This document presents a discussion and projections of future involvement of higher education in the courts. Seven major hypotheses are discussed in detail that will either dissuade or encourage academic court litigation. These are: (1) Colleges and universities will turn increasingly to the courts for protection against hostile external pressures…

Children who are chronic discipline problems are rebelling because the school is not meeting their needs and interests. (JD)

The symptoms of school phobia were found to be student withdrawal, unwillingness of the student to leave the mother, being either the oldest child of the family or the last one left at home, and having an impulsive, violent, sadistic philandering father. Five adolescents are examined in detail and a proposal is made that adolescence is a time…

The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) has called for a national commitment to educating the handicapped. An earlier article (EJ 163 681) described this law and many of its ramifications. Teachers were also asked to share their experiences with mainstreaming. Here are some of their responses. (Editor/RK)

The Warnock Committee has just signed the long-awaited report on special education. The focus here is on the most controversial issue in the report: whether children defined as being in need of special education should be integrated into ordinary schools. Examines the success of one authority in pioneering special classes in ordinary schools.…

Today many of the ideas Horace Mann fought for are caught up in controversy and confusion. His faith in the common school movement, his confidence in local board members, his ideas about parental involvement and about the importance of teachers, his dream that every child should attend school--all that once seemed so correct has come under…

When young students are moved from one school to another they may experience a number of anxieties. Here are a series of suggestions that might help teachers inform and orient new students so that they feel at home in classrooms they enter during the school year. (Author/RK)

A survey of 420 secondary school students reveals their attitudes toward school environment. (DS)

Describes the roles into which the student newspaper might be cast and explores several alternatives that can make the student newspaper increasingly independent from the identity of the parent institution. (LJR)

The Apple Skills Exchange will teach almost anything to almost anyone--moped maintenance, juggling, dealing with compulsive eating, an introduction to cabinetry. Zhenya Lane, who is managing the school, discusses its characteristics as well as those of the students. (Author/RK)

An inquiry was made into the impact that the 1960s had had on high school student's behavior and conduct in the 1970s. A survey of 159 schools in 17 states indicated that violence has been replaced with compromise and consideration. Nevertheless, school and student management are still in need of refinement and reevaluation. (Author/RK)

Parents are asking educators for ways of not having to choose between themselves and their children. How independent schools can help is discussed by the author in her remarks made at the 1977 National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference. (Author/RK)

Schools teach much more than the traditional curriculum. They also teach a "hidden curriculum"--those unstated norms, values, and beliefs promoting hierarchic and authoritarian social relations that are transmitted to students through the underlying educational structure. Discusses the effects of the "hidden curriculum" on the…

Do head teachers have too much power to suspend pupils? Are the rights of pupils and parents being adequately safeguarded? A teacher reports on a dramatic case conference. (Editor)