The School Probably has its greatest role to play with the pre-suicidal child, so that the suicidal crisis may be averted before it begins. In the schools this is effected by encouraging a more personalized teacher-pupil relationship--by encouraging extracurricular involvement as an alternative to withdrawal and isolation, and by educating…

Suggestion is made that social studies classrooms become centers for inquiry into student activism and discontent with the educational system. Guidelines for selection of topics for investigation and selection of resource materials are included. (SM)

The article, based on a speech given to a biennial conference of agencies and schools for the blind in France, discusses the roles of governments and schools in providing job training and job opportunities for blind persons. (GW)

The roots of the American testing movement lie deeply imbedded in the American progressive temper which combined its belief in progress, its racial attitudes and its faith in the scientific-expert working through the state authority to ameliorate and control the evolutionary progress of the race. (Author)

A pilot school health project delivering services through an Office of Economic Opportunity-University operated Neighborhood Health Center, has utilized a health paraprofessional, the school health assistant. (Author)

In a summary of the studies presented in this theme issue, it is suggested that educational mythology presents an unrealistic picture of the efficacy of schooling. It should be considered that organization of schools contributes to their ineffectiveness-on the job training if incorporated into present educational structures could produce…

Article is a dialogue between a high school principal and a parent that tries to define the role of the teacher in the educational system. (ML)

Authors present results of their study of teaching interns perceptions of their role and efficacy within a fluid and rather unpredictable school setting. The study was exploratory, attempting to generate good questions rather than test existing hypothesis. (Author/LF)

It is important to view tthe child's school problem in the light of his family's functioning. A change in any member of the family may lead to changes in others, which may not only affect the child but the family as a whole. Presented at The Family Institute of Philadelphia, May 1969. (Author)

The findings in this study clearly and consistently support the view that Western education does, indeed, have a definite effect on value orientations of youth that is largely independent of the test factors mentioned and is not specific to particular sample subpopulation. (Author)