Reports results of answers given by pupils in one school (grades 1-6) to the question "What's a school for?" (WY)

Condensed from "The Center Magazine, Volume 2 (January 1969), 75.

THIS PAPER SUGGESTS THAT TODAY'S COLLEGE GRADUATES AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS CAN FIGHT RACIAL AND SOCIAL INJUSTICES WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AND SPHERE OF INFLUENCE. ASPECTS OF THE GENERATION GAP AND WAYS IN WHICH TODAY'S COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPRESS NONCONFORMITY AND DISSENT ARE ALSO DISCUSSED. STUDENTS ARE PRAISED FOR THEIR CONCERN ABOUT SOCIAL AND…

Article describes how counseling helped a former Peace Corpsman who had taught in the Ivory Coast adjust to an American, middle-class, suburban school. (RW)

Using Inglehart's construct of materialism/postmaterialism, between 1975 and 1978 data were collected from Ball State (Indiana) University students regarding their value priorities. The majority of students were found to have mixed values, but the trend was toward materialism. (GC)

Black student from middle class family recounts his experiences before and after attending a community high school. (RJ)

Explains why the young have to give their parents new yardsticks by which the latter can measure their childrens maturity and come to understand their moral concerns and convictions. (RJ)

This comparison of values held by junior college freshmen and faculty is part of a larger study being conducted by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges to develop guidelines for institutional assessment and/or program development. Part I of this monograph discusses the generation gap as it applies particularly to values and goals of American…

Selected perceptions of college educational psychology students toward middle class values evident during their secondary education experience, called by Charnovsky the "middle class aura", are presented, along with their own attitudes toward those values. (MJB)