Presents Life Space Interview (LSI), intervention strategy for use during crisis work with troubled students. Focuses on New Tools Salesmanship, special category of LSI in which interviewer helps student see failed connection between student's intention and behavior. Presents New Tools Salesmanship interview with fourth-grade student who…

Focuses on the educational experiences of Barbara Young, a high school dropout and visually handicapped adult learner, who obtained a General Educational Development diploma and enrolled at a community college, a state university, and finally at a graduate school for a Master's degree in counselor education and research. (DMM)

Describes Life Space Interviewing (LSI) as effective and exciting intervention strategy for use during crisis work with troubled students. Presents teaching LSI from one of Institute of Psychoeducational Training graduates that involves fight between new student and student who is attributed group leader. Following LSI presentation are reactions…

The principal authors of a new book, "Profiling Excellence in America's Schools," state that leadership is the single most important element for effective schools. The generic skills of leaders are flexibility, autonomy, risk taking, innovation, and commitment. Exceptional principals and teachers take their leadership and management roles…

Dr. Jacqueline Fleming, author of "Blacks in College," is interviewed on the process of her cross-sectional research and reaction to her study. Fleming observes that there are pervasive problems for Black college students in White institutions and for Black colleges, and that major integration and retention issues remain unresolved. (AF)