Uses the experience of one school district to indicate the number of noneducational services the schools are expected to offer students. Argues that the schools must either be given more resources or asked to do less. (IRT)

The model program described was designed to provide teenage mothers with knowledge and skills needed to successfully cope with caring for their infants. (JD)

Clearly defined goals are essential to the health and effectiveness of organizations. (JD)

Focusing on the institutional benefits of professional development, this article discusses ways institutions can encourage staff members to maintain contemporary knowledge and skill levels and how they can retrain both administrators and teachers to undertake new assignments. (DS)

Two groups of pregnant adolescents were studied using a retrospective analysis of obstetrical summary to demonstrate the relationship of the availability of a comprehensive, program of prenatal care in a public school setting to the achievement of early and continuous prenatal care, and to the minimizing of obstetrical complications. (JMF)

The author suggests making the valuing experience a daily part of classroom life through building children's self-concepts, permitting them to make (and live with) many choices, and encouraging active discussion of real moral situations as they arise. (Editor)

The diversity and proliferation of dance on college campuses makes any forecasts of the next fifty years hazardous. Here certain trends and speculation about how dance and universities will continue their relatively new alliance are examined. (Author/RK)

Draws on a recently completed ethnographic study of an Australian school to present an argument for a renewed commitment to social justice in and through public schooling. Although acknowledging the importance of locally conceived responses to educational disadvantage, warns against the dangers of "romantic localism" and highlights the…

Discusses private higher education as it emerged on a large scale in Eastern Europe after 1989 in the framework of institutional theory. Notes that the original mission of many such universities, challenging and replacing the existing institutional order, has changed, and the new private university, which was once an agent of change, has become an…

Explores the relationship between school composition and characteristics of school process. Investigates their effect on mathematics achievement in Belgian (Flemish) secondary education with multilevel analysis. Confirms important relationships. Finds addition of school composition variables to models with school process variables caused a decline…

Purposes of the study were to determine the type and format of information pediatricians receive from schools regarding diagnosis and treatment of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), their preferences for this information, and their opinions on referral rates and treatment. The majority of pediatricians believe schools overrefer and…

Discuss several research reports on dropout prevention. Focuses on Teachers College, Columbia University, study that identified several reasons for low student dropout in new Coalition of Essential Schools Project (CCSP) schools in New York City, Includes selected references on dropouts and dropout prevention. (PKP)

This reply to Reese's article takes exception to his view of the "common good," since no agreement on common values exists. The reply also rejects Reese's notion that public schools are the only way to promote the common good. (IAH)

Critiques findings and interpretations of an investigation of the role of schooling and urbanization on the acquisition of conservation of physical quantities in Senegalese children. Concludes that the investigation showed a smaller impact of schooling, even in the rural milieu, than a previous study of Senegalese children. (RJC)

Reviews the research on racial prejudice and discrimination in U.S. society and the development of racial attitudes among children, especially preschoolers. Concludes that schools have a serious responsibility to incorporate in the curriculum programs that help students understand cultural differences and develop social skills that will enhance…