More than 10,000 students, grades 5 through 12, representing 139 school districts across the United States, responded to a questionnaire designed to ascertain their perceptions of what existed and how they felt about 225 incidents which were judged to be related to oppression in schools. Data were analyzed according to sex, grade level, race, and…

Students can and should be involved in curriculum committees. Greater commitment to decisions is likely to result. The involvement process used in developing curriculum might be as important in assuring effectiveness of that curriculum as is the content itself, for learning is an active process. Moreover, the answer to most of the problems that…

Although it is well settled that a student may not be expelled without a prior hearing, principals in many localities are authorized by statute or board rules to suspend students for periods ranging from 1 to 10 days or more without notice, hearing, or any of the other trappings of due process. Such suspensions are subject to challenge under the…

From 1964 to 1971, many campuses in the U.S. were shaken by major upheavals. What effects did these disruptions have on the structural organization of American universities? The authors explore the question in this research report and conclude that there have been genuine changes and that some of them have been startling. The authors analyze data…

The purposes of this research monograph are to present a pupil personnel model that evolved from five years of testing and evaluation, to present the major aspects of stages in developing the model, and to present data regarding the function of pupil services and the instruments and methodology employed in evaluating the effect of these services.…

This paper presents an analysis of factors related to student absenteeism. Absenteeism, long utilized in industrial and business settings as an indicator of employee adjustment and satisfaction, is suggested as a similar indicator in studying the school as an organization. Characteristics of absence as a variable are explored. The influences of…

This manual provides analyses of issues on and examples of programs relevant to contemporary school crises. Five authors comment on (1) the administrator's dilemma in school disruptions; (2) a case study of school disruption and the responses of two school administrators; (3) three major clusters of issues relevant to the state of American…

This study surveyed high school English teachers, supervisors of English, and English Education professors in Florida as to the "feasibility" of community oriented English instruction. The model for this curriculum was the Parkway Program of Philadelphia, where students take courses from business and professional people. The results show that all…

This report of policy samples is the 17th in a continuing series of kit-booklets issued to help school boards develop written policies in key subject areas. The intent in providing samples is to encourage thinking in policy terms; and to provide working papers to be edited, modified, or adapted to meet local requirements. Policy samples herein…

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) operates approximately 222 schools, ranging from small 1-2 teacher day schools to large residential boarding schools. In September 1974, the BIA established student rights and due process procedures. All BIA schools were to develop a student rights and responsibility (SRR) program, initiated at the local school…

The purpose of this study was to explore some of the differential consequences of student acts of brinkmanship for the student role and the teacher role. A concomitant concern was to investigate the relationship between teacher perceptions of student brinkmanship and teacher pupil control ideology. Three hypotheses were tested in two junior high…

Author proposed to state general propositions sufficiently developed by the outcome of court cases to better understand the weight against which particular situations involving the physical punishment of a student may be tested. The rationale upon which authority for punishment of pupils has evolved was also reviewed. (Author/RK)

Formal efforts at value inculcation or value clarification cannot succeed until the social and professional ethics of the school itself are consistent with professed standards. (Editor)

Emphasizes that the failure to recognize the interplay between personality characteristics and situational determinants has masked important individual reaction patterns concerning general satisfaction and boredom at school. (Author/RK)

Urges teachers and community leaders to come together to decide how schools can be "restructured in their core elements--grades, sports, teacher-pupil relations--to make them sources of ethical conduct rather than training grounds for cheating and coping with arbitrary authority". Also warns that early reading can suppress the creative…