Report of a General Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

When there is evidence of severe child abuse or neglect, the school must be the child's advocate and defender. Basically, child advocacy is concerned with identifying and correcting ongoing practices and policies that violate legal and human rights or that are seriously harmful to children. The main targets are the institutional barriers that…

AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS ARE CHANGING THEIR TEACHING METHODS AND THEIR BUILDING DESIGNS. TEACHERS WILL WORK IN TEAMS, AND STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE MORE INDIVIDUALIZED FORMS OF INSTRUCTION. STUDENTS WILL ASSUME MUCH OF THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR LEARNING THROUGH THE USE OF WELL-STOCKED LIBRARIES AND INDEPENDENT STUDY SPACES. HIGH SCHOOLS WILL OPERATE…

AN OVERVIEW OF EXISTING APPROACHES TO THE PREVENTION OF MENTAL DISORDER IS PROVIDED. THE CHILD-CENTERED PROGRAMS DISCUSSED HERE INCLUDE THOSE--(1) WHICH REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF PRE-NATAL AND PERINATAL CASUALTY, (2) WHICH TREAT CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL DEFECTS, (3) WHICH ARE ORIENTED TOWARD THE CHILD-PARENT RELATIONSHIP, (4) WHICH ARE ORIENTED TOWARD…

This policy statement on vocational education was adopted by the State Council of Education on April 10, 1965. Vocational education should provide needed instruction in basic economics, the place of work in human affairs, the organization and management of work in contemporary society, the language and mathematics of work, the organization and…

A teacher reports on the understanding to be gained by visits to the homes of disadvantaged students. Because many parents cannot and do not come to scheduled conferences at school, the teacher visited the families, in this case to explain the availability of a summer school program. This teacher found that the parents of culturally disadvantaged…

Three purposes guided compilation of this final report on the nutritional status of New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama Head Start children: (1) to evaluate the causes of anemia through detailed studies of urban New Orleans preschool children and their mothers, (2) to study the effect of dietary supplementation of school feeding programs upon…

This book is based upon the theory that we use language as a means of organizing a representation of the world--each for himself--and that the representation so created constitutes the world we operate in, the basis of all the predictions by which we set the course of our lives. Chapter 1 discusses this theory; Chapter 2 relates what is relevant…

The main barriers to teenage reading are lack of reading skills, lack of reading materials, and lack of time for reading. The school has often unconsciously contributed to the teenager's not reading by overloading him with homework and providing too many after-school activities. Another important factor that affects the child's attitude toward…

This paper examines the current and changing roles of the school, family and workplace in the development of young people into adults. Due to changes in these institutions, young people are shielded from responsibility, held in a dependent status, and kept away from productive work-all of which makes their transition into adulthood a difficult and…

In this fourth report from The Family Coordinator's Family Life Education Panel, panelists report on interviews with 44 secondary school teachers concerning the nature and the extent of parent education in their schools. (Author)

The use of substance (drug and alcohol) abuse prevention and education is commonly found in the school. In order to determine what substance services are currently being provided, and to see what services appear desirable for implementation in the schools, this assessment was conducted on schools in a two-county metropolitan area. (Author)

This paper has three purposes: (1) to identify the variables that affect the extent and form of the contributions of schools to nationism; (2) to identify the points at which convergences in the profile and outlooks of students occur; and (3) to evaluate the limits of the schools' contributions to nationism. (Author/AM)

Changing philosophies and trends in teacher education are examined. (JD)