The goal of classroom management, like government, is to create and maintain an environment which protects and advances individuals. Creating such a classroom environment involves trust between teacher and students, a conviction that misbehavior is relative, and student participation in finding alternatives for disruptive conduct. (Author/SJL)

The common developmental problems of young adults--career focus, sex confidence, clarification of beliefs, and separation from parents--provide themes of interest to young adults. Using these themes and the human tendency to problem solve, specific information can be given to improve personal problem-solving skills without psychological games.…

Cross-sectional comparison of elementary and secondary school children and parents examined changes in work values and relationships between children's and parents' work values as a function of age and sex. Revealed support for hypothesized differences in children's values and for convergence of sex differences in values at later ages. (Author)

In China work-study education is conceived as a way for every Chinese citizen to merge individual ambitions with the collective goals of the Chinese Revolution. Discusses the regular, full-time work-study program as it has developed in China from the 1930's to the present. (Author/RK)

Education is considered by some to be so important a determinant of individual well-being in American society that an understanding of the reasons for differences in the propensity to invest in education is crucial to the development of sound and equitable social policy. ( MM)

Changes in schools over the past two decades have stemmed largely from various legislative and community pressures. Some of these forces are briefly discussed and projected trends for the coming decade as they affect the schools and their media centers are described. (MJB)

Individuals taking inventory of themselves will need to sort out strong traits and decide which aspects to preserve and augment and which to reconsider. After determining the patterns of life and work that bring the most satisfaction and pleasure, they can begin to sort out areas for productive change. (Author)

The work-study model has been a constant feature of Chinese education. Its goals and results are discussed with regard to lessons for foreign educators and policymakers. Focus is on access, economic benefits, and transforming values. (Author/LBH)

Late nineteenth-century educators were anxious to accommodate the skill needs of an increasingly mechanized society while preserving the moral values, egalitarian sentiments, and dreams of cohesion of an earlier day. (JD)

Many of the reforms of the 1960s are worth preserving, suggests the president of Georgetown University, including widened access, integration of minorities and women, and better relations with students. However, there is also a need for a faculty-structured curriculum in liberal arts and a return to values, including religious ones. (Editor/LBH)

Psychosynthesis is one approach that strives to reach from the lower unconscious to the self, helping man to recognize his higher as well as his lower impulses, to accept the responsibility of deciding which to express and which to renounce, and to deal with the anxiety that is an inescapable aspect of the process of self-actualization. (Author)

Planning for higher education involves planning for expanded intellectual horizons and civilized progress, not for decline.

Uses Israel as an example to examine three variables--size, organizational mode, and political value system--and their effects on educational policy making and planning at a national level. Argues that in Israel's case small size, centralization, and democracy interact to create a new type of planning behavior termed the enlightenment approach.…

The future of the elderly in the People's Republic of China will be influenced by political agenda, degree to which traditional values toward the aged are preserved, degree to which eldercare support is built on the existing social structure, eldercare program institutionalization in the state budget, and the elderly's continued integration into…

The Hazen Foundation screens proposals, scouts projects in all parts of the country and annually funds three dozen programs and organizations. The foundation's overriding and continuing concern has been American youth and the environment and values that guide the development of young people. (MLW)