This monograph was written to help principals and other school personnel explore the issues of adolescent suicide and its prevention. Chapter 1 presents statistics on the incidence of adolescent suicides and suicide attempts. Chapter 2, Causes of Suicide, reviews developmental tasks of adolescence, lists several contributors to adolescent suicide,…

The paper examines the characteristics of black rural families and explores strategies for promoting the parent-school relationship in the education of black rural handicapped children. The importance of families as resources for handicapped children is stressed, although the lack of attention to family and cultural affiliation is seen to reduce…

This document presents the transcripts of a Congressional hearing called to bring attention to the growing problem of suicide. The opening statement of Representative Tom Lantos is presented. Prepared statements of 16 witnesses are provided, including psychotherapists from the Houston International Hospital; a mother and a father of teenage…

This paper discusses the importance of preventive intervention in maintaining the mental health of children. Definitions of prevention are presented, with particular focus on primary prevention, i.e., the lowering of the rate of emotional disorders in a population. The importance of focusing on prevention in childhood is emphasized, and the…

This document provides guidelines for preparing evaluation programs for scholastic improvement. The philosophy underlying assessment and accountability is discussed, with specific reference to the positive and negative aspects of assessment. The design of a curriculum evaluation model is presented, including goal identification, data gathering,…

Reviews current school reform efforts and educational trends such as individualized instruction and humanistic education, criticizing them for contributing toward a potential polarization of society. Concludes that such movements may be overemphasizing a reverence for diversity at the expense of the need to cope with its effects. (EH)

This article addresses itself to the utopian position that schools can help create societies in which men would sooner devote themselves to the good of the community than to their own self-interest, and in which elitism would not exist. (Author/RK)

Author evaluated Jencks' book while focusing his comments on schooling as an instrument for eliminating social and economic inequalities. (Author/RK)

The role of public education in the Communist upbringing of Russian youth is discussed. The importance of inculcating all youth with social awareness is emphasized. (RM)

The Communist Party and the Soviet government are working to improve the training of specialists as one element in the acceleration of progress in science and technology. The role of higher education in this training is discussed. (RM)

United States Educational historiography has been subjected to revision in the last decade. The following article looks at several revisionist assumptions and interpretations in an endeavor to analyse some of the writings which appear as much ideological as historical. (Editor)

While agreeing with Scriven's exposition of the cognitive approach to moral education, the author disagrees with and comments on three points: the argument against developmentalists, morality and rational justification, and the affective aspect of moral argument. (DW)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).