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

Problems of urban high schools, including poor attendance, high dropout rates, low achievement, and poor social relationships, are linked together by a strong sense of alienation among students and teachers. Yet much of the educational research and policy treat these issues separately. In this study a conceptual framework for understanding student…

Impressionistic accounts of contemporary student behavior. (JH)

The author suggests that present student activism is due to a lack of counseling and a lack of responsiveness to the reality of children's needs. (MS)

The author interprets student dissent as a return to the Protestant ethic. Students talk of the collective experience, the common bonds of humanity, the need for communication. Much of this has the spirit of the original ethic. (Author)

Some of the popular myths about the structure and motivation of university student revolt are dispelled. (MF)

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

A University of Michigan study found student activists to be among the most intellectually involved and responsive students on campus. (Author)

Vignettes of contemporary high school students. (JH)

Revised version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Society, New York, N.Y., April 19, 1969. (RJ)

The research project was a panel, comparative and cross-sectional study of the attitudes of students toward other students, faculty members and administration of a small liberal arts college. Students from a large state university and a medium-sized Catholic university were used as comparison groups. The survey measured the student's definitions…

A survey of student opinion at the State University of New York at Buffalo showed that the students did not think that it was especially important for a university to prepare students for family responsibilities and relationships, to transmit society's current values and institutions, or to be a sanctuary. (Author/GB)