This study sought to determine if the viewing of a film depicting issue-oriented teaching situations, with subsequent discussion and personal evaluation, could alter attitudes about teaching held by preservice teacher candidates. (MJB)

The present organization and function of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education is examined; a major reexamination and overhaul of accreditation, including its fundamental purposes, standards, and processes is suggested. (JD)

It is possible to devise ingenious means for adapting basic methodological techniques to meet exigencies of the research situation while still meeting the requirements for the collection of valid data. (Author/AM)

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) is now before Congress for review and reenactment. This article examines previous CETA program efforts and the new provisions intended to target jobs and training to the most disadvantaged in terms of income and length of unemployment. (Author/AM)

Focusing on conservation in the residential area, the author describes five ways in which conservation can be encouraged or enforced: (1) higher prices, changed pricing structures, and/or taxes on energy to discourage use; (2) consumer education; (3) tax incentives and subsidies to promote installation of energy-saving equipment; (4) rationing;…

The dual-career family is an emergent family form in our society that offers new sources of satisfaction and new types of problems for families. Suggestions are made for strategies practitioners can use to assist dual-career families in coping effectively with the constraints and problems of their life-style. (Author)

Kinetic Psychotherapy consists of young children's games which facilitate interaction and mobilize feelings. When used as a mode of family therapy, this process enables the therapist to catalize and observe change in the family's patterns of communication, interaction, and level of functioning while involving members in a relatively nonthreatening…

Suggestions are offered to reduce the level of cerebral pollution emitted by the television. (MJB)

Discusses various topics such as the role of leadership of the head teacher, the needs of the school, the organization of teaching (vertical grouping, team teaching) and changes within a British school. (Author/AM)

An exploratory questionnaire identified some of the educational, emotional, and social problems afflicting women students in Stanford University's schools of medicine, law, and business. Various methods for combatting these stresses were developed by the Office of the Dean for Women Students in cooperation with the female students themselves. (MJB)

Offers a theory of academic change which links pressures for change with a policy decision to change. The process involves conflict and interest group pressures followed by power exertion, administrative intervention, faculty leadership and compromises negotiated through administrative leadership. The model is compared with alternative models of…

This paper presents three practical research strategies for facilitating social change in the black community: 1) evaluation, 2) theory-testing, and 3) education and training. These are discussed in relation to the following three variables: researcher relation to the organization, intervention strategy, and the utilization of data. (Author/AM)

The third person singular pronouns are either neuter or sex linked even in situations where they should be neutral. When the sex is unknown then a substitute, for example "heesh" should be used. The present paper examines several of these awkward words and makes recommendations for substitutes. (Author)

Among the suggestions made are the following: bussing students on a voluntary basis, integrating teachers as well as students through the voluntary transfer plan, and bussing of kindergarten children only to avoid uprooting students from their established classrooms. (Author/AM)