What is the extent of persistent absenteeism from school and why does it happen? Sheffield Education Department set out in 1973 to find answers to these and some other related questions. (Editor)

To pursue the question of how women art students felt about their work and about being artists, a study was conducted of students enrolled in seven institutions of higher education. The study also noted the possible differences in career commitment between students attending the professional schools and the universities. (Author/RK)

A family-based, multi-system intervention is described as a response to three years of an adolescent's school failure. In a case study describing an unmotivated family, unmotivated school, and systems-oriented helpers, an intervention plan is developed, directed toward improving the adolescent's school behavior and performance. Family therapy…

A mother recounts the feelings she experienced when attempting to decide where to send her daughter to boarding school. Her concern with the frantic social life in New York City and how it would affect her growing, twelve-year-old daughter led her to England. (RK)

The emergence of homosexuality as a professedly viable alternative is seen as a byproduct of the basic problem at Sarah Lawrence. That is the conflict between the women's movement on campus and the administration's efforts to proceed to full coeducation. (LBH)

To help you keep current in the ever-changing world of teaching. (Editor)

Used qualitative data, gathered from 13 university students and 9 staff in student support services, to identify disabled students' key career issues and service provision issues. Results suggest that enhancing the career development of these students requires that issues in the external environment receive as much attention as the students…

Reports on a longitudinal study that mapped the transition between primary and secondary school from a student perspective. Explores how this transition impacts the way students think about, learn, and enjoy science at school. Describes the changes in organization, curriculum, and teacher-student relationships that occur at this time. Contains 52…

Examines ways in which the home schools of 287 gifted students credited students' participation in accelerated high school courses sponsored by university summer programs. After program accreditation, the number of positive responses by the students' schools increased significantly, including giving course credit, appropriate placement within the…

Tests the Primary Socialization Hypothesis of deviant behavior in examining drug use in a sample of adolescents participating in a federally sponsored program for disadvantaged youth. The theory holds that peer, family, and schools are the principal agents in instilling pro-social norms in adolescents. As predicted by the theory, family and school…

Strategies for removing environmental barriers to learning are listed and include being aware of the school's existing social systems; involving parents; continually investigating teacher alienation; designing programs and policies that positively affect all students, allowing all students to participate in decision making; and encouraging…

This study assessed how schools, neighborhoods, nuclear families, and friendship groups jointly contribute to positive change during early adolescence. Analyses showed that the four context indices modestly intercorrelated at the individual student level, but clustered more tightly at the school and neighborhood levels. Joint influence of all four…

Attachment theory is used as the theoretical base to understand the impact that rejection of relationship connections can have on the development of gay and lesbian adolescents. Developmental challenges for gay and lesbian youth are addressed as are the frequent failure of families and schools to provide continuity of secure caregiving to these…

Summarizes studies of school environmental factors associated with student drug use and prevention. Major factors that emerge are school supportiveness, sense of community, and opportunities for students to interact and to exert influence. A common conclusion seems to be that a supportive environment increases students' attachment to school and…