Intended primarily for teachers, this book of 17 readings is an attempt to provide a brief, descriptive overview of some of the complexities of the drug abuse problem. The readings are as follows: "Student Drug Use" by Helen H. Nowlis; "Recognition of the Drug User for Enforcement Agents, Teachers and Others" by William D. Alsever; "Glossary of…

This report includes the papers presented at the Colluquium and the responses to these papers. The papers dealt primarily with the most critical and urgent problems involved in equalizing opportunity for the minority/poverty groups in the United States and include: "Educational Opportunity and the Organization of Higher Education," by Warren W.…

Nine papers concerning various aspects of diagnostic and resource teaching deal with the impact of crisis-resource teaching on the Falls Church, Virginia public schools, the role and requirements of the diagnostic teacher, the effectiveness of resource rooms for children with specific learning disabilities, basic problems in diagnosis, an overview…

The collection of readings deals with teaching and managing both emotionally disturbed children and children who are in a state of emotional disturbance or conflict due to external factors. The readings in the first chapter, selected from fictional and non fictional literature and other sources, illustrate how it feels to be emotionally disturbed…

This essay discusses testing of the disadvantaged and the possibilities for new approaches to the problem. The black community's resistance to testing and the legal implications of employment and educational discrimination which results from testing are discussed. The objections to testing the disadvantaged are reviewed. At the end, it is hoped…

The Systems Theory of families conceptualizes not only the interaction between family members but also the interaction between families and other systems, such as schools. This paper has given a brief review of the concepts and some basic techniques. Clinical examples have been used to show the relationship and application to school difficulties.…

The meanings of rural development and the impact on development of rural employment and labor problems are discussed. The influence on the interaction of rural development and rural employment and labor problems of the following are considered: the objectives of rural development in a particular country or region, objectives which are not…

Problems concerning the decision to terminate the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin and the effects of termination on the Menominee Indians are discussed in this book. A brief history of the Menominee is presented which covers the enactment of termination in 1961; the resultant conversion of the former reservation to county status; and the…

Comments from community leaders in Pittsburgh concerning health issues point out some of the major examples of the kinds of concerns and suggestions for action voiced in the University-Urban Interface Program study on Pittsburgh goals. Quotations from the questionnaire administered by the goals committee also illustrate the kinds of things which…

The U. S. Office of Education's National Drug Education Training Program, which began as a limited and terminal one-year effort is assessed. The basic purpose related structure of the information collection and analysis process made it possible to provide information that had multiple uses in management of the program. The fundamental question at…

The recurrence of problems in connection with research and development (R and D) activities supported by the Audio-Visual Center of Indiana University led to the development of a proposed control system. This paper lists those problems and examines the assumptions which must be met by the control system--that the Center will support all types of R…

Population trends, curriculum, staffing demands, and new methods of financing education are placing the small school in an increasingly precarious position. The purpose of this paper is to submit data showing that 68% of Iowa schools face a serious dilemma. Declining rural populations could reduce by half the enrollment in at least half of Iowa's…

Reported were two experiments which investigated, respectively, the maintenance of appropriate classroom behavior in children with behavior problems following treatment in an experimental classroom and cross situational consistency and generalization of treatment effects. In the first experiment followup performances of two groups of five subjects…

The short manual designed for teachers of the handicapped focuses on management of individual behavior in the classroom and briefly explains principles of behavior change. Five basic steps in management are explained to be specification of problem behavior, counting the occurrence of the problem behavior, changing the problem behavior by…

In 1968 a telephone service called Hotline began operation in Los Angeles. The concept was planned and implemented by a committee of various community representatives in association with the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles. The Children's Hospital Hotline is one of 300 existing throughout the country, with a…