This article focuses on the city of St. Louis and Ferguson-Florissant Reorganized School Districts and studies their implementation of desegregation programs. (Author/AM)

The report overemphasizes learning "through" art (art as efficient instrument). It is not really about hte significance of arts in education, but about educational reform with arts instruction as the initial vehicle. Its chief import lies in showing the unfulfilled need for a truly significant study of art, society, and education. (MJB)

A summary is presented of teacher suggestions for a preventative physical education program developed from a summer workshop of teachers concerned with student discipline problems. (MJB)

The author contends that humans are guided by values and principles. He describes a widely accessible and applicable empirically based therapy system. (Author)

This article describes a consultation model. The project's goals are to create educational environments that encourage students to explore a wide range of career and life-style options, to facilitate personal growth for educators, and to facilitate institutional change that will expand options for both women and men. (Author/JEL)

The author examines four critical aspects of the eclectic model of organizational consultation: organizational issues, steps in the consultation process, strategies of intervention, and generic consulting tasks. Examples from one hypothetical consultation case are presented to illustrate each of the four aspects of consulting. Training…

Lists eight criteria necessary for an effective management performance system designed for superintendents and principals, who must face the crisis in education each day. Also provides some guidelines for inculcating strategies for improving management practices. (RK)

Faculty development is seen as both human and organizational development. Underlying issues are discussed, and it is suggested that, properly conceived, faculty development can embody the necessary new techniques within traditional humanistic intentions if reformulated in light of new and changing conditions for colleges. (LBH)

Concludes that exposure of a persuasive message should ideally be of sufficient duration to familiarize the target population, but not too great to cause a "boomerang" effect; when overexposure and/or boomerang effect occurs, a period of nonexposure can sufficiently reduce any overexposure effects. (RL)

Argues that collective bargaining and accountability are compatible rather than mutually exclusive. Lists real and perceived problems relating to the integration of the concepts, and suggests ways to overcome those problems by shifting the locus of bargaining from local school districts to the state level. (Author/JG)

In spite of efforts of India's University Grants Commission to improve the quality of higher education, educational standards in affiliated colleges have remained low. This paper highlights the need for setting up Tertiary Education Centres to deal with the problems of those colleges. (Author/LBH)

Proposes the development of a new social psychology that would be psychological in its data-gathering, in seeking observations and measures on individuals, but would be system-oriented in theory and concepts. It would contribute to economic, political, and sociological issues. (Author/AV)

Discusses the use of a dialectical approach to personality assessment and psychotherapy. Focusing on the concept of change, a dialectical approach would emphasize the person as process, would focus on growth, and would emphasize treatment of clients within the context of other human relationships. (BD)

Two major themes permeate this examination of problems facing the teaching profession today: (1) unrestrained criticism of the teacher education process will result in the destruction of teaching as a profession; and (2) despite the drawbacks, teaching professionals have the desire and power to overcome problems through hard work and cooperation.…

In this article, the three stages of the Values Clarification process (prizing, choosing, and acting) are described and illustrated by strategies which can be used in the counselor's office or the classroom. (JC)