Presents a short quiz for American Personnel and Guidance members to test their current legal knowledge concerning abortions for minors, drug searches, and student conduct. Correct answers are given and discussed, and legal precedents are cited. Suggests ways for counselors to keep abreast of current laws. (Author/JAC)

Grade 10 and 12 students from single-sex and coeducational schools were surveyed, comparing their perceptions of school emphasis on scholarship and achievement affiliation and nonacademic activities, and control and discipline. Coeducational schools were perceived to enjoy an advantage in social-emotional needs and to minimize regimentation and…

Examines issues relating to children's legal rights that have developed over the years. Suggests that current confusion about children's rights can be removed by carefully distinguishing between the rights of all persons, including adolescents, and those rights granted to adults to enhance their capacity to exercise concordant responsibilities.…

Concludes that White student teachers in predominately Hispanic schools were more concerned about curriculum implementation and teaching methodology than about problems relating to cultural variation. (FL)

Describes the advantages of an ecological and active approach to classroom management, presents an analysis of how such an approach might be developed, and discusses several issues which need to be addressed in order to improve classroom management. Twenty-nine references are listed. (Author/CHC)

To achieve excellence in teacher education and in its professional contributions, teacher education must become knowledge-oriented. It must also be highly evaluative, adapt to the needs of different groups, and be relevant to the problems of teaching and learning. (JN)

Legal education is on one hand professional education in the traditional sense, and on the other a liberal education. Its ultimate concern is not with students' competence at imitating other lawyers, but with the development of an individual's own capacities, sensibilities, and styles. (MSE)

Analyzed approaches to classroom misbehavior by classroom teachers, and graduate students completing their training in school psychology, using the induction-sensitization model of socialization. Significant differences were noted, with teachers displaying a more sensitizing (punitive) approach to classroom management. A significant…

Kindergarten teachers were more likely to discipline when boys were verbally disruptive, but disciplined girls for disruptive aggressive behaviors. Teachers were physical when responding to boys' disruptions and used verbal and nonverbal behaviors when responding to girls' disruptive behaviors. Girls' questions received longer teacher responses.…

This paper integrates information from several areas regarding the use of discipline in American schools. The material provides a framework for conceptualizing what happens when children misbehave. (Author/MC)

Regular class teachers from Colorado Springs, where mainstreaming has been practiced for several years, comment on its advantages and disadvantages, their need for support, and the emotional and professional demands mainstreaming makes on them. Particular attention is given to the difficulties of handling emotionally disturbed children. (SJL)

Analyzing the serious discipline problems existing in inner-city secondary schools plus teacher and administrator perceptions of it, the author tells educators that they cannot expect to alter the home/school socioeconomic clash which generates the problem, but they can create a positive learning climate which will raise student achievement. (SJL)

Six administrators share their ideas on such things as curriculum change, administrator role, a leisure activities day, career education, and enrollment decline--all in the context of the small school. (JM)

In the past 25 years, educational economists have made a substantial contribution to thinking about problems of resource allocations to education and of returns on education. They still have an important contribution to make in the development of cost and financial analysis and in efficiency studies. (Editor/SJL)

Classroom management a collection of measures by which teachers control the events of a lesson. Research suggests that social behaviors can be learned in the same way as cognitive rules. (Author/JN)