Parents at a North Carolina high school were surveyed about their general confidence in the school, their opinions about the importance of specific school functions, and their confidence in these functions. These responses were correlated to measures of their willingness to be involved in the school. (SJL)

Identifies some educational policies that are not separable from legal policies or principles and some that are; raises questions about some others; and speculates about future directions. Urges the development of higher levels of "legal literacy" and suggests that schools of education are the appropriate places to begin. (JOW)

While glaucoma generally strikes those over 35 years of age, awareness of glaucoma should be promoted in junior and senior high school and college by incorporating information into a unit on eye health or chronic diseases. (MJB)

Educator John Dewey believed that education should reflect and influence the structure of the society it serves. The school can free and develop individuals' capacities without respect to race, sex, or economic status, thus helping to insure a culturally plural society. (Author/GC)

Education has proved to be a key factor in the progress made by a small but significant group of Blacks who are rapidly gaining in terms of income and social mobility. It is thus important that society not lessen its commitment to education as a vehicle of social equality. (Author/GC)

Earlier in this century, the schools presented new visions of social possibility and cognitive worlds to conquer. Stripped of these dimensions, the schools will continue to reflect fragmentation and organize conflict rather than integrate new possibilities and enhance learning. (Author/IRT)

A review of the literature does not support the hypothesis that creativity can be taught in the schools. (LH)

The argument most often noted from the Panel on Youth Report is that essential to the transition-to-adulthood period is a youth's participation in work and other nonschool contexts. This article summarizes the criticisms of the suggestion that this youth participation should be fostered institutionally. (Author/RC)

Discussed are the roles of the school and the teacher in formulation of student values, ethics, and aesthetics. Case studies involving values are presented. (Author/DB)

Offers suggestions to help medical schools, so often subsumed in Academic Medical Centers, rediscover their unique reasons for existence and distinguish their core missions from core businesses. Calls for mission-based management and mission-based budgeting and discusses the role of medical education. (SLD)

Challenges attacks against the university in the wake of the terrorist atrocities of September 2001. Discusses teaching the post-9/11 university. Argues that the prevailing campus McCarthyism is a symptom of the crisis of political democracy itself. Offers a series of principles that should be an essential part of university education in the…

Describes program of suicide postvention which provides assistance to the survivors of a suicide. The clinical process of school-based postvention (as developed by Youth Suicide Prevention Services in the Department of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is presented. Includes case presentation of postvention…

Presents analysis of factors leading schools to be significant source of stress to children. Sees debilitating school stress linked to forces that push schools to overemphasize academic acceleration, competition, evaluation, and test-based accountability. Recommendations based on developmental and empirical consideration are presented to reduce…

The Florida National Forum on Health Care drew 75 participants who agreed that schools should be a place for continuing education and a resource for information on community needs for health care. The highest goal is developing a caring, competent generation of children. (SK)

Analyzed data on 437 handicapped infants and toddlers referred for services between 1988 and 1989. Findings provide a realistic view of the type and intensity of services often needed by this age group, frequency of specific handicapping conditions, and types of recommendations made. Findings provide information useful to future planning related…