FIVE PAPERS ARE INCLUDED. "EXISTING AND PROJECTED RESEARCH ON INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP APPROACHES IN THE TREATMENT OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY," BY DAVID WINEMAN, DISCUSSED INFORMAL INTERVIEW AS A TECHNIQUE FOR TREATING SPECIFIC EGO MALFUNCTIONS. TWO METHODS WERE SUGGESTED--"EMOTIONAL FIRST-AID" FOR MOMENTS OF GREAT STRESS, AND…

This booklet, a discovery/work text, asks learners to take a careful look at the ways they participate in communication situations, at the form their participation in communication takes, and at the personal and societal consequences of communication. Laboratory activities focus on techniques of communication and on strategies for dealing with…

This publication attempts to keep a portion of the educational community in touch with current topics and trends. The present focus is on sex education, a topic of growing concern in educational circles. The texts of three addresses are presented, with audience questions and speaker responses. Dr. Carlfred Broderick gives an overview of sex…

This book is concerned with examining how the processes involved in decision-making at the political and administrative levels have affected the school systems in Australia over the years since World War I. Schooling is distinguished from education in that schooling may well provide the individual with an introduction to an education, but it is…

The author begins by examining the functions of the school and the basic principles governing the provision of education in the American democracy as a way of providing a framework for analyzing proposals for the reform of secondary education. He then examines proposals for reform. His major focus is on ten proposals made by agencies,…

This report was written as part of the sponsor evaluation of the Educational Development Center (EDC) Open Education Follow Through Program under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. In this study four groups of adults (teachers, aides, administrators, and parents) who are involved with the growth and development of children in the EDC…

This report was written as part of the sponsor evaluation of the Educational Development Center (EDC) Open Education Follow Through Program under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. In this study four groups of adults (teachers, aides, administrators, and parents) who are involved with the growth and development of children in the EDC…

This publication reports the results of an extensive study of the characteristics and needs of secondary education in Western Australia. In its investigation, the committee was instructed to examine educational developments outside Western Australia, to assess the educational needs of Western Australia, and to recommend changes in the future…

This paper describes an adaptation of Dyer's regression model that uses data on individual students in an attempt to isolate the influence of different schools on variations in student achievement growth. This procedure involves comparing the results of a multiple regression analysis of individual student achievement scores and several…

The author views hospitalization of the child as a time of potential crisis for the child and family and as an area where the school can play a significant role in minimizing potential disruption. Topics covered include historical trends in hospital treatment of children, the concept of crisis intervention, parents' reactions to their children's…

The author of this book summarizes his philosophy of teacher education in four chapters. The first chapter, "Some Problems of Teacher Education," discusses the difficulties teacher training institutions have in implementing their new ideas in the schools, and attributes the difficulty to the middle class values and clannishness of teachers, which…

Traditionally-expressed American values include health, personal dignity, freedom of choice, respect for the rights and humanity of others, the right to love and be loved. A big gap exists, in many instances, between values professed and values actually lived in pursuit of "success." Our children know this, and the result has been a sense of…

Two New York City elementary schools were studied in depth to determine what school factors influenced reading achievement. Both schools, one high achieving and one low achieving, had half their student populations receiving welfare and had consistently high or low reading achievement scores. Findings showed that (1) differences in student…

Four papers presented at an all-day workshop at Ohio State University focus on stimulating the physical development of mentally retarded children. Noted in the introduction is importance of cooperation between university training programs and facilities serving the mentally handicapped. Julian Stein discusses the physical and motor development of…

Education as a lifelong process is not the same as schooling measured by years of attendance, the level of academic standards, and one's performance there. Schooling should provide the following functions, which comprise part of becoming educated: socialization, sorting, custody, knowledge and skills training, and encouragement of creativity and…