The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) operates approximately 222 schools, ranging from small 1-2 teacher day schools to large residential boarding schools. In September 1974, the BIA established student rights and due process procedures. All BIA schools were to develop a student rights and responsibility (SRR) program, initiated at the local school…

Described is a device for use by teachers who are deaf, to assist them with the improvement of their instruction through the Flanders Interaction Analysis method of assessing teachers' classroom performance. Explained, and illustrated with photographs, is an electrical device which, when attached to a videotape recording camera, displays a…

The purpose of this study was to explore some of the differential consequences of student acts of brinkmanship for the student role and the teacher role. A concomitant concern was to investigate the relationship between teacher perceptions of student brinkmanship and teacher pupil control ideology. Three hypotheses were tested in two junior high…

In this study, the cognitive dissonance theory (Aronson, 1972) was applied in an attempt to produce an attitude change by dissonance reduction; that is, to induce a student to behave in a manner contrary to his/her held attitude, thus becoming aware of the inconsistency in his/her behavior and attitude. The attitude would then change to be in line…

Author proposed to state general propositions sufficiently developed by the outcome of court cases to better understand the weight against which particular situations involving the physical punishment of a student may be tested. The rationale upon which authority for punishment of pupils has evolved was also reviewed. (Author/RK)

This article discusses how to recognize and cope with verbal insults and "games" that lower-class students may use to disrupt classroom activities. (CD)

Teaching practices in a total of 273 first and third grade Follow Through classrooms were examined in relation to (1) their consistency with the goals of seven sponsors' educational models, and (2) their effects on children's performance in areas ranging from reading and arithmetic achievement to nonverbal reasoning, independence and school…

Courts seldom overturn school board punishment of students for drug abuse; in fact, relatively few cases even reach the courts. Problems usually arise from poorly written statutes and board regulations that are either vague or inconsistent with statutory requirements. (JG)

A series of recent decisions, largely in federal courts since 1972, are examined for inferences that may encourage institutions to set forth more clearly the conditions that precede dismissal on academic or misbehavior grounds. Guidelines are suggested for administrative procedure and faculty practices such as grading. (JT)

This article introduces secondary and college economics teachers to the technique known as interaction analysis. The Flanders system of analyzing language in the classroom and techniques for applying interaction analysis in economics courses are discussed. For journal availability see SO 504 499. (Author/RM)

Presented is a study to determine the relationship between personality and student responsiveness to a particular learning technique. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was used to indicate student personality; the seminar approach with varying degrees of structure and leadership was the basic classroom technique. (JMD)

Weekend workshops for teachers, focusing upon moral development, prove helpful to participants in encouraging them to understand and strengthen their own moral values, thus enabling them to encourage development of sound values in their students. (JD)

In the best of conceivable worlds, the use of punishment would not be necessary. In the real world of school, however, punishment is sometimes needed. The author provides guidelines for maximizing the positive effects of punishment. (Author/RK)

The author, a Boston-based writer who focuses on the problems of education, visited Cuba to study its school system firsthand. This article is about his stay at the Martyrs of Kent Junior High School, en campo--out in farm country. (Editor/RK)

Examines the differential effects of spatial density of five-year-old children. Generally, normal children motorically adjusted to a high-density condition to a greater degree than children with behavior problems. Anxious and impulsive children were especially distressed by a high-density condition, compared to normals. (Author/MA)