Assumptions of applied behavior analysis are presented: (1) good practice should be good research; (2) behavioral goals, procedures, and effects should be socially validated; and (3) a systems perspective should be adopted when focusing on behavior analysis and intervention. (Author/JAC)

Evaluates sociological studies which show that socioeconomic status and mental illness are inversely related and hypothesizes that this relationship exists for some disorders but not others. Findings from a study of approximately 10,000 first admissions to state hospitals indicate that an inverse relationship exists only for organic and…

Asserts that an accurate examination and documentation of Pacific Islanders' educational, health, and socioeconomic status is needed. Argues that until Guamanians and Samoans are recognized as a legitimate responsibility of the United States and are provided governmental programs for educational, economic, and social development, this country is…

Discusses a report of 12 of the nation's leading environmental groups which identifies nine environmental problem areas and proposes 75 specific actions for approaching present and foreseeable problems. (MLH)

Notes that attempts to apply research findings based on undifferentiated comparisons between black and white elderly toward the solution of problems faced by black elderly are doomed to ineffectiveness. (Author/AM)

Considers the attitudes of adolescents in terms of four subjects: relationships, feelings, growing up and concerns. The four subjects were determined from a detailed analysis of 109 new songs recorded by Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon from 1968 to 1975. (Author/RK)

A behind-the-scenes look to help you be a more effective decision maker on science materials. (Editor)

Argues that social forces and social pathologies figure prominently in the dynamics of suicide. Gives several examples of "social suicide," including mass suicide, organizational self-destruction, social analogues to individual suicide, and military suicide. Claims that suicide prevention requires social, economic, and cultural transformations at…

Argues that artists, educators, and researchers who love theater, children, and theater for children can help to secure a prominent place for theater and the other arts in the futures of children by engaging in arts-based educational research that is story-based, compelling, persuasive, and artful and that aims at a wide audience of fellow…

Presents a model for studying the relationship between immigration and racial stratification. It must be recognized that racial stratification is a dichotomous hierarchy and that race and ethnicity are neither identical nor interchangeable. The racial assimilation of immigrants of various ethnic groups is central to the construction of the U.S.…

Discusses R. Herrnstein's and C. Murray's attempt to persuade an educated white readership that they, the readers, are genetically, socially, and intellectually superior. The most effective criticisms are those that rely on scientific evidence about the manipulation of data and flawed analyses rather than the display of moral outrage. (SLD)

Responding to articles in the February 1997 "Educational Leadership" on "Rethinking the Purpose of Education," this article deplores worsening social inequalities and upholds the importance of the third sector and service learning in societal transformation. A simple checklist (the PECTS system) shows how politics, the economy,…

Introduces the findings of Ricoeur's hermeneutics and interprets the usefulness of his philosophy in the study of domination. The role of interpretation as a constitutive part of ideology critique is understudied and it is here that Ricoeur's ideas are instructive. Uses Ricoeur's insights in order to show their potential to disrupt asymmetrical…

Examined the relationship between children's self-ratings of depressive symptoms and teachers' ratings of the children's situational social competence. Results show that teachers rated those children who reported high levels of depressive symptoms as having more problems in social competence when compared to children who reported low levels of…

Proposes that theatre teachers should teach students to enter participatory democracy as artists and scholars with the skills to be competent, engaged, and thoughtful citizens. Encourages artists to claim their places as political agents. Advocates the teaching of the artistry of theatre, as well as its history, theory, criticism, and literature…