The suggestions offered in this article are about what to do with students who cheat and to discuss in a deeper way than usually occurs the various possible consequences of cheating and to compare them with the advantages of cheating. (Author/RK)

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)

Because of expanded social responsibilities and the increasing "rights" of disruptive students, the effectiveness of schools is being sabotaged, believes the author. He suggests that the disruption of a classroom be considered a serious infringement on the rights of students who wish to be educated. (Editor)

As the cuts continue in Britain, the author reports on the greater crises facing New York schools in the wake of the city's bankruptcy. (Editor/RK)

Two aspects of the place of controversy in the secondary school social studies curricula are considered in this study. First, students' attitudes and descriptions concerning the introduction of controversial course material into the social studies curricula are investigated; and, secondly, the possible consequences of such material are examined.…

Recent research is beginning to shed some light on the nature and extent of violence and crime in American schools, the role that schools themselves play in producing, aggravating, or reducing school crime, and how changes in the schools can remedy social control problems. Data from these studies indicate that: (1) despite public opinion, school…

Education must be concerned about probabilities rather than plausibilities or absolutes. (Author)

School psychologists (13) representing the 6 counties served by the Northern Indian California Education Project (Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act) attended a workshop on January 14, 1972, at Humboldt State College. Also attending were Humboldt State personnel from the fields of education and psychology. The workshop was intended…

"Nobody any longer has the heart or the authority to teach the ancient laws, stories and the morality that went with them." The author reports on the plight of the Aboriginal children on Melville Island in Australia. (Editor)

Judge Gasch, who spoke in place of Judge John Sirica, states that judges should refrain from exercising supervisory power over the schools since they lack the experience, the training, and the expertise for such work. (Editor)

The paper describes the different types of cognitive, affective, and physical conditions that constitute a school's learning environment, and explains how the learning environment can create and aggravate deviant behavior in some students. One element of the American school structure is group instruction: groups of students are taught by a…

The authors report on a study designed to assess teachers' attitudes toward the use of Ritalin in the treatment of hyperkinesis in school children. Overall, the attitudes of teachers are cautiously favorable. Although teachers commonly have experience with a pupil using Ritalin, specific and accurate information about the drug is uncommon. (RP)

Author's advice to inner city principals is to develop some foresight, be prepared, and anticipate action. (Editor/CB)