CHILDREN NEED WARMTH, WHOLESOME CONDITIONS, AND AFFECTION IN ORDER TO MATURE WITH GOOD WILL, LOVE, AND RESPECT. THE MISTAKES OF PARENTS PRODUCE MANY PROBLEMS OF ADULTS AND OF THE WORLD. THERE ARE FEW PROBLEMS WHICH CANNOT BE SOLVED IF THERE IS GOOD WILL ON ALL SIDES. EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT A CHILD STARVED OF AFFECTION IS DOOMED TO AN EMOTIONALLY…

This report, the second part of a three-phase study on student mobility, operating under local funds and a government grant, was undertaken to obtain information on some of the educational and social factors associated with high and low student mobility. All sixth-grade children from low-income families in Minneapolis inner-city schools were…

There are two basic types of vandalism, malicious and nonmalicious. Both types can be controlled, but the methods of control differ. Most of the literature deals with malicious vandalism. Perhaps because security appears to be the only way to control malicious vandalism, it is often made the focal point of antivandalism programs. The most…

The day care center is a location where youngsters go during the day for school and group or individual counseling, while continuing to live at home. Juveniles remain in the formalized education and treatment program for approximately four months. Then they graduate into eight months of aftercare. Evaluation measures included recidivism,…

The youths attended the center during the day for school and individual or group counseling, while continuing to live at home. Objectives of the program were to increase academic achievement, improve attitude and motivation toward education, decrease post-center truancy and recidivism, and improve the self-esteem of the individual. A group of 62…

The first in a series of three reports by the National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services which analyze various components of ESEA, this document discusses reasons students drop out of school, reviews some of the methods being used in dealing with the problem in various states and local school districts, and offers several…

School districts are reluctantly paying for repairing damage to their properties that might not have occurred had the buildings and sites been better designed. A study to determine what designers and owners can do to prevent or diminish damage to schools through more careful planning and design reveals five major design issues pertinent to the…

The document presents hearings before the Subcommittee on Public Health, Education, Welfare, and Safety of the 92nd Congress concerning the proposed District of Columbia Youth Act of 1971. The bill proposed to establish a Youth Commission, an Office of Youth Commissioner, and a Youth Commissioner's Advisory Board to plan, coordinate, and monitor…

The second of a 3-year juvenile delinquency prevention program, ARRIBA, involved 90 pre-delinquent Chicano youths (ages 8 to 13). The general thesis of the program was that these youths, provided with an educational/tutorial and culturally supportive program administered by bilingual Chicanos, will have a lower likelihood for delinquent behavior…

This manual has been prepared as a guide to assist school district administrators, coordinators, and teachers in organizing and implementing a sequential program of instruction in crime prevention and drug education. This framework is the result of a two year study by staff members of the Texas Education Agency, local school districts, regional…

A two-year demonstration project, to determine whether a short-term (30 days) summer camp experience could contribute to prevention of juvenile delinquency, found that camping induced positive attitudinal change and improved adjustment to school. The project involved 200 adolescent boys from varied social backgrounds who were selected on evidence…

In this article on state-organized programs to reduce rates of juvenile delinquency, programs such as truancy prevention, day treatment, specialized foster care for emotionally disturbed, handicapped, and/or mentally retarded children, community resources projects, and residential treatment are briefly described. (Author/SE)

Provides an overview of the problem of juvenile delinquency in the schools. Also reviews the findings of the Senate Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency and ends with a reminder that American education has overcome seemingly insurmountable problems in other difficult days. (Editor/RK)

The concepts of mutual adaptation and mutual accomplishment are used in an analysis of implementation of a delinquency prevention research and development program. Success from the perspective of both the developer and the participant is described. (DF)

There are probably thousands of programs and courses intended to prevent or reduce violence in this nation's schools. Evaluating these many programs has become a problem or goal in itself. There are now many evaluation programs, with many levels of designations, such as model, promising, best practice, exemplary and noteworthy. "Model program" is…