Analysis of seating patterns in a newly integrated middle school suggests that while race is an important grouping criterion, sex is a more important criterion; and girls show more racial aggregation than boys. Racial aggregation decreased over time in seventh grade, but increased in eighth grade, perhaps due to academic grouping. (Author/MV)

Provides suggestions on how teachers can best manage their classrooms, how they can plan more effective lessons, a few simple procedures for fostering creative thinking and the art of imagining in their students, a look at student behavior, and some tips for keeping track of student skills. (Editor/RK)

Comments on faculty, students, and the future they both anticipate. Attempts to point out justifications in the world and in the background of students for faculty to engage in a learning development program. (Author/RK)

Considers pupils' reactions to the environment produced by open plan designs with particular attention to the influence of noise and distraction as evaluation factors. (RK)

The Education Department of the Regional Children's Centre at Windsor Western Hospital has found several classroom techniques to be extremely effective in handling the school-related problems of adolescents with emotional handicaps. Describes and evaluates those techniques. (Author/RK)

A fifth grade teacher at Germantown Academy in Pennsylvania proposes a three-way report on a student's emotional growth. Parents, students, and teachers combine their opinions about the student's behavior and while learning about the student help him to learn about himself. (RK)

Some of the character education programs that were implemented in American public schools during the first three decades of this century are examined. The educational theory underlying these programs is contrasted to John Dewey's ideas on moral education. (Editor)

Thirty-seven trainable mentally handicapped students and young adults attended a 6-week summer school program designed to foster independent behaviors by permitting students to choose an activity for one free period each day and to follow an individualized schedule. (GW)

Development of the competent self, the interrelationship of psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational change, and the role of the high school counselor were explored with 147 exemplary and marginal students. The impact of counseling was significantly different for exemplary than for marginal students and for students from different race and sex…

A college president comments on several student behavior problems--including excessive drinking, peer pressure, drugs, and morality--and points to some methods for assuring a good "fit" between institutional standards and the behavior patterns of students enrolled. (Author/LBH)

A random sample of 460 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale students surveyed in 1973 indicates that students' self-descriptions on the Clark-Trow typology of academic orientations are moderately associated with their perceptions of the university, with nonconformist types as the most distinct academic orientation. (Author/LBH)

Analysis of student teachers' expressed conceptions of successful teaching (recorded in journals) throughout a year-long field experience suggested that, while the seven stronger and seven weaker teachers recorded similar descriptions of successful lessons, their descriptions of unsuccessful lessons differed. (Author/CB)

Evaluates a model of student interaction with the environment that would help guide the process of program development toward greater congruence. Maps student interaction with the campus environment in a way that shows how students seek fit or congruence. (Author/ABB)

Recommends steps to eliminate fraternity hazing by developing an institutional policy regarding hazing; developing programs designed to educate alumni, active members, and pledges about the harmful consequences of hazing; requiring prior approval of all pledge activities; and enforcing hazing policies strictly, punishing not only individuals, but…

A review of the literature on classroom communication, structure, noise minimization, behavior modification, and cognitive behavior modification indicates that such techniques can help reduce non-attending, non-work-oriented behaviors of mainstreamed hyperactive adolescents. (Author/CB)