Describes the composition of the migrant worker population in the countries of Western Europe and traces developments in government policies regarding control and stabilization of immigration, provision for education and granting of political rights. (Editor)

Countries are increasingly facing the question of transgenerational transmission of trauma from their previous acts of war, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. How countries choose to confront that past has significance on the future course of their society. Truth commissions have been used in many countries as a means to collect accounts of torture,…

A survey of families of 54 children or adolescents with deaf-blindness examined parents' beliefs regarding issues of friendship for their children. The mean age of the children was 11.4 years. Approximately 65 percent of the children attended a special school and 35 percent attended a program within a regular school. Almost 75 percent were…

Research supported by grants from the United States National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. (DD)

Thirty-two outstanding teachers tell their get-acquainted ideas for the first week of school, and give helpful first of the year activities. (Editor/GB)

Authors explore the increasing use of minority group members in network television programming. (Author)

Black students categorized 50 situations describing black-white interaction according to advisable social distance. Findings indicate one's attitudes are related to one's reference groups and to the actual interaction situations encountered. (JB)

The Laboratory School-Teacher Education Module, Western Regional School Desegregation Project of the University of California at Riverside was designed to help a select group of teachers find some of the answers in solving problems of school desegregation. (SB)

The changing emphasis on employment in corrections will not by itself solve the problem of reintegration of the ex-offender into society; meaningful jobs with career opportunities must be available. This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

The central purpose of mainstreaming is to integrate handicapped students with nonhandicapped peers. It is the teacher's responsibility to foster positive and constructive interactions between handicapped students and their peers. Three ways of organizing constructive peer interaction are: (1) cooperation; (2) competition; and (3) an…

Examines several dimensions of adolescent suicide, including theories of suicide, methods of assessing lethality, and methods of counseling the suicidal person. (Author/GC)

Evaluated a causal model of life satisfaction by using four data sets with sample sizes ranging from 961-3,996. The proposed structural model fit the male and female samples and results were replicated across the four data sets. No systematic sex differences were found in terms of structural parameters. (Author/RC)