In a time of financial retrenchment, staff development involving factors external to the college (consultants, travel, workshops) must be reduced, yet staff development has been identified as the challenge to be met during the current decade. For the past year, Hagerstown Junior College (Maryland) has been operating an Instructional Clinic (IC)…

The author reviews the history of education in America from the 1950s when plenty of money and public support for the schools was available, through the late 1970s when Americans no longer have complete faith in education as the means of solving social problems and when resources are increasingly scarce. Given the course of the last two decades,…

This paper presents a framework for conceptualizing the different ways in which instructions in experimental tasks may be misunderstood. Five possible types of misunderstandings are identified and discussed: (1) misunderstanding of a particular term in the instructions; (2) misinterpretation of a task because the instructions are difficult to…

A case of a problem boy is presented. The author then describes how the school psychologist dealt with the case successfully by helping the parents and the teacher modify their approach to the boy. (SE)

The article describes family and other personal problems which therapists can help underachieving college students to understand in order to deal with their success avoidance. (CD)

Notes that the important issues in current bilingual education in the United States are of two major sorts. One of these is concerned with the operation of existing bilingual programs, and includes problems of adequate teaching staff and proper integration of programs. The other deals with the perceived aims and purposes of bilingual education…

As the reward-and-punish psychology of leadership becomes less effective and the problems besetting educational institutions mount, professional educators have exciting opportunities to engage in more democratic, effective, and rewarding leadership. Specific suggestions are made on what leaders can do to bring about more spirited leadership.…

In discussing the problems of evaluating Canadian bilingual immersion programs, six related aspects are separately considered: (1) the research design, (2) the students tested, (3) the nature of the tests used, (4) the methods of analysis employed, and (5) the interpretation of findings. (Author/SJL)

The question of whether the selling of art by a private nonprofit art association violates the provisions of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 is considered. Revenue rulings of 1971 and 1976 suggest that any sale of art may render the organization ineligible for tax exemption when private interests are benefited. (JMD)

Discusses problems of rising unemployment among youth and suggests that shcools develop curriculum to educate young people about job-seeking skills, mechanics of collecting benefits, impact of unemployment on family life, alternative community activities, and other ways of bolstering self-image. (AV)

An attempt was made to place 58 severaly disabled epileptic people in competitive employment. (Author/BD)

The last 13 of 32 exercises of a course designed to give a wide range of skills in deductive, inductive, and indirect methods of proof in geometry are presented. (MP)

Extensive analysis of all the data available from the United States Census bearing on changes in the American family from the Second World War to the present reveal a progressive fragmentation and isolation for the family in its child rearing role. Suggests the necessities for complete child development, examines the plight of single parents, and…

This discussion demonstrates that in some instances what is actually reported as inappropriate student behavior may emanate from teacher-related biases, idiosyncracies, insensitivities, and perhaps teacher inadequacies. (Author/AM)

Explores the problem of violence in the schools, relates the research, shares historical viewpoints, and examines the peculiar difficulties of the schools by utilizing interviews with the chief of security and five junior high and two senior high school principals in the Baltimore City public schools. (Author/RK)