Assertive discipline is a slick response to the genuine frustrations of teachers trying to manage large classrooms of energetic students. Assertive discipline panders to teachers' defensiveness about their work and ignores significant rights that students have. (CJ)

Offers suggestions about how principals can avoid problems with substitute teachers, including location, selection, and preparation of subs; provision of appropriate information and materials; and evaluation. (WD)

Describes pressures and conditions which encourage academic dishonesty and offers tips for its detection and prevention in college political science classes. Significant influences include: pressures to succeed, classroom logistics, testing methods, punishment severity, faculty and administrator attitudes, fear of litigation, bureaucratic red…

Discusses the use of a behavioral discipline approach--Time Out Procedure--along with other techniques for handling inappropriate classroom behavior. (FL)

Holds that the practice of disciplining children is damaging to their physical, emotional, and social well-being. Describes the democratic and egalitarian parenting model put forth in "Effectiveness Training" as an alternative to adult power based control of children. (Author/GC)

Seeks, in a reasoned analysis, to bring to the consciousness of home economists a model underlying thought and action in the home economics profession. (CT)

Argues for the holding together within a single academic field of study all or as many of the communication disciplines as possible. (PD)

Offers considerations that can guide teachers in the examination of their own attitudes and behaviors regarding discipline problems. Presents a model to help teachers deal with discipline problems, including an analysis of sources of misbehavior, prevention techniques, phases of discipline, and behavior adjustment. (Author/JM)

Maintains that getting tougher with disruptive youth does not get at the causes of their problems. Urqes administrators to develop alternative programs as the most effective and humane approach to these students. (Author/JM)

Improvement of a school's discipline program can begin with the opinion inventories published by the National Study of School Evaluation. Once teachers, students, and parents have assessed strengths and weaknesses, an appropriate plan can be chosen. This article outlines five approaches. (WD)

Offers guidelines from the chief of security services of a Maryland school district on how to handle three hypothetical disciplinary situations in schools involving fights, student drug use, and trespassers. (RW)

The author draws a conceptual map of art education, intended as a theoretical introduction to the field for both students and researchers of art education. (Author/SJL)

Examines some basic principles underlying success or failure in classroom management and suggests activities to promote cooperative awareness among students. (CM)

It is a pitifully narrow humanities curriculum which focuses on great Western art, as many college humanities sequences have done. Any true consideration of the humanities needs to view mankind in relation to the cosmos. In essence, all one's education needs to be humanistically oriented in the broadest possible sense. (Author/SJL)

Presents Georg Simmel's methodological synthesis as a means of unifying the following contrasting systems of inquiry in the study of speech communication: (1) the artistic endeavor of rhetorical criticism and (2) the scientific or empirical study of communication behavior. (PD)