This article describes an immensely successful responsibility-generating teaching format implemented in the undergraduate psychology curriculum at Los Angeles City College. (Editor)

Article presented four design studies aimed at helping youth make the transition from school to work as smoothly and as effectively as possible. (Author/RK)

This booklet, based on the court ordered Uniform Code of Student Conduct, published by the Detroit Public Schools, is designed to make elementary school students in Detroit, Michigan aware of their rights and responsibilities in school. In simple language, the booklet delineates laws and rules the students must abide by, discusses disciplinary…

This document reports the National Education Association (NEA) investigation of the student protests at Southern University, Baton Rouge in 1971. Sections I and II indicate the chronology of the conflict and the initiation, procedures, and scope of the NEA hearings and follow-up interviews on the University campus. In section V the NEA…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of pretesting results on the future learning behavior of graduate students of a university. The teaching technique used was pretesting to assess student entry behavior. Considered in the study was the effect on student behavior of the instructor informing the class they had failed to meet the…

These guidelines present in outline form the rights and responsibilities of elementary and secondary students enrolled in Department of Defense Dependents Schools. The guidelines are statements of principle. The laws and customs of host nations and the general authority of local U.S. military commanders will determine how these guidelines are…

Of first priority is continuous needs assessment by parents, students, and educators to develop mutual understanding of the school's responsibility. The second priority is the establishment of ways for assessing the results of the programs and policies developed. (Author/IRT)

Presents a program developed by three elementary school guidance counselors aimed at promoting student responsibility and respect in the classroom. (JMB)

If one is to know himself and be of some value to society, he needs early in life to learn to be accountable for his actions and his ideas. Suggests that responsibility as an educational philosophy could produce an individual who is an accountable figure and one who would have a stronger place in the world in which he lives. (Author/RK)

Changing from a rather extensive medical excuse system to a policy of issuing no excuses whatever has produced no short- or long-term difficulties associated with medical staff, students, faculty, or administration. (JD)

Describes the author's approach to student-centered learning through writing workshops. Focuses on a series of class assignments in which students read, write about, and discuss "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" to encourage them to accept responsibility for their own learning. (JAD)

A teacher's choice of words can have a powerful effect on students' depth of thinking. Words can be either "think stoppers" or "think starters." A strategy to help students become responsible thinkers is suggested, and several classroom situations are evaluated to show how thinking can be encouraged. (MT)

Lists of behavioral guidelines for sliding staff members. (CRH)

Describes how the Cambridge Pilot School is working in spite of problems that occur when an alternative school is housed in its parent school and the natural constraints of the two territories come to play. (Editor/GB)