The geographic pattern of support for George McGovern in the face of his decisive defeat in the 1972 presidential election reveals a striking association with the social groups most disaffected from the Nixon Administration. (Author)

Questions the effectiveness of the French language assistant(e)'' in the English school system and wonders whether the money required to finance the program might be better spent elsewhere. (RL)

Typical experiences of the French teaching assistant in the English school system are presented with suggestions for improving utilization of the teaching assistant. (RL)

The conflicting direction of anxiety changes in students new to their particular school building makes it difficult to attribute the change to something inherent within a school system's organization of grades. (Authors)

The general finding is that task and socioemotional information flowed relatively freely across geopolitical boundaries within the three general geopolitical subsystems represented in the sample of theoretical high energy physicists. (29 references) (SJ)

The author explains how "structured material such as the Colour-Factor Set can show all the properties, patterns and characters of numbers. Given the mastery over numbers with which these materials provide children, he condemns teachers who require children "to learn multiplication tables by rote and the so-called four rules by…

Examines current research to determine whether the middle school is any different than the junior high school or only a reorganization of grades to solve an overcrowding, a school plant, or a desegregation problem. Bibliography. (RB)

Provides a critical appraisal of the current agitation for a 5-8 middle school organization. (LN)

Described is a student-discovered algorithm for solving a problem involving division by a fraction. (RS)

Attempts by major powers to redefine the Caribbean area in their own geopolitical terms are aimed at isolating the Caribbean and at stunting the development of its potentially important role in world politics. In defense of national sovereignty, Caribbean nations must retain links with other Third World and nonaligned countries. (Author/GC)