An experimental program was developed for children in order to assess their self concept, anxiety, and relative degree of self-responsibility for school successes and failures. (Author/RK)

Asserts that courts are today handing down decisions in matters they would previously have avoided. Warns that board sovereignty and rights of local control will be protected by the courts, but only if the boards act fairly and reasonably. The author presents five court cases and invites readers to determine whether their decisions would have been…

The present paper examined some of the major variables already known to be associated with the phenomena of early withdrawal from school to see what extent these data confirm those of other investigators. (Author/RK)

A discussion of student-generated hierarchies developed for a mathematics objective by several small groups and validated on a second group. About 40 percent of the student-generated hierarchies were validated indicating that student input can be obtained to produce useful learning hierarchies. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to discuss principles of behavior and interaction that teachers can use in formulating intervention approaches with their pupils. (Author)

Author writes of young children in nursery school and the changes in their behavior during the school year. (Editor)

Fifty behavior problems were rated according to their seriousness by 100 teachers of grades three through six assigned to elementary schools of Western New York. (Author/JM)

Environmental characteristics, classroom atmosphere, motivation, and behavior of slow learners'' are some major categories discussed. Numerous specific examples are used to illustrate suggestions. Methods of reinforcing student attitudes are emphasized. (LS)

Reported was a project in which emotionally disturbed, educable mentally retarded, and physically handicapped children were taught behavior modification skills to enable them to change their own behavior, and the behavior of teachers, fellow students, co-workers, and employers. (GW)

Objectives of the study were to determine the relationships among behaviors defined within each of several observation systems; and to examine relationships across systems in order to derive some empirical dimensions of classroom behavior. (Authors/CB)

Based on an analysis of student school records, teachers, administrators, and community citizens have developed a plan to incorporate programs designed to correct specific deficiencies in children in the early elementary grades, to constructively develop academic and social behavior by using positive reinforcement, meaningful rewards, and behavior…

In studying effects of teacher expectancies upon student behavior authors found that more time was spent with the ostensibly superior student. (Editor)

A view of the high school as ecosystem, with implications for the assessment of behavior in the high school culture." (Author/SP)

A descriptive look at the environment of one English primary school. An analysis of how the balance between freedom and control is achieved. (DN)

Near destruction of the city's school plant had a single merit: Londoners could rebuild from scratch. One result is England's highly regarded comprehensive secondary school system. (Author)