Discusses limitations to the behaviorist approach to classroom management and suggests that schools must design strategies of prevention as well as remediation. (NH)

While participation in one of three varied forms of sensitivity training influenced only three of eight measured concepts and resulted in minimal attitudinal changes in two of the groups, it may be concluded that sensitivity training offers one avenue of helping teachers understand themselves and their individual students. (Author/CJ)

While it is clear that important changes in college sexual behavior are occurring, these changes do not justify the term sexual revolution." Rather, they are related to changes in moral standards that show considerable continuity with the past. (Author)

Argues that support for student rights by Supreme Court ruling on the concept in loco parentis" will help students extend their involvement in school decision making. (KJ)

Student disorders in today's high schools must be met with understanding and tolerance. Changes in education along lines that will meet the needs of today's students will alleviate these disorders. (CK)

Discusses development of Statement, its endorsement by numerous organizations, its continuing reevaluation and revision to meet current needs on campus in light of court decisions. (CJ)

From a special feature on "Violence & Agression. Other articles in the feature include "Agression in the Classroom by Fritz Redl, "Temper Trantrums by A.E. Trieschman, and "Scapegoating by Beryce W. MacLennan.

Students who wish to get bad grades should daydream, not read their textbooks or study manuals, avoid note taking, and procrastinate on assignments. This "manual" is used in an introductory psychology class to modify students' habits and change mediocre classroom behavior. (CS)

The effects of contingent reinforcement under conditions of self-determined and externally determined standards were studied in two fifth-grade language art classes (N=64 students). Contingent reinforcement with externally determined standards produced an increase over reinforcement with self-determined standards. Experience with external…

Participant-observation was used to evaluate the social behavior of 20 visually handicapped juniors and seniors in a residential school for the blind. Analysis revealed that the behavior observed was fairly typical of social behavior expected by sighted adolescents in any school setting. (Author/SW)

Suggests several positive reinforcement methods that teachers may employ with inner-city students to improve student responsibility, organization, and motivation. These methods include offering incentives for grade improvement, tangible and nontangible reinforcers, token systems, and social reinforcement. (GC)

The Nigerian Manpower Project, which placed large numbers of Nigerian students in American community colleges, did not alter the delivery of subject matter at one Illinois college. But difficulties arose from the Nigerian students' culturally-induced reliance on teachers as knowledge authorities, versus the faculty preference for independent…