Author proposes educational guidelines that will allow teachers to introduce new and progressive ideas while avoiding the protests of traditionalists. (RK)

In this article the School (representing all levels) speaks out on its problems. A contrast of views is developed between the School and Joe, a typical American male of 47 years, alumnus, taxpayer, voter and community policy maker. (Editor/MB)

Maintains that, of the two theories considered for accounting for the increased schooling required for employment, the technical-function theory (reflects demands for greater skills due to technological change) and the conflict theory (imposition of cultural standards for selection for jobs), the latter theory is more strongly supported. (RJ)

The author summarizes the effects of widespread innovation and experiment in curriculum and methods of instruction and concludes that the educational process is becoming increasingly individualized. (Author/JB)

A sociologist discusses why vandalism and hostility have come to progressive, innovative" suburban high schools. (Author)

If human dimensions can be reintroduced into classroom learning as a primary educational function, the learner will become personally involved and his continuing learning will affect a change in his behavior. (IR)

Discusses student motivational factors crucial to successful cross-cultural schooling; a preprint of a forthcoming National Conference on Research in English pamphlet. (Editor/SW)

An attempt to provide in a high school a community where personally and socially worthwhile activity arises organically from the physical-social-psychic-spiritual environment. (Author/EA)

Reprinted from "Parent's Magazine." (EL)

Findings suggest that the socioeconomic status of the home background from which students come plays a part in the determination of educational progress. Scores on the Home Index, a measure of this background, relate significantly to both high school graduation and college attendance. (Author)

Too many artitects of schools and of educational programs have stood outside the interactional worlds of children and adults and attempted to legislate their own interpretation of right and proper conduct. Militants and troublemakers challenge the school's legitimacy as a socializing agent. (DM)

The role of the educational system in the formation of particular social attitudes and values is discussed. Three positions taken by educators during the depression are examined: 1) the indoctrination of students to support the status quo; 2) indoctrination of students to support a defined future society; and, 3) training which will enable…

This paper sets forth a model of the school as a social organization within an institutional framework and relates its organizational characteristics to its age- grade structure." (Author)

A project is described which provides and evaluates intensive counseling services for those students in the Altoona (Pa.) Area Senior High School who find themselves gravitating toward behavior patterns which, if continued, might lead to disciplinary interruption or termination of their high school experience. (Author)