An eighth grade teacher discusses communicating as a risk-taking behavior. Students were asked to respond to the immediate classroom situation, which had been designed to produce tension, by the sole means of writing on the blackboard, and to draw generalizations about all language from that experience. (JB)

Helpful advice to buildings and grounds administrators on how to sell plant operation programs to the college chief administrator. (Author/MF)

Discusses the need to educate the community to its responsibility toward the mentally ill. (GB)

Article describes three examples of common problems in oral classroom communications and suggested solutions. (GB)

Study of reliability of children in delivering school communications to parents indicated that the younger the child, the more reliable his performance. Percentage of successful deliveries varied from 74 in grade 1 to 34 in grade 6. (RT)

Describes how technical and communicative skills can be combined for training technical writers. Technical Education is a bimonthly supplement to Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. (Editor/GB)

Reports on a conference involving members from the Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America (ISMAA) and the Illinois Junior Colleges. The purpose of the conference was to develop articulation procedures to provide maximum freedom of transfer among junior colleges and degree-granting institutions. Several resolutions are…

The author hails the dramatic changes wrought in several communities following visits from Film Board personnel. By introducing films and videotapes into the communities, they persuaded people to communicate freely and to seek their own solutions for local problems." (Editor)

Describes the author's experiences as a participant in two sensitivity sessions. (LR)

Enumerates characteristics of children exhibiting the behavioral deviancies in question, and makes suggestions for theory and clinical application. This report is based on a paper read before the Southern Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 7, 1968. (MH)

In this perspective, the concept of communication breakdown is abandoned. Instead, it is understood that miscommunication and noncommunication are also ways of transmitting messages. (SK)

Examines two classes of technical problems--communication and integration of applications--occurring in a national library network designed to facilitate information transfer directly among hosts (service providers) and, indirectly, among hosts and users. (CWM)

In a multilateral communication situation, when at least one participant is speaking a language not his own, sociocultural norms must be suspended. The foreign language spoken must here be regarded simply as a particular language variety. Various communication problems and possible solutions are given, with several examples. (IFS/WGA)