A review of the literature and a discussion with experts provided the data supporting 12 generalizations about success factors in urban elementary schools. Three clusters were particularly important: leadership, teaching personnel, and curriculum and instruction. (IRT)

On the assumption that story thema exphasizing achievement motivation might have potential for influencing readers' values over time, stories randomly selected from 11 high interest low vocabulary series for low achieving junior high students were examined for n-achievement thema. (Author/SJL)

Discusses 29 books popular with 16- and 17-year-olds and their treatment of work: kinds of work, sexual and racial representation, work attitudes, work values, and career education concepts. Concludes that popular books present a positive attitude toward work. (JOW)

Purpose of study was to discover what problems undergraduate students have with relative pronouns on several levels of learning and also to see how relative pronouns are taught by examination of French grammar textbooks. (BK)

A content analysis of two selected population education curriculum materials, one representative of advanced nations, the other of developing nations: "Population, Environmental-Ecological Education Project" (Missouri State Department of Education, 1973) and "Population and Family Education" (Unesco Regional Office for Asia,…

Analyzes some problems that can make beginning basal stories difficult for young readers to understand and offers suggestions for ways teachers can help alleviate the problems. (FL)

Examines whether guidelines by publishing houses that call for more equitable treatment of the sexes have made a difference in textbooks. (FL)

Presents an interview with Jack L. Copeland, President of Training Media Distributors Association on training and the copyright-piracy problem. Discusses video piracy and other unauthorized uses of materials in relation to the new copyright law. (CSS)

Analyzes the rhetorical practices and the theoretical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Concludes that he regarded orations as practical instruments and that the judgment that he was disinterested in persuasion is untenable. (JMF)

Analyzes 13 daytime serial dramas broadcast during 1977 for the occurrence and distribution of health-related conditions and resultant deaths, according to age and sex. (JMF)

Analyzes newspaper readers' evaluations of specific categories of newspaper content, including four advertising categories. Shows that reader demand for advertising was lower than for news, although most readers desired the same amount or more advertising in their newspaper. (RL)

An assessment of how Mahatma Gandhi and Mao Tse-tung were able to succeed as mass communicators without the use of modern means of communication. (PD)

Examines the themes of the war front news reported in certain South Korean and United States newspapers during the first 16 days of the Korean War; attempts to determine significant differences in the themes of war front news between the Korean and United States papers. (Author/GT)

Argues that the two most common interpretations of the Meadian "I" in George Herbert Mead's theory of social self have failed to place the concept within the context of Mead's philosophy of social behaviorism. Stresses also that Mead's theory of social behaviorist interpretation is applicable to sociological inquiry when it is properly…

An analysis of issue-oriented and event-oriented social issues stories in eight major daily newspapers revealed that 61.3 percent of all sentences analyzed were not attributed to a source. (GT)