Proposes that the American Personnel and Guidance Association shift its focus to play a more active part in trying to influence public policy, and suggests several ways that this might be accomplished. (Author)

Discusses the basis for the failure of the national commitment to education and science to pay off and possible alternatives for better investment of national resources in the future. (PR)

Suggests a series of measures for prevention of child abuse through education, legislation, elimination of poverty, and social services. (Author/AJ)

The author concludes that the office wife" phenomenon involves both social and intrapsychic factors. Such affairs are the products of structured office interaction and most likely contribute to the stability of the marriages of the participants. (Author/BY)

Value conflicts in our social structure can only be resolved when parochial views on all sides give way to a broader perception of the common interest. (Author)

On how successfully the university extension establishment adapts to the new environment may well hinge the survival of extension. (Author/EB)

Outlines some school district programs which continue the educational program of unmarried pregnant students. (Author)

The author, in reviewing his early formal experience as a social studies teacher, reflects on the permanent values and importance of social education. Geography, which has played such a key role in his own writing, is singled out as being of fundamental significance. (JB)

It is concluded that students must learn that in a democracy settlements, not fixed solutions, must be sought for existing social problems. (SD)

Maintains that NCTE should focus upon problems with which it is prepared by professional expertise and influence to deal; appears also in Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 4 (April 1970), 591-92, as Counciletter: Charting Our Course." (RD)