Points out that there are two forces in conflict with one another: (1) the minority parent's drive to seek an effective role in educational decision making and (2) the emergence of teacher collective bargaining in the field of public education. (Author/AM)

Reports on an intensive study of student attitudes and interpersonal behavior in a desegregated school district. (Author/AM)

Evidence suggests that desegregation resulted in changes in attitudes of black and white children who attended predominantly black schools before the school boundary changes. (Author/AM)

The basic critical issue of groups is how they can provide their participants with the opportunity for personal growth. The qualifications and training of leaders, the selection of members, the kind of interaction among members, and the carry-over from group experience to individual meaning must all be examined. (Author/JEL)

This paper analyzes development of group structure in terms of the stimulus-sampling perspective. Learning is the continual sampling of possibilities, with those reinforced possibilities increasing in probability of occurance. This contingency learning approach is tested experimentally. (NG)

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of varying leader selection systems on the performance of political decision-making groups (judges). The type of leadership choice of the court was the independent variable and degree of dissent the dependent variable. As predicted, merit choice had less dissent. (NG)

Focus is on common forms of group resistance and ways of dealing with group resistance and ways of dealing with group resistance. When resistance is expected as a part of the therapeutic process, the counselor has less ego involvement in the resistance and is less likely to respond with countertransference. (Author)

Provides an interpretative review of the literature of conforming behavior with special attention to implications for adult education. Eight different research areas of conformity research are summarized, and five reasons for conformity and three different kinds of conforming behavior are identified and discussed. (SH)

Four major theoretical approaches to increasing classroom work involvement (Behavior modification, understanding individual causal dynamics, influence interventions, and ecology of behavior) are examined. The ecology of behavior approach, felt to be the most potentially useful, examines factors in the classroom environment enabling high work…

This research explores the impact of leader behavior on individual group members in growth groups. Affect of message was found to be the only predictor of member-disclosure. Effects of leader-disclosure on member self-disclosure is difficult to interpret. (MFD)

The relationship between social skills and group psychotherapy is assessed. No evidence is found that high or low socially skilled subjects differ in verbal behavior in analogue groups. No evidence was found correlating overall adjustment and group participation. (MFD)

Presents a theoretical foundation for the use of structured exercises in group counseling with a discussion of implications for practice. (Author)

Investigates how adolescent friendship groups become homogeneous. Analysis of 49 student friendship groups indicates that homophilic selection is most important for group homogeneity, conformity pressures are somewhat important, and disproportionate group leaving contributes nothing to homogeneity. The conclusion is that the magnitude of peer…

This article outlines ways in which a teacher can help a child overcome the handicap of extreme shyness. (JD)

Provides a description of Montbello, an integrated community in Denver. (Author/AM)