Outlines standardized excuses offered by administrators resistant to change, and offers alternative solutions'' to counter the excuses. (SP)

How a ninth grade class changed its attitudes on atomic warfare and became able to recognize their own attitudes. (SP)

Shows how the social judgment theory can be used by classroom teachers to reduce student racial prejudice. (RL)

Reports the results of a schoolwide intervention technique aimed at changing some key attitudes of students identified as inhibitors. (FL)

Concludes that those who view the sixteenth annual Gallup Poll of public attitudes toward public schools as indicating a general willingness to finance school improvements may be right, but that if public's attention is not quickly called to the fact that more dollars are needed to improve schools, the urgency generated by the poll may be lost.…

Suggests coping strategies for dealing with the anxieties caused by unfamiliar technologies. (HOD)

Major theories of attitude change are explained: stimulus-response and reinforcement theory, functional theory, social judgment theory, and consistency theory. These theories are applied to the problems of influencing staff toward implementing a program of moral education. (Author/SJL)

Special educators cannot afford to alienate regular teachers, for to do so is perhaps to win the battle and gain a few minor concessions for specific exceptional students, but lose the war in terms of teacher receptivity to mainstreaming. Change should be gently nurtured rather than abruptly forced. (Author)

Concludes that inservice training is important in promoting positive teacher attitudes toward mainstreaming. (FL)

Compares youth attitudes on sex and those of their teachers and the manner in which the two can be reconciled. (RK)

Provides 10 tested inservice activities designed to help teachers examine their attitudes and values in the areas of mainstreaming and special needs students. (SJL)

It is suggested that the most desirable approach to combatting the smoking problem is to prevent youngsters from beginning to smoke, rather than prescribing treatment for them after they have become steady smokers. A program, which uses peer models, is described in this paper. (Author/KC)

In comparison to a group in White, middle class schools, the Pupil Control Ideology Inventory (PCI) indicated that student teachers in ghetto-type schools were more custodial even before their student teaching. The supervising teacher was not a major factor in attitude change. (SJL)

Presented are two group activities designed to raise consciousness and awareness of sexism. Activity I, the Sex Role Autobiography, allows participants to examine specific aspects of their own personal histories. Activity II, the Sexism Box, consists of small group study of sexist manifestations in our society, such as advertisements. (Author/SJL)