The current status of the United States as an "immoral" society has a direct correlation to the lack of serious attention given to moral education in the classroom. Morality, and what constitutes morality education, is a topic of concern for parents as well as educators. Morality, as a term, incorporates the social, economic, and…

Educating students about character development and responsibility can and should be an integral part of the academic curriculum. This collection contains units of study that were written to exemplify some of the many ways that these themes might be taught in preK-12 Massachusetts classrooms. Using the standards of the Massachusetts Curriculum…

This packet contains lesson plans with real-life service projects that students can do throughout the school year, from September 2000 to August 2001. The lesson plans in the packet provide teachers with flexibility to offer them to students as young as grade 5 and as old as grade 12. The lesson plans, although essentially social studies, service…

This brochure describes the Challenging Athletes Minds for Personal Success (CHAMPS)/Life Skills program that was launched by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1994. The program was created to support the student development initiatives of its member institutions and to enhance the quality of the student-athlete experience…

Describes a mental health program that makes use of teacher-taught materials that do not require extensive preparation by the teachers involved. The program attempts to alter personality through the use of techniques that promote education in mental health and experimentation with group and individual behavior. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to consider the function and the use of lists of objectives prepared by someone other than the learner. (Author)

Analyzes the problems of upper secondary education suggesting that the main concerns be the change from a collective to an individualised form of education and opening up educational institutions to adults as centers for continuous learning. (Author/RK)

This extensive review of research concerned with the nature of effective teacher-pupil interaction furnishes clear empirical support for the principles of progressive education. (Author/JH)

This section presents the varied viewpoints of nine physicians, from the areas of pediatrics, child psychiatry, student health services, and psychoanalysis, on the controversial issue of sex education in the schools. Opinion is divided, and those who do feel positive toward the question urge extreme caution and reevaluation. (CJ)

This article highlights some issues that counseling psychologists at higher education institutions are facing. They include (1) whether to concentrate on one-to-one remedial services or opt for a wider range of student development activities; (2) when to charge fees; and (3) how to avoid staff cutbacks. (PP)

A reanalysis of data from a 1980 Miami University study on sentence-combining in freshman writing courses investigated the role of reading comprehension (measured by the Sequential Test of Educational Progress) as a predictor of growth in writing skills (measured by syntactic and qualitative criteria). (Author/PN)

Teachers have a significant role in the moral development of their students. They can legitimately advocate the rightness or wrongness of certain actions, and they should act as role models in this regard. (CJ)

Proposes curriculum development in school counseling as a possible solution to a number of contemporary problems in the field. Discusses major elements including the need for appropriate materials, research and training to allow counseling to be taught by counseling instructors as a regular school subject. (Author/JAC)

Personality characteristics of dental students as freshmen and seniors were studied, and no significant change was found. The results imply that dental school had minimal effect on students' personal needs, values, and attitudes, making faculty knowledge of these traits essential before admission. (MSE)