This document contains the September 1925 through June 1926 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, legislation before Congress, foreign schools and education systems, education association activities,…

Article focused on the issue of participating in matters of immediate and widespread concern, on involving ourselves with the problems of others. (Author/RK)

Considered the role of the assistant principal as arbitrator and mediator in conditions requiring measures of discipline. (RK)

The reference-bibliographer concept is examined from several perspectives: historical antecedents; relationship to the academic setting; and the authors' experience with a staff of subject specialists at a predominantly undergraduate college library. (JB)

The preparation and sale of term papers involves an exchange of ideas arguably protectable under the first amendment. (Author/PG)

Article to be continued. (DD)

Elementary school children's parents responded to video-taped sequences portraying either an overactive, an underactive, or an average-active child. Generally supported hypotheses: (1) overactive children would be punished more severely than other children; (2) the label emotionally disturbed'' would influence adult responses, and (3) affect and…

Argues that all drivers of school buses should be trained professionals, and explains how parent awareness of discipline problems on buses can be increased by playing them a tape recording of a ride. Discusses the efforts of a research team to draft a performance standard for the construction of a school bus body with emphasis on panel separation,…

Discusses the thesis that the administration of physical punishment to children may pre-dispose them to violence as adults. Child-rearing practices, physical punishment within the schools, modeling of violent behavior by adults, and the self-fulling prophecy, i.e., you are bad,'' are types of practices considered. (LK)

Two court decisions illustrate that school personnel have responsibilities and rights in the area of student control; but courts also are cognizant of the fact that teachers, like other human beings, may err. (Author/MF)

Teachers who are classified as humanistic'' were perceived by students as using different teaching styles than those classified as custodial.'' The humanistic'' teachers tended to be perceived as using techniques more compatible with the recommendations of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study writers. (AL)

Reinforcement with tokens and time-out procedures was used to control the disruptive or negative behavior of nine retarded children in a nursery school setting. (Author)

Parents of 7th graders whose moral judgments were humanistic" were found to use discipline techniques that varied according to the occasion, to use induction methods and to focus on issues and possible reparation. The discipline of parents of children whose moral judgments were conventional," frequently involved love withdrawal and emphasized…