Article suggested the establishment of a Speaker's Bureau, an educational program designed to foster communication between the school and its community by providing local citizens first-hand information about the schools on a variety of interesting educational issues. (Author/RK)

Describes a group approach with parents, teachers, and students, which worked in helping students who have problems in school. (Author/MLF)

Author remembers some of his first classroom and playground experiences at his new infant school. (Editor/RK)

After nearly four years of debate, the Harvard University faculty voted, 182 to 65, to accept a proposal championed by Dean Henry Rosovsky that will result in a major overhaul of undergraduate academic requirements. Students at Luther Burbank Junior High School join together to stop their own vandalism and launch an all-out blitz to earn a…

Discusses the current status of Summerhill school since the death of its founder, A. S. Neill, and concludes that little has changed. (JG)

There are a lot of things you'll need to find out before taking the plunge into postsecondary education with at least some assurance of getting what you expect to get. (Editor)

The fundamentals of sound secondary student discipline are embodied in six concepts. Suggests that recognition of these concepts and an enthusiastic effort to implement them will have a positive impact on the school. (Author/RK)

Focuses on pupils' and teachers' perceptions of their situation in school. The author, a teacher-counselor in a large inner-city school, draws on her experience to provide examples of ways in which children see their situations. Stresses the children's attempt to derive meaningfulness from their time in school, and points to the significance of…

Describes a homeroom advising program developed at Central Junior High School in Omaha, Nebraska. The original goal of the program was to give students a sense of belonging, but the program accomplished much more and carried over into all aspects of the school. (MD)

Argues that too much instructional time is being wasted in today's classrooms and cites some of the most common time-wasters, along with possible remedies. (CJH)

Principal Gene Bedley of El Camino Real School in Irvine, California, is the 1985 winner of the National PTA Hearst Outstanding Educator of the Year Award. Mr. Bedley believes that education is a shared experience and builds strong relationships with teachers, parents, and children. Some of his techniques are described. (MT)

The author's personal experiences illustrate her comments on five factors that affect whether learning environments are positive or not. These factors involve student relationships with staff members, the clarity of disciplinary processes, justifications for rules, the presence of practices encouraging dishonesty, and respect for confidentiality…

Analyzes the ways historians of education have incorporated children and youth into their histories in the past decade. Covers works viewing children as objects of regulation, workers, endangered, disorderly, taught, and learners; and discusses the ways these views of children have affected views of the role of education. (Author/AYC)

Article discusses a basic knowledge of the principles of tort law as they pertain to educational personnel, and a common sense application of those principles to daily practice. (Author/RK)

It is well-known that Scottish universities are highly local institutions and that over two-fifth of Scottish university students live at home. Attempts to ascertain if this regionalism has relaxed over the past twenty years with student grant regulations, improvement in communications and the increasing affluence of today's society. (Author/RK)