Describes President Carter's tuition relief proposal for middle class students, some findings on the lack of awareness of the democratic process by young students, and the federal government's efforts to increase school-desegregation in publicly supported universities. (RK)

Attention has focused recently on the educational neglect of children in the hospital. Author visits a children's hospital school which tries to allow children to live rather than merely exist. (Editor/RK)

The need for a Learning Facilitation Team is described which cooperatively works to find solutions for the problems presented by specific students. The team is also charged with the responsibility of encouraging total staff involvement to build a total school plan for helping students. (Author)

Discovers that all is not well with the EEC-funded mother tongue project in Bedford. (Editor)

While many teachers view the current trend in education toward more formal methods of assessment with considerable anxiety, there seems to be little coherent expression of the part that assessment should play, and the form it should take. Outlines an approach to assessment that seems appropriate and supports educational requirements in a primary…

Investigates how two different types of school grade level organization affect social and psychological development of adolescent youth. Compares K-8 structures with K-6 and junior high school settings. Discusses differential changes between sixth and seventh grade in students' self-esteem, participation in extracurricular activities, and…

Ways in which the vocational teacher, supervisor, and administrators may assist the student in his or her pursuit of self-improvement. (HD)

The alternating use and misuse of the terms student personnel work, student affairs and student development are discussed thoroughly. Here are recommendations: "student personnel work" should be put to rest; "student affairs" should be used in reference to actual services; and "student development" should apply to related philosophy and underlying…

Student personnel professionals must be willing to provide the leadership for taking on the important challenges of student development in the face of increasingly difficult conditions, which will continue to face colleges and universities. Presented at the American College Personnel Association Convention, March 1977, Denver, Colorado. (Author)

Social studies preservice teachers received background information on Kohlberg's theory of moral development and were trained to use one of the rater guides in his new "issue stage scoring system." They were directed to score sample moral thought statements, some on an intuitive basis and some with the rater guides. No overall differences between…

Examines what types of liberating understandings or competencies that political science, particularly the introductory courses, can give the general education student who will not major in the discipline. (Author/RK)

Peer counseling, an educational strategy in which students counsel and help facilitate the growth and development of other students, was implemented in an urban high school. In general, the counselees gained an ability to relate more effectively with both peers and adults and in problem solving and communication skills. (Author)

Discusses the general neglect of values education in the student development approach to student personnel work--specifically, the issue of integrity. Summarizes the relatedness of three goals of values education to the issue of integrity in student development, and concludes that the values education perspective provides some helpful approaches.…

The National Heart and Blood Vessel Research and Demonstration Center has developed a program called the Cardiovascular Curriculum Education Project, designed for secondary school students, which consists of self-instructional education units on cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors. Describes its three major components and method of…

Examines how youths' plans are formed in the Japanese educational system compared with plan formation in the U.S. educational system. Studies the stability of Japanese students' plans by junior high school, the responsiveness of plans to grade changes, and high school rank. Discusses adolescent planning confusion and the effect of grades on…