The paper presents data relating to changes in teacher choice of classroom management procedures, the frequency of passive, disruptive, and attending behavior for 20 criterion children over 26 days, and pre-post mean-gain achievement testing results on these children. (Author)

Questions considered are: What are the modal political beliefs and attitudes of junior high school students? What are their capabilities for political learning and what suggestions for improving instruction can be derived from studies of their political learning? (Author/VW)

Reports an analysis of an interview study of three groups of 51 lower-class maternity cases--West African, Negro, and East Indian--about their intentions for behavior toward their children and their preferences for behavior by their children. (JM)

If people and organizations do not change, it must be because the natural drives toward innovation are being stifled or held in check by countervailing forces. Factors within personality and social systems which resist change are examined and recommendations for neutralizing or transforming these factors are summanized. (Author/MB)

The college charter" is defined as the structural linkages to occupational and economic groups, linkages that allow the college to allocate its graduates to major social statuses. It was found that larger schools have lower dropout rates and greater effects on occupational decisions than smaller colleges. (DB)