The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of behavior contracting on grades attained by disadvantaged junior high school students. (Author)

Article outlines the special problems of the highly mobile student, children of highly mobile, affluent parents, military parents, and migrant workers, and states the need for special educational consideration for those children. (Author/RK)

Author considers the sex imbalance in the use of male and female teachers in public elementary schools and its effects upon school children. (RK)

An administrator attempts to defend his professional behavior with a statement of principles designed to point out that the academic world is similar to the life outside it, full of apparent incompatibilities that had to be made compatible by the art of politics. (Author/RK)

Discusses an NEA task force study of the use of corporal punishment in schools. Study results indicate that physical punishment as a disciplinary measure causes great harm, such as student behavioral problems and potential lasting psychological damage. Sixteen reasons for abandoning corporal punishment are presented along with task force…

Author reviews Student Use of Unscheduled Time,'' by Walter J. Foley, Gordon C. Harr, and Larry Smiley (Iowa Educational Information Center), and Comparing Block Scheduling and Traditional Scheduling on Student Achievement and Attitudes,'' by Adrian P. Van Mondrans, James L. Schott, and Denny G. French (paper presented at the convention of the…

Purpose of this investigation was to assess the effects of behavioral objectives, criterion evaluation, and remediation upon the classroom progress of disruptive adolescents. (Authors)

A chronicle of author's two days a week at a school in a large northern city-- the story of what happened to him and what he saw happening to the children and their teachers in the open classroom. (Author/CB)

Article assesses the value of prescribing two commonly used tranquilizers in relieving students of examination anxiety. (Author/RK)

Deals with the personal relevance of infraction" in variable sociocultural contexts by examining the association between delinquency and adolescent self-conceptions among junior and senior high school students differentiated on the basis of race and status. (Author/JM)

A procedure for recording and coding teacher and pupil behaviors in the classroom has been described and suggested as an assessment instrument of the school psychologist. (Author)

This study explored the effects of group counseling procedure employing peers as helpers and compared the peer helper group counseling procedure with the counselor oriented group counseling procedure. Findings indicated that peers can assist counselors and that the counselor alone is not a potent enough change agent. (Author)

The findings in the present study show that an understanding of subject matter tends to be more important than the forms which academic interrogation may take. Hence a solution to the problem of cultural bias seems to relate to remedial academic skills. (Author)

This investigation utilized role theory as a model for research into social studies curriculum through the identification of dimensions of teacher expectation and student behaviors. (Authors)

Describes a visit to a British primary school and discusses the observed interaction between student and teacher. Discusses how teacher aides and self-instructional materials help the teacher divide students according to interest and readiness. (Author/DN)