A study examined school factors and teacher factors contributing to primary grade students' reading growth and reading achievement. It investigated school and classroom variables in effective schools as compared to moderately effective and less effective schools and also looked at classroom practices of accomplished teachers as compared to less…

This continuing education module contains three units that describe the role of schools in dealing with psychosocial and mental health problems that interfere with students' learning and performance. The units are: (1) "Placing Mental Health into the Context of Schools and the 21st Century"; (2) "Mental Health Services and…

This resource guide is intended to assist schools in developing protocols for responding to critical incidents. It focuses on proactive plans to deal with the traumatic aftereffects of a critical incident which affects some or all of the members of a school community. The guide outlines a generic protocol which includes steps to be undertaken in…

Describes the elements of an adequate educational setting for emotionally disturbed children. (Author/DR)

Reviews the conflict over student-sponsored commercial enterprises on legal and philosophical bases, illustrated by several court cases. Considers nonjudicial challenges to such activities and proposes guidelines colleges can follow to minimize conflict. (JAC)

A mother's experiences in finding services for her deaf daughter in a small town are described. It is suggested that parents must be assertive in stating their child's educational needs to school personnel, who must see the impairment in the context of the whole family. (SEW)

Parents should understand their ethnic background because it can influence parenting styles and prove a source either of strength or of weakness. Parent education activities in New York City are discussed, and advice about how schools can encourage ethnic acceptance is given. (PP)

Compares American educational problems to Japan's universally high literacy and achievement rate, positing that Japan's success is related to cultural homogeneity, strong school discipline, and strong motivation to succeed at all levels. Suggests that some Japanese educational strategies can be adopted in American schools, despite great…

Maintains that dropping out of school is more usefully interpreted in social structural terms rather than as an individual psychological event. Reviews research findings to support the argument that schooling reproduces a class-based society by legitimating the social role of the dropout and allocating students to that devalued status. (Author/MJL)

Few intellectual and social movements of this century have had so pervasive an influence on the theory and practice of American education as the mental hygiene movement. This movement substantially altered ways of thinking about education, in particular, the school's responsibility for children's personality development. The movement's history is…

Offers four suggestions schools can use to help young people understand and cope with stress. (FL)

Discusses developmental, values clarification, actionist, and rationalist strategies in moral education and the problems associated with each strategy. Explores the question of whether schools should offer moral instruction. Outlines criteria for selecting a moral education program and emphasizes that moral issues raised in the classroom are…

The importance of teaching consensus values to minority group children is stressed. Public educators are urged to spend instructional time in preparing youth to share in American society and culture and in teaching mastery of the skills necessary for success, rather than to concentrate on developing cultural pluralism. (PP)

Students attending Southeastern Louisiana University and Abilene Christian University (Texas) responded to questions about the amount of sex education they had received and their views about the importance of and place for sex education. The significance of a religious background for attitudes about sex education is discussed. (PP)