This article discusses conflicts that arise between teachers and administrators due to the role system of the schools and reviews research on the necessary ingredients for cooperative conflict resolution and collaborative decision making. (SJL)

The role of the teacher and administrator in fostering positive mental health is to provide successful experiences for students and to avoid instilling negative self-concepts. (MM)

Schools are still programatically preparing children of different castes for different adult worlds. Black children often enter school with attitudes and skills which may be in conflict with those required for the middle-class type of school success. Schools often reinforce these conflicts and doubts in subtle ways. (Author/EB)

Manual communication methods used by the deaf may be helpful techniques for remedial instruction with hearing children. (MKM)

The results of a study of student and administrator attitudes at a private and a public university indicate that on policy, and other issues relevant to the campus community, the differences between students and administrators are perceptual rather than real, although students expected administrators to be more conservative than they really were.…

The principal must play a key role in any successful school community information campaign. Tips are provided for running an election information campaign. (Author/MLF)

Summarizes the development of a course on the history of masculinity which confronts historical and cultural sterotypes. Course outline, requirements, and objectives are presented. Appendices include two sample reading selections, a copy of an exam question and the answer provided, and a local newspaper story on the course. (TP)

Reports responses of ninety high school graduates to a "consumer competencies" questionnaire developed for a doctoral dissertation. Findings may provide some evidence that consumer education in home economics courses can help young adults to be more intelligent consumers and may also provide a basis for planning consumer education programs. (MF)

This paper describes two experiments conducted to assess the impact of the need for effective control on attributions made in a conflict situation. Subjects were college students. (CM)

Research has shown parents have strongly favored in loco parentis and students have not. This study found that, despite the increasing recognition of 18 as legal adulthood, there are still differences between attitudes of students and parents regarding the university's parental role, although both groups favored some university control. (Author)

Discusses activities related to the kinesthetic sense, the perception of balance, and the perception of body position in space. (SL)

A model plan is needed for the development of an effective and functional communication network between educators and health professionals designed to be applicable to the needs of numerous communities and children in public school. (JD)

Predictions were derived from the assumption that the vocabulary store underlying the auditory analysis of verbal stimuli is organized as an acoustic space rather than as a lexicon (tree) or collection. The relationship between frequency of occurrence in the language and frequency of occurrence as an error is low. (Author/SW)