Junior high school journalists must be trusted to determine and implement responsible policy concerning the operation of their newspaper. (Author)

Considers how school officials face the delicate task of balancing a student's individual right to Fourth Amendment protection against their duty to provide a safe and secure environment for all students--a major challenge in cases involving intrusive searches. Discusses recent developments involving intrusive searches, previous court rulings…

This special section of back-to-school ideas contains seven articles on topics such as starting school, working together, making new friends, surviving the first day, creating welcoming bulletin boards, and generating school spirit. (MT)

Discusses how college and university administrators can attract students by providing them with a sense of community. Ideas are offered on student housing policies and living space design. Several trends in student housing are discussed. (GR)

Explores ecologically planned school yards that provide students with places of wonder and exciting things to study, play with, and explore. The article describes three school courtyards that illustrate how schools can transform asphalt playgrounds and paved staff parking lots into stimulating play and learning areas for students. (GR)

Explains why private companies and schools doing business with one another may be harmful to students. Problems uncovered from a decade of commercialization in the classroom are discussed as are issues of for-profit companies seeking to take over the operation of public schools, and one attempt to impose legislation to curtail commercialism. (GR)

Examines Southwest Missouri State University's student union building that was designed and renovated to be inviting, accessible, and easier to identify. Before and after photos are included. (GR)

Discusses "going green" concept in school-building design, its cost-savings benefits through more efficient energy use, and its use by the State University of New York at Buffalo as solution to an energy retrofit program. Examples are provided of how this concept can be used, even for small colleges without large capital budgets, and how…

Examines the apparent disconnect between society's view that smaller schools are better and the continuing trend to build larger schools. Discusses the pros and cons of smaller versus larger schools. (GR)

Reveals how creative design can reposition older campus buildings and preserve their historical or sentimental value to the school community. The following three case studies illustrate these design techniques: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia; Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts; and Mary…

This study explores the relationships between a school, its staff and its pupils and the impact of these relationships on school pupils' well-being. The authors adopted a community psychological perspective and applied critical, social constructionist epistemologies and participatory, multi-method research tools. The article discusses the…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that predict academic achievement and school attachment among Hispanic seventh- and eighth-grade adolescents and to determine whether the associations between these factors are similar for Hispanic and white adolescents. The sample consisted of 170 adolescents. Results for Hispanic…

Article discussed the growing problem of declining verbal skills of the American precollege student. (Author/RK)

Article described the efforts of the Mount Pleasant School in Birmingham to make all children citizens of the new multi-cultural society which Britain is becoming and to give them an understanding of their own cultural background and an appreciation of that of others. (Author/RK)