Provides guidelines for advisers of school publications to follow in order to work well with administrators and produce a successful newspaper, yearbook, or literary magazine. (DF)

Results of a survey of Canadian higher education institutions concerning the application and selection procedures, forms of admission, regional variations in admission practices, and performance of non-matriculated, special status adult students are reported. (MSE)

Discusses the issue of school discipline problems and offers some tentative solutions to the problem. (HOD)

Surveyed chief student affairs officers at 264 colleges and universities regarding the administration of judicial affairs and judicial policies and procedures. Results showed 88 percent of the schools did not have a judicial affairs office. Over half felt no change in judicial programs was needed. (JAC)

To help educators deal with controversial issues, the references in this list of resources address the types of objections frequently raised about instructional materials, ideas for school policy, the position statement of a professional organization on the teaching of controversial issues, teaching suggestions, and related legal considerations.…

Individuals making the transition from student to teacher must be prepared to undertake a new and varied role. Beginning teachers must adjust to the new environment while learning as much as possible about the school and its policies. (DF)

This article describes 12 major components--grouped into philosophical, organizational, and operational categories--that should be included in planning and initiating an effective school discipline system. (Author/JW)

Many major studies dealing with high schools agree that schools must press for higher performance standards in basic skills. These studies disagree on the role that vocational education ought to play in public schools. The author offers a checklist of what vocational educators should do to increase their role in shaping new educational policies.…

Parents and others in the community have a significant stake in the schools of the public. Their thoughts on the curriculum and the selection of texts must be given serious consideration by the school boards and professional educators. (Author/RK)

Explores the educational and legal questions extending from the judiciary's intervention into the student disciplinarian relationship, among them, the post-Tinker developments in student discipline procedures are traced. (Author/AM)

Argues that the tradition culminating in Jencks work is better seen as policy research than as an answer to the sociological problem of the effects of schools on students. A tradition of radical criticism of schools is more ideological but offers an implicit theory of the effects of schooling that is of great sociological interest. (Author/AM)

To help prevent drug and alcohol abuse the schools should develop a comprehensive health education program that deals with human feelings, human experience, and factual knowledge. (JD)

This document is the seventh edition of the California Articulation Number (CAN) System guide, which was revised in 2002. Some of CAN's goals are to help community college students transfer smoothly to four year universities, promote the development of a common method of course identification within each segment of public postsecondary education,…

This essay examines the influence of a mandatory school-uniform dress code on academic achievement and discipline infractions. In addition, student gender and type of school district were compared to show the influence of this policy. Only schools that implemented a mandatory school-uniform policy in 1996 and had data for discipline infractions…

Ways in which school leaders can establish "safe schools" are detailed in this guide book. It offers suggestions on how to involve students, parents, law enforcement officials, business and community leaders, and other concerned citizens. This resource guide is designed to help administrators accomplish five goals: (1) assess the school climate by…