Presents five steps in grief process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and resolution and acceptance. Considers grief of new students who transfer into a school, giving up old friendships and familiar surroundings. Examines how counselors can help these students and their families. (NB)

Two recent visitors to the People's Republic of China report on dramatic changes in that nation's educational system. Besides experiencing some student problems similar to those in the U.S. (such as disobedience, early maturity, and reluctance to attend school), China faces the major problems confronting any Third World nation emerging in a…

Mary Hatwood Futrell, President, National Education Association; Gorden M. Ambach, President, University of the State of New York; Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund; Rene C. Gonzalez, Office of Educational Research and Improvement; and Nancy Reagan identify students' noninstructional needs. (DMM)

Describes a dropout prevention program used for eight years in Joliet Township, Illinois, high schools. (MD)

Discusses ethical dilemmas inherent in the school setting that result from conflicts in counselor responsibilities to pupils, parents, and school. An ethical dilemma involving a pregnant student who is considering an abortion is described, and some possible counselor responses are discussed. (Author)

Surveyed perceptions of personal problems, appropriate help sources, and general attitudes about counseling in college students (N=738). Results indicated areas of concern, conservative preferences for intervention, generally favorable attitudes about counseling, and some sex differences. (Author/LLL)

Among secondary school students, (1) although the content of their stated school problems included peer relations and institutional restrictions, the salient content involved teacher affectivity; (2) the quality with which problems were formulated was primarily "egocentric" rather than "socially sensitive"; and (3) content and…

Article describes one school's experience with the problem of students smoking in the restrooms and steps taken to solve it. (GB)

This study identifies and analyzes federal and state court cases relating to the rights of students during the period 1960 to 1971. (Editor)

The discussion presented in this paper is an attempt to bring some issues involving the nature of affective openness, its pitfalls, energy demands and benefits into focus for the counselor dealing with nonpathologic youth manifesting sexual concerns. (Author)

An overview of a program whose design is to help the student or non student where he is in his developmental and decision making processes. (JC)

Author makes some general observations about Blacks in American education, and some specific observations about the problems that black athletes face apart from the athletic situation. (Author/CB)

A summary is given of the deplorable conditions surrounding the operations and facilities of the seventy-seven federal boarding schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. One school, the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, Utah, reflects total disregard for educational, physical, and psychological needs of the Native American. (JB)

This paper attempts to pinpoint some of the problems involved in designing mass-media courses for adults and some of the ways in which research can assist both producers and the users of such courses. (Authors)