Open letter by chairman of NCTE Secondary Section Committee. (RD)

Factors inhibiting the development of a school community, directions indicated by existing research, and the building of a school community are discussed. (Author)

Author, who is director of the Alternative Schools Project in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, describes how persons live together in the place called school." (Author/SP)

Results suggest that recollections of earlier experienced parental attitudes can be retrospective clues of earlier parent-child interaction along the alienation dimension of an Anti-Establishment vs. Establishment philosophy of early child rearing. (Authors/MB)

The results of the study suggest that for one graduate department, a week of discussions changed few attitudes toward campus issues. (Author)

Study suggests that one possible way to begin to increase the attractiveness of secondary schools is to open" the climate. (Authors)

Author probes the reasons behind the recent outward tranquility on campuses and speculates on future of the new youth culture. (Editor/IR)

Second article by same author in this issue on student activism. Notes philosophical differences regarding power structure, decision making, at the college level which are probably manifestations of deeper discontent over social issues which students cannot directly control. Followed by seven critical reviews. (CJ)

Issues that divide the academy and predict continuing polarization. (Editor/IR)

Condensed version of the presidential address delivered at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), December 27, 1970 in New York, New York. (DS)