Many schools now bring professional writers in to work with or talk to children, often with impressive results. But what do the writers themselves make of these visits? Here a children's books author pens a wry portrait of a typical classroom encounter. (Editor/RK)

This blood pressure screening program met the goals of (1) detecting and treating asymptomatic hypertension among college students and (2) alerting the university community about high blood pressure. (MM)

Assesses the long-term effects of the May 1968 student riots which took place in Paris on student life in England and in other countries. Interviews two prominent leaders of the period, Rudi Dutschke and Daniel Cohn-Bendit. (Editor/RK)

Although experts in elementary education seem unable to devise wise and productive methods of student grouping, here is one experiment in grouping that is thought-provoking and may provide a more suitable classroom environment for developing harmony in student relationships. (Author/RK)

Poses a tension between a political and a historical interpretation of the exoneration of the Ohio National Guard in the killing of Kent State University students on May 4, 1970. (Author/RK)

Reviews research on how students' response to literature is influenced by teachers' questioning patterns and by students' personalities, cultural backgrounds, cognition, and growth and development. (DD)

Reports a study designed to measure the effectiveness of teaching and learning major economic concepts and concept clusters in high school. Includes findings on student attitudes toward the subject of economics and toward economic issues. (BSR)

Allowed undergraduate students (N=70) to interact for 44 minutes with ELIZA, a computer simulation of psychotherapy, and compared their responses during the first and second halves of the session. Results showed a significant increase in responses in roughly half of the categories. (LLL)

Argues that most anthologies of poetry are discouraging to children and suggests better ways of getting them involved with verse. (HOD)

Evidence suggests that teacher self-concept has an effect upon the development of student self-concept in two of the four dimensions tested. (DMT)

Employing Amitai Etzioni's compliance theory as a theoretical model, this study evaluates application of Etzioni's theory to the influence of public schools on juvenile delinquency, suggesting that the schools exercise sufficient coercive power to evoke alienative involvement among their students and an increasing probability of student…

Research indicates that computer-mediated communication (CMC) is a great motivator of learning for the student (e.g., Gatlin-Watts, Arn, & Kordsmeier, 1998). However, the author's experience communicating with students through the Web indicates very divided student reactions to this manner of communication. In view of a relative lack of literature…