Explores the impact of the Central Office Staff (COS) on educational decisionmaking in a medium-sized city from an insider's'' perspective and sets forth several testable hypotheses. (Author)

Describes an outdoor education program for students from diverse social backgrounds and how they learned to cooperate with one another in their exploration of the wilderness. (RK)

Findings suggest that peer censure may often be an effective means of counteracting the influence of a aggressive model. However, the effectiveness may be lessened under conditions where the individual who urges restraint on the part of others fails to demonstrate this characteristic in his own behavior. (RB)

Reports studies of bi-racial groups of schoolboys working on tasks of cooperative problem-solving in an integrated setting, designed to determine if status can be based on contributions to the task in terms of motivation and competence regardless of race. (JM)

Part 1 of a continued article. (RS)

Reports the results of a study on the most assertive member in integrated small groups composed of two black and two white junior high school boys, a study which attempted to determine if black assertives were treated differently and behaved differently than white assertives. (JM)

Conclusion of an article begun in the March 1972 issue. (WB)

Egocentric children were shown to have inadequate social schema to understand the adult meaning of conformity and independence. (Author)

Five hundred and eigty-two Negro students of high school age in Washington, D. C. were asked what kind of whites and Negroes they would be most and least willing to associate with, and also whether they feel the same toward all whites. (JM)

Focus is the measurement of power at the community level considering the social organizational context. (SE)

Offers support for the idea that dissonance is aroused only if the consequences of a discrepant action are known in advance and responsibility freely assumed. Graphs, tables, and bibliography. (RW)

The article describes an instructional program designed to provide a broad professional foundation in group work, and, under supervision, provide opportunities to develop and perfect skills in the group counseling process. (Author/BY)