Describes how one school system selected an elementary school counselor to help facilitate development and initiation of classroom guidance curriculum aimed at helping students communicate about feelings. Discusses communication model on which curriculum is based, describes project's population, reviews curriculum development process, describes…

Discusses the needs of children brought up without parents and the state's care of children in boarding institutions in the USSR. Highlights the establishment and accomplishments of the Soviet Children's Fund which was set up to assist these children. (RJC)

Describes a Head Start/IBM Partnership project which integrates computers into the preschool curriculum. Discusses two of the software packages and the interest of parents and staff in the project. (RJC)

Aside from promoting school choice and easing regulatory restraints, the federal government's role seems limited to continuing Chapter 1 and the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. "First Generation" federal programs are a poor match for the problems afflicting urban schools. A new federal strategy is needed to stimulate local planning and…

Examines etiological factors associated with delinquent and nondelinquent strategic styles from a clinical sociological perspective. Describes intervention model for rebalancing the strategic styles of youth. Discusses diagnostic, prognostic, and prescriptive stages of intervention, utilizing case material. (Author/BH)

Young adults without a college education and their families are suffering declining economic status and diminished opportunities. Real incomes of males aged 20-24 years fell 25 percent between 1973 and 1986. Inspired by time-tested alternative paths to work and learning recommended by Howard Gardner, the Grant Commission on Work, Family, and…

Issues a call to action for educators concerned with African American students' education. Depicts the undemocratic, unjust features of urban children's surroundings and dispels some common misconceptions. City schools can become palaces of learning. Whereas education can open doors, minds, and possibilities, schools seem overly concerned with…

Argues that there is no single strategy, institution, or discipline that can create the changes needed to reduce violence in America. Preventing violence requires long-term commitments, a comprehensive set of strategies, and new partnerships combined and focused on prevention of, not responses to, youth violence. (GR)

Presents the history and focus of the Urban Community School (UCS), an alternative community school in Cleveland, Ohio. Highlights innovative programs to address such issues as racial diversity, alternatives to violence and gender bias. Discusses funding sources in terms of UCS' growing budget and sliding scale tuition rates. (BCY)

Cluster-analytic technique classified 189 rural adolescents according to career indecision type as measured by Career Decision Scale. Resulting three-cluster solution described types of career indecision experienced by adolescents in early exploration stage. Clusters span continuum that includes tentatively decided-crystallizing preferences,…

Urban academic excellence is usually reflection of culture of success, created within stable, supportive family that places highest value on love and education. Self-leadership can help urban youngsters avoid high-risk behavior, defer immediate gratification, enjoy solitude and reflection, and resist going along with the crowd. Urban…

Describes the Student/Sponsor Partnership (SSP) in New York. Businesspersons pay part or all of the tuition for disadvantaged students from zoned innercity public high schools to attend private innercity schools, most of which are Catholic. Examines the program's growth, sponsor recruitment, and success. (LAM)

Nation-building, partly through systems of schooling, has done more to debase than improve rural circumstances. Rural education needs a logic of improvement that differs from that applied so far. Some sources are suggested that might help in the development of real rural educational improvement. (SLD)

Describes the efforts of parish leaders to create a successful youth ministry at St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Marrero, Louisiana. Outlines common denominators of success in dealing with adolescents, and advocates the necessity of a community service component in parish youth ministry. (YKH)

Disagrees with W. Feinberg's criticism of "The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them." Apart from the faults he finds with the book, Feinberg represents an essentialist kind of pessimism about the ability of public education to ameliorate injustices present in American education. (SLD)