This booklet was prepared by the National Action for Foster Children Committee to disseminate information about the plight of foster children, what needs to be done to help them, and how individuals can help. An overview of the current foster care situation is presented followed by brief discussions of: (1) costs of foster care, (2)…

This second updated bibliography lists 79 document abstracts retrieved from the ERIC collection and "Dissertation Abstracts." It includes journal literature covering the defined civil rights of students at the high school and college levels and recent legal pronouncements. (Author)

This report was prepared to provide the board of education of the Los Angeles Unified School District with a general overview of the educational programs and objectives of the district's 75 junior high schools. The report emphasizes the junior high school's function as an educational bridge between childhood and young adulthood. Following a…

This study was initiated because the author believed that the house system in the comprehensive schools of England has elements that could be adapted into many American schools to help personalize education for each student. The house system and its place in the comprehensive school is examined with reference to the general organization of the…

Scholars and educators presented manuscripts on student unrest at two conferences sponsored by the ASCD Council of Secondary Education. The following subjects were considered: (1) the relationship between current and past student unrest topics, causes, and methods; (2) the needs, motives, and aspirations of youth in our technological society; (3)…

Societal reconstruction is necessary for the easing of forces destructive to human development. This is the task which each Student Personnel Worker (SPWer) faces. We must seek to do our part in eliminating these forces and to replace them with constructive ones. SPW was developed to meet this challenge and was innovated as an effort to…

This book is a transcript of a forum involving men who have dealt directly and variously with the problem of student protest. In the introduction, the overall problems are viewed as falling into three general categories: (1) student rights; (2) questions of violence and coercion; and (3) the civil liberties aspects of both. Specific considerations…

These papers present a collective view of campus law enforcement in the seventies, incorporating new ideas and tested formulas for meeting the demands of the current generation of students. Written primarily by practitioners concerned with current unrest and its implications for the future of higher education, the papers express a belief in the…

Client systems are groups of students or citizens with a stake in the institution of education, who depend upon it, and who are motivated to take some action in its regard. Teachers comprise a third system with a professional interest in education. Each system is a complex of subsystems or subgroups with contradictory as well as complementary…

Contributions to this statement on the academic freedom of students were made in 1967 by representatives of the American Association of University Professors, the Association of American Colleges, the National Student Association, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and the National Association of Women Deans and…

The Community-School Relations Workshop was designed to bring about improved relations between school personnel and the community that the school serves. This was done by bringing together parents, students, community representatives and school personnel in order to discuss the educational problems they share and to seek their solution. It was…

The research studied adolescents' opinions of and attitudes toward police. Answers to the following questions were sought: (1) Do sex differences in appraisals of policemen continue into the senior year of high school? (2) Is there a significant relationship between how students perceive police and how they have been treated by policemen? (3) Is…

This updated bibliography lists 92 document abstracts retrieved from the ERIC collection. "Dissertation Abstracts", and the journal literature covering the defined civil rights of students at the high school and college levels, and recent legal pronouncements. (SD)

The primary focus of this study was on differences in satisfaction with school between seventh grade students enrolled in the two junior high schools. One junior high school had made major modifications in its environment, the other maintained a more standard approach to education. A second focus was to investigate the relationship between these…

If there is a significant relationship between attitudes and school performance, there may be a need for an instrument to measure attitudes reliably. Such an instrument could demonstrate the existence of the relationship, predict performance, or diagnose problem attitudes. The Attitude to School Questionnaire (ASQ) was developed as a measure of…