The feature article of this issue of Translations: "Educational Reform and Its Connection to Art Instruction: Art and Writing" (James Blasingname) presents the history and purposes of art education. This purpose falls within the broadly stated "Art for Life's Sake." The editors chose articles that "promote research on how people grapple with life…

Author suggests that the school has a moral imperative to face up to society's problems and to exercise its unique capability for being the custodian of values. (Editor)

School counselors have the highest rate of suicidal tendencies of any professional group in education. Seven classic symptoms of the suicidal counselor are delineated. (RP)

The author, famous in the field of family counseling, relates his experiences and subsequent inferences in the field of family life. (RWP)

The 1968 student revolt at Columbia University is examined in terms of a rhetorical strategy based on the rejection of established leadership in a polarized environment. (RN)

Detailed suggestions for developing workshops to increase consciousness for combating personal and institutional racism. (Author)

The purpose of the article is to introduce and recommend to United States educators a number of films produced during the last two decades which realistically portray social problems of Latin America. These films provide historians with valuable documents from which to study Latin American society. (SM)

A discussion of seven areas in physical education where change is essential. (Editors)

Until very recently, most social studies materials contained little discussion of prison reform. Inclusion of this vital subject in the curriculum is discussed. (JB)

This discussion on the threat to society of drug abuse and the need for regulation of drugs to protect the public was presented at the School of Health of Kent State University, the Pharmaceutical Manufactureres Association and the ASHA Workshop, Ohio, 1971. (JC)

This commentary on the background and the implications of the Commission Report introduces a theme issue. (JB)

Reviewed and analyzed is The California Tomorrow Plan,'' an imaginative and comprehensive strategy for turning society's assault on the environment into a coherent effort for solving social and environmental problems. If offers a rational method and system for identifying, analyzing, and coping with major disruptions in our society and…

Points and suggestions that could be used in an instructional program about alcohol. Presented at the Session on Alcohol and the Adolescent, 14th Annual American Medical Association-American School Health Association Session on School Health, San Francisco, California, 1972. (JC)

Priorities of responsibility are discussed and distinguished from life and death as vital issues. Vital issues are felt to be most important; avoidance of catastrophes which, even if they did not eradicate human life, could decimate mankind. (DF)