Article examines the extent to which disenchantment with, and detachment from formal aspects of high school status are associated with marihuana use. (Author)

Questions and suggested actions are presented for parents to use in evaluating school operations. Topics include school goals and objectives, teachers' training and effectiveness, and student satisfaction. (FG)

Suggests changes in schools in the Northwest Territories to prevent deculturalization of Canada's native students. Programs should recognize their special abilities and needs and include special training for staff members. (JAC)

Through institutional and faculty actions, secular private schools may unwittingly reinforce the wrong values in their students: elitism, selfishness, and smugness. Educators should remember to live by the moral values they profess. (SJL)

Describes the program at Alabama's Huntsville Alternative School, where severe behavioral problems are dealt with by promoting positive self-concepts in students through acceptance, trust, warmth, concern, firmness, consistency, humor, and the meeting of human needs as identified by Abraham Maslow. (Author/PGD)

Correlates 138 elementary school children's views about the purposes of school to their styles of reward allocation: academically motivated students allocated rewards equally to two hypothetical performers who had unequally helped a teacher perform a manual chore, while socially motivated children allocated rewards in an equity (performance-based)…

Problems associated with the transition from secondary schooling to higher education are assuming increasing significance as demand for places slackens. Student entry characteristics and adjustment difficulties are discussed in relation to choice of course and institution. Possible methods for dealing with transition problems are discussed.…

Factors that affect learning are concisely packaged in this article. It is then pointed out how the school principal as an educational leader can influence the improvement of learning. (Editor/RK)

Independent schools must regain a sense of union in an underlying purpose and reaffirm their commitment to attaining excellence while resisting the goals that are simpler and easier to measure. (Author/RK)

Discusses important issues and problems related to assessment of young children. A review of literature identifies major trends in assessment in early childhood education. There is an increased need to develop teachers' skills in both selection and interpretation of appropriate formal and informal assessment techniques. (Author)

Autonomous or individual study has indisputably become an objective of great importance for European education. Attempts to explain the reasons for this widespread interest. (Author/RK)

Procedures suggested here represent attempts to deal with potential problems of classroom control by making teacher expectations clear, by developing strategies in advance to deal with potential trouble spots during the class hour, and by reacting quickly to subtle changes in students' behavior. (Author)