Describes a project in operation for over two years which offers protective intervention for children and group meetings from parents. Suggests the creation of a number of centers to help vulnerable parents of preschool children in an effort to interrupt the circular spread of violence as a family phenomenon. (WY)

Argues merits of a separate department for education in the Federal Government. (JF)

Reports a plan used in Massachusetts whereby school systems purchase the school adjustment counseling services of social workers, with a welfare agency acting in a supervisory capacity. (NH)

The president of Montgomery Ward suggests that educators and business reaffirm their partnerships to find positive solutions to the needs of consumers and youth. (JK)

Discusses why antipoverty programs intended for the really poor usually help only those who can help themselves. Suggests ways of combating the process of creaming the poor." (RJ)

Foster care, in family or group home, has proved a workable alternative to traditional institutional care for retarded children. Role of child welfare agencies is discussed. This paper was presented at the National Conference on Social Welfare at New York in 1969. (Author/NH)

The article originally appeared in The Public Interest, n18, Win 1970. (Author)

Describes the cooperative relationship between the Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth), the Pioneers, and the schools, with specific reference to their mutual responsibilities in the Lenin Year. (JB)

Examines the concept of community development and its implications for various sectors of the education service. (DM)

Discusses the development of three regional interstate compact agencies in higher education. (MK)