This paper presents the results of a series of surveys designed to determine the attitudes of parents of school-aged children and other adults toward schools and their children's future, with a view toward offering encouragement to beginning teachers. Cross sections of the population were sampled nationwide, throughout the state of Illinois, and…

The North Carolina Advancement School set about to redefine underachievement and to describe underachievers. These three papers report their progress. The first discusses research which emphasizes describing the phenomenon academically, psychologically, physically and behaviorally. Major emphasis was devoted to measuring psychological factors such…

This paper presents observations on the current drug scene. (1) There is a growing reluctance of high school students to examine the drug scene. (2) Students are ignorant regarding many factors of drugs. (3) There is a danger involving the use and abuse of alcohol among teenagers. (4) Younger children are now being added to those sampling drugs.…

The U. S. Army Signal School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, provides military education and appropriate practical training for Armed Forces men and women to prepare them for positions in communications-electronics activities and familiarize them with the application of doctrine, tactics, logistics, and electronic techniques pertinent to the…

The study examined the records of all American Indian children who were in Grade I in 1971-72 in all elementary schools in Nova Scotia to determine the number of these children retained in Grade I. The method was a descriptive survey technique. The total population of Grade I students was 134. The most significant finding was that 96 children of…

The belief that each citizen should have some understanding of the natural world with its complex balances and should accept responsibility for man's influence upon the world serve as the primise for this report. Suggestions offered for comprehensive planning and a statewide approach to environmental education are made on the basis that Alabama…

Four American Cooperative Schools in Bolivia are surveyed in this document in connection with a project to provide inservice development in the form of graduate courses, workshops, and consultantships. The four schools were 1) the American Cooperative School in La Paz, serving children of all nationalities from prekindergarten through grade 12…

The objectives of this study were: (1) to study the present goals and operations of the Banff school in Canada and to approach its unique contributions to the life of the nation, (2) to assess the role the school might play in the future, and (3) to determine the most effective arrangement for governing and support of the school. Most of this…

The articles in this 22nd handbook examine the contributions of industrial arts to high school youth and attempt to place industrial arts in perspective by showing the relationships between the social order and the high school in general, with special emphasis on high school industrial arts programs. Sections of the handbook contain articles which…

This case study reviews the conversion of a State Teachers College that became a State College and ultimately was converted to a Liberal Arts institution. Changes are discussed according to administrative personnel, faculty, administrator role, curriculum, policy and procedures, institutional organization, and educational models. (MJM)

This report presents the problem of school practice and moral socialization in an attempt to transform the issues into a problem for research. Three divisions of study are presented: 1) a rationale for the examination of schooling and moral development, 2) the development of procedures for analyzing the use of explanations, and 3) speculation on…

This abstracted bibliography lists 35 documents retrieved from the ERIC collection, Dissertation Abstracts and the journal literature, covering the defined civil rights of students, and legal decisions in the area of student-school relationships. (CJ)

Suggests that third generation American children have, by and large, lost most of their sense of cultural roots and ethnic identity. A whole new generation of alienated children is confronting the American school system today. (Author/AM)

Discusses the problem of teacher burnout, examining its symptoms, scope, and causes. Suggestions for avoiding burnout are presented including: (1) tips from teachers, (2) sabbaticals, (3) special school programs, (4) help from teacher organizations, and (5) ideas from industry. (JMB)

Objectives of Italian school reform include standardization of the upper levels of secondary school, reform of vocational training, reform of the examination system, and decentralization of educational policy making into local and regional initiatives. (DB)