceived their life quality and relationship with person closest to them as significantly less positive, indicated overeating's defensive…

School psychologists, administrators, teachers, and specialists in special education settings ranked the restrictiveness of 13 procedures (such as planned ignoring, response prevention, time-out) designed to decrease inappropriate behaviors. Although general agreement was indicated by the 118 respondents, variability was noteworthy, especially in…

Longitudinally examines the relationship between teacher-rated behaviors in kindergarten through grade three with police contact as a measure of delinquency and school misconduct throughout adolescence. Urban minority ("high risk") males and females participated. Consistent relationships between early classroom behavior and later…

Noting that raising well-behaved, considerate children requires learning how to balance firm discipline with equal doses of love and humor, this book provides parents with effective and realistic solutions to countless parenting challenges. The strategies are organized into the following categories: (1) "Avoid Power Struggles"; (2) "Minimize Daily…

In schools, the learning and optimal development of children with adaptive or behavioral problems may be seriously affected. In many schools, such problems are so prevalent that demand time and energy of the educators may dilute the educational experience of all children. This study examines the impact of the Primary Mental Health Project-- a…

In the present research we examined variations in the after-school experience of young adolescents as a function of family background characteristics and the extent to which after-school activities were associated with behavioral adjustment at school. After-school time use was assessed through telephone interviews with 438 young adolescents…

Improve school success for students who have learning disabilities and ADHD with "Academic Clubs," the proven learning-by-doing approach presented in this energizing guidebook. Sally Smith--the highly respected founder of the Lab Schools, where 95% of students with learning problems go on to college--shows elementary school educators how to…

This document discusses a program designed to decrease students' off-task behaviors in order to help create a positive learning environment. The targeted population consisted of elementary students from two midwestern communities. Children attended schools in both lower-middle class and upper-middle class schools. The problem of off-task behavior…