The article examines the special role that a school provides in an overall treatment experience and in the personal growth of a patient living in a therapeutic community. (Author/NQ)

Three rationales for affective, school-based prevention activities are to: (1) deter or lessen self- and socially-destructive behavior; (2) enhance cognitive development; and (3) promote maximum total growth, health, and development of each individual. (Author/MJB)

If American education is to be improved by increasing the impact of theory and research on schooling, then the initiative for change is going to have to come from the major side of the joint enterprise, schools. (Author)

The central concern of this essay is the role that contextual considerations play in understanding and evaluating the past. (MM)

The author maintains that educating students in the use of discretionary time is an important enough social goal to merit mandating the achievement of discretionary time skills in the schools. (GW)

Recommends the integration of death education into the K-12 curriculum at several points, with involvement of multiple school personnel (counselors, teachers, etc.) and preparation of teachers through preservice or inservice training. (NKA)

Summarizes current understanding of anorexia nervosa and bulimia (clinical symptoms and outcome, prevalence and risk factors), offering suggestions for the primary prevention of these disorders at the individual, family, and community levels, and emphasizing prevention in the schools. (Author/KS)

Reports on a study of private career schools in Virginia. States that the study was designed to gather objective data about the role of the private career school in providing postsecondary training. The study results were to inform policymakers and the public. (CH)

The field of education is spending too much effort on managing the schools and too little on redirecting student self-expression away from violence and destruction and toward self-understanding and self-development. (MSE)

Appropriate musical experiences for children are suggested. School music programs are discussed. (MT)

The crisis of legitimation in education is explored in this article. This crisis stems from educational dysfunctionality, a social formation where apparatuses of socialization are not harmonious to the culture, and conflicting aims of liberal and democratic ideology. (DF)

Discusses issues complicating the message of alcohol education, including the ambivalent nature of alcohol itself, personal uncertainty about the effects of alcohol, and moral issues. Suggests that the schools may be too involved in alcohol education and risk losing credibility with students. (JAC)

Focusing on the Netherlands, argues that schools should provide foreign students with every opportunity to become integrated into mainstream language and culture. Holds that it is not the role of government (or schools) to maintain the distinct minority culture which formed the child's early indentity. (GC)

The article discusses existing models of vocational assessment of disabled students in school settings, specifically the vocational evaluation center model, the curriculum-based model of vocational assessment, and the comprehensive model of vocational assessment. (CL)

The Paraprofessional Outreach Program shows parents more effective ways of managing behaviors and teaching new skills to their disabled children. The program uses as paraprofessionals other parents of developmentally delayed children living at home. A 10-day training process for parent trainees focuses on such topics as goals of community…