A study of what private business is doing in screening and training beginning office employees indicates a need for closer school-industry cooperation. (JS)

This paper was presented at a meeting of the Health Services Branch, Auxiliary Services Division of Los Angeles City Schools, Hamilton High School, 2955 Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, February 3, 1969.

The fundamental task in revitalizing public education and in fostering teacher professionalism means modifying the basic mandate. Trends in preschool and adult education suggest a need to extend the traditional age range downwards as well as upwards, thus lessening worry about teacher lay-off, half-empty school buildings, and school closures. (BRR)

Johnson's ideas on the role of Black colleges provide both a historic and contemporary perspective to the debate about their purposes. He explored the function, if any, of Black colleges in the race's social and economic survival, as well as its cultural identity, especially after segregation in education was declared unconstitutional. (SR)

The report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform," is criticized for overemphasizing human resource needs and economic utility at the expense of intellectual, moral, and spiritual learnings. Other perspectives on reform in the schools and in teacher education are…

Attitudes of educational planners, politicians, and teachers will have to change radically if systems and institutions are to cope with the explosive problems of unemployment. That alteration must also be accompanied by changes in labour market conventions, traditional salary structures, recruitment and selection procedures, and in social and…

The problems of latchkey children--those who are at home alone after school--are discussed. Schools can help these children by: (1) teaching them "survival skills," such as how to cope with emergencies, younger siblings, and fear; and (2) offering supervised after-school activities. (PP)

An alternative is presented to counter current radical arguments that the schools cannot bring about social change because they are instruments of capitalism. The works of Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Louis Althusser are discussed. Henry Giroux's "Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling" provides an alternative to cynicism.…

Results of a survey of how teachers in Illinois administer medication to trainable mentally retarded children for seizures and behavior disorders are reported. Legal implications regarding school involvement in medication administration are discussed. (PP)

Regarding sex education in the schools primarily as a means of preventing teenage pregnancy creates misunderstanding about the subject and about human sexuality. This approach is likely to: (1) concentrate on junior/senior high students; (2) focus primarily on females; (3) stress biological rather than emotional development; and (4) cause public…

Sex education should be designed and delivered in ways that are suited to the diverse needs, views, and beliefs of the community. Different philosophies and approaches for sex education are discussed, and options for conducting community-based programs are presented which would permit families to choose among alternative approaches. (PP)

Summarizes Quebec's White Paper reforms, i.e., schools rather than school boards are to become the pivot, parents are to become involved in management and control, confessionality to be abolished, universal sufferage to be abolished, school boards no longer intermediary with Ministry, schools to become more pluralist, schools quaranteed 5-year…

Reviews a variety of topics germane to the causes of stress encountered by teachers every day. Discusses the manifestations of stress, the states of stress, and possible stress reduction techniques. (FL)

Argues that tracking students serves the economic imperatives of American society while subverting the values of English teachers. (JL)

Dewey's writings defined the role of educators in society and their ability to influence world peace, international cooperation, the meaning of patriotism, and the role of the social sciences in understanding other cultures. Dewey perceived the job of the educator as teaching basic values of peace and nonviolence as correct social behavior. (JN)