Detects a disturbing trend toward the control of teenagers' lives in rereading the 1893 "Report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies, Harry Rivlin's 1936 "Education for Adjustment", and the 1974 study, "Youth: Transition to Adulthood". (Editor/RK)

This article reviews and clarifies the problems of antisocial student behavior in schools, ranging from talking out of turn to violent attacks upon fellow students or teachers. It focuses on the high school and junior high school, and attempts to identify causes while examining programs and procedures for remediating or preventing such behavior.…

Absence from school can be viewed from many perspectives. Social scientists' explanations depend upon their discipline and training, and this research explores the variety of explanations for high school absenteeism which social scientists might offer. It also describes some changes in educators' approaches to the problem. (Author/RK)

The goal of the Architects-in-Schools program is to help students develop an awareness of the "built environment" and its relation with the natural environment. Students learn to make decisions and changes, which will affect the quality of their lives. The author relates how two schools in Virginia have used the program. (Author/RK)

Describes the advantages of the small school-within-a-school plan for students having difficulty growing in an ordinary large secondary school. Uses the example of Santa Maria High School in California and how it gives students an opportunity to study a curriculum suitable for their future expectations. (RK)

After defining "docility" this research considers some factors affecting it, specifically, the effects on Student docility of age and sex, together with the effects of the social structure of the school and of the family. (Author/RK)

This article presents a condensation and clarification of the Buckley Amendment, including guidelines for compliance from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Although no implications are drawn for counselors and pupil personnel workers specifically, the potential impact of the Amendment upon the work of counselors is clearly conveyed.…

The relationships between the delinquency rate of a school and the perceived behavior of its teachers and pupils were compared. The findings were discussed in the context of parental choice of school and questions concerning the tasks and activities offered to pupils and the nature of teacher/pupil relationships within the schools. (Author/RK)

Given that the learning environment in which the student was placed would influence aggression on the playground, it was felt that students would display less aggression on the playground of a pluralistic school, that is a school which offers several distinct learning environments and attempts to place students appropriately, than on the…

Findings of a California secondary school survey of procedures for solving students' problems are presented here, along with recommendations for designing an effective problem-solving mechanism. (Author)

The nation's proprietary schools, the privately owned post-secondary institutions that teach marketable career skills, are rapidly gaining a new degree of acceptance and respectability. Discusses several recent developments responsible for creating the climate in which many proprietary schools are prospering. (Author/RK)

Describes the goals which the faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, set for its new program (particularly for engineering education) and the new teaching and implementation strategies developed to attain those goals, and then examines the tentative results. (Author/RK)

This study describes the procedure and results of a behavior modification program carried out in the classroom and aimed at eliminating encopresis (involuntary defecation) in an 8-year-old boy. (Editor/RK)

Archbishop Ussher (1645) in explaining why all superiors were called parents called upon the idea of patriarchal authority. This paper considers the social implications of the same philosophy as it is represented by the practice of education authorities standing "in loco parentis" to their pupils. (Editor)

Presents a philosophical and practical checklist of considerations to keep in mind in planning and evaluating college security programs, emphasizing the need for student involvement and cooperation. Available from Security World Publishing Co., P.O. Box 272, Culver City, California 90230; single copies $2.00. (JG)