Based on author's dissertation with the same title, University of Wisconsin. (Editor)

The School Environment Preference Schedule or SEPS measures the extent to which the student accepts those attitudes, values, and behaviors fostered in traditional school environments. Inferences regarding cultural differences must include consideration of response sets. (DB)

Concludes that probably most 6th graders cannot be relied upon as indicators of parents' socioeconomic status. Infers psychological need as cause of blacks to upgrade fathers' status, whites to upgrade mothers' status, and children of either race to upgrade parent of the same sex as themselves. (Author/DB)

The author contends that well financed educational systems will produce satisfied and well educated students. She is a professor of education at the University of Maryland in College Park and has published extensively in her field. (CK)

College seniors (N=103) completed a self-assessment survey to identify types of additional programing that would meet students' concerns about life in "the real world." Data analysis revealed trends with significant implications for future programing and counseling in career planning and placement. (RC)

Discusses a continuum of approaches to discipline that range from those granting the child maximum freedom or authority to those that emphasize teacher control over children's behavior. (RH)

Researchers studied how one county in Florida responded to a state-mandated Primary Education Program (PREP), which requires school districts to provide early intervention services in kindergarten through third grade. The program concentrates on early diagnosis and prevention of problems. Teachers' and administrators' views of the program are…