Using the results of a survey of members of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) (See related article SE 521 919), factor analysis was used to identify six major areas of research priorities. (CP)

This article is a reaction and response to papers presented at a panel discussion on sex education. The other papers are included in this same issue. (BB)

Post-field-experience opinions of teacher candidates revealed beliefs that (1) characteristics of good and bad teachers lie in the affective area; (2) technical skills are more important than cognitive skills; (3) good teaching is viewed as related to skill in instructional techniques; and (4) poor teaching is more highly associated with affective…

A majority of parents whose children attended segregated schools in a court-ordered integrated school system felt that mixed schools offer better educational opportunities than do segregated schools. (Author)

Attempts to uncover clues concerning the ways people of different orientations responded to incoming information during the 1976 Presidential campaign. (MH)

Expresses the view that health is an individual moral obligation, and that the health of individuals will not be improved via a national health insurance program. (SL)

Shows that the variables "educational level" and "low personal involvement" can predict "no opinion" and "don't know" responses in polls. (RL)

Student responses to a questionnaire indicate a popular hypothesis of human nature, derived from the works of Ardrey, Morris and others, which leads people to expect the worst from their fellows. To avoid negative consequences of this stereotype, these perceptions should be corrected in the introductory anthropology classroom. (Author/GC)

Thought-provoking, independent views on significant issues in education. (Editor)

Two vital requirements for a successful environmental education program, that it be interdisciplinary and that it teach children how to deal intelligently with controversy, were discussed. (Author/RK)

Examines the media's response to Utah Congressional Representative Allan T. Howe's arrest for the misdemeanor charge of soliciting. (KS)

Presents the reactions of a number of people including academicians, activists, poets, schoolchildren, blacks, whites, women, and men to the televised versions of Alex Haley's "Roots". (Author/AM)

Author is concerned with sexual identity as it may be being learned by youngsters (including her youngster) from their TV screens. She is concerned that young people are viewing as natural and normal the presentation of sex on television as a routine, affectless experience in which women are the objects of men's lust. (Editor/RK)

Indicates that a series of television programs succeeded in improving public attitudes toward mental retardation and retarded people. (KS)