Examination of disciplinary referrals reveals patterns involving the relationship of race and sex of both teachers and students with White female teachers making significantly more referrals than their Black male counterparts. Several questions for future study are raised. (JMF)

Student rights advocates have learned again that sweeping victories do not always emerge from the Supreme Court, even with the most compelling evidence. They must redouble their efforts--lobbying, educating the public, counseling students--to ensure that no student has to endure a school like Drew High School. (Author/WI)

Examines the interaction between the teacher and the student who is a discipline problem. Describes how a teacher can determine if he is contributing to classroom discipline problems by his teacher-learner interaction. (Author/RK)

Examines the relationship between identified disruptive students enrolled in the Educational Support Program and data recorded on their guidance cumulative folders to justify early childhood intervention as a means of prevention. Disruptive students tended to have lower IQ scores, come from large families, and be from minority groups. (Author)

Lee Canter is an instructor on the extension faculty of California State University at Fullerton. He mixes pep talks and common sense with a course of behavior modification and body language designed to change teachers into "assertive" teachers. At the Bridge International School in Denver foreign students learn English and also how to…

This research attempts to develop methods which teachers can use now in dealing with disturbances in the classroom, and to investigate the efficiency of these methods in decreasing the disturbances in working conditions. Develops the idea that teachers should be able to use positive means in dealing with disruptive behavior by students. (Author/RK)

Defines discipline problems and discipline and discusses why discipline problems exist within the schools and Harvey Clarizo's four steps that teachers can take to minimize these problems. (EM)

Describes a self-awareness process that enables the teacher to teach cognitive coping rather than to discipline children. The process involves playing the Okazi Word Game, keeping a coping diary, the teacher coding his own behavior as well as the childrens using the Coping Behaviors Index, and task analysis. (Author/AM)

Concepts involved in the various methods of individualization of instruction are not out of reach in the sub-optimal setting, but adjustments in implementation of the methodology are necessary. (MJB)

Examines the problems substitute teachers have with conducting regular lessons when the class is unruly and offers a student questionnaire that gives an idea of what substitutes face as one solution. (JC)

Briefly reviews contemporary delinquency problems and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention programs aimed at preventing them. Discusses how law-related education (LRE) is being used successfully in training schools (reformatories) and public schools to help young people avoid drugs, alcohol, crime, and other forms of delinquency.…

The Southern Methodist University football program has been troubled by corruption and violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules for a number of years, and an angry faculty blames a board dominated by Dallas businessmen. Both the football program and the institution's reputation are threatened. (MSE)

A 6-year study indicated that judicial recidivists differ significantly from the general student population in sex, residence, grade point average, class status, and college affiliation. (Author)

Arguments over student discipline tend to overlook that: most students are not at school because they choose to be. Compulsory education has not lived up to its promise. A viable alternative is to repeal coercive laws and to offer twelve years of free schooling, to be taken at any time. (KH)

Discusses the issue of school discipline problems and offers some tentative solutions to the problem. (HOD)