This paper centers around the improvement of the effectiveness of many special school programs for Indian Children and the need for more school personnel sensitive to the need of these children. (Author)

The data presented here indicates improved opportunities for a larger role for Mexican Americans in Texas politics and may be used as a bench mark to periodically measure the rate and direction of political change. (Author)

Results indicated that the children's behavior had an effect upon the parents, with mothers and fathers interacting more and being more controlling when the children were dependent. (Authors)

An inventory of resources available to the classroom teacher is divided into the following sections: curriculum materials, curriculum guides and bibliographies, resource units, bibliography of teacher resources, games and simulations, periodicals, organizations, and a directory of political scientists. (Author/JB)

Development education offers a new approach to teaching about developing nations by cultivating students' abilities to become active, thinking members of society. (JB)

Research sponsored by National Institute of Mental Health and National Science Foundation grants. Visiting Research Associate positions were awarded by the University of Nairobi, Institute of Development Studies and Instutute of African Studies. Earlier version presented to the Institute of African Studies Seminar. (VM)

Paper identifies the components of graduate students role stress and discusses them with reference to current theories in behavioral science and social psychology. (Author)

Identifies the motive to avoid success as an internal psychological representative of the dominant societal stereotype which views competence, independence, competition, and intellectual achievement as qualities basically inconsistent with femininity, even though positively related to masculinity and mental health. (Author/JM)

Parents discouraged cross-sexed interests in boys more than in girls. Parents of the same sex as their child reported more encouragement of sex typing than did opposite-sexed parents. (Authors)

Study derived from the author's doctoral dissertation. Analyzes the relation between the mother's perception of opportunity on the one hand, and the child's achievement motivation, achievement value orientations, and educational and occupational aspirations on the other. Relates this to the difference in extent to which white mothers and Negro…

As humans solve their basic physiological and security needs, they must move toward the consistent satisfaction of social and interpersonal needs. Training programs in interpersonal skills, built into the educational system, would enable people to become competent at initiating and maintaining growth enhancing relationships. (Author/JB)