The results of this study suggest that discussions about alienated youths retreating to drugs may be oversimplified; it is possible that drugs have become such an acceptable part of the youth culture that alienation has little to do with overall consumption. (JD)

Seven critical pressures or influences have modified general education since 1946: (1) three waves of G.I. Bill holders; (2) racial and ethnic integration; (3) television; (4) student protest; (5) demands of the job market; (6) overlap of the secondary school curriculum with that of freshman and sophomore years of college; and (7) changing student…

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)

This article critically examines the nature of teacher isolation. Two common research orientations are first characterized--isolation as a condition of teachers' work and isolation as a psychological state--and then an alternative perspective, isolation as an adaptive strategy, is proposed. (TE)

Examines some of the causes behind academic burnout and acknowledges that, to be solved, the problem must be recognized by faculty and administrators alike. (HOD)

Community colleges can offer exciting and satisfying programs for drop-outs, stop-outs, and shoved-outs - if they adapt their traditional procedures creatively. (Editor)

Graduates from a public, postsecondary vocational-technical school are compared with a control group to assess differences in level of anomie. While differences in some cases were minimal, vocational-technical graduates generally revealed more positive attitudes. It is suggested that since their education is more job-centered and they have…

In response to the argument that the critiques of schooling lack conceptual consistency and clarity, this paper discusses these criticisms within the conceptual framework of self-alienation. (Editor)

This issue focuses on the phenomenon of alienation among young people. Alienation is discussed relative to employment, authority, family, religion, and technology. One author attempts to make a case for some alienation, and another offers critical comments on counseling services. (CJ)

Argues that many of the problems black women students have to adjusting to predominantly white colleges are rooted in the scarcity of black males available for social life and dating. (JM)

Charges that the term alienation" has no scientific usefulness or meaning; and that it is useful only to formula-peddling counselors and spokesmen for the status quo when dealing with problem" minority groups. (JM)

Campus ministries are called today to critical participation in the radical movements for revolutionary change. (Editor)