Interviews and questionnaires were used to determine high school students' attitudes toward the classroom management styles of teachers who they perceived as relationship-oriented. Teachers identified as humanistic engage in classroom control procedures characterized by nonabrogation of responsibility, fairness, and calmness. (FG)

Explains how law-related education can be taught at the elementary level and how and why a law-related education program ought to be instituted; answers criticisms of law-related education. (JM)

Health education has developed from the early physical education programs of the 1860s. Health education is now in a period of change due to an increasing interest in health and health-related careers. A proposed interdisciplinary structure for health studies as a teaching field is described. (JN)

This empirical inquiry investigates the establishment of off-site school support units for disruptive pupils in one division of the Inner London Education Authority. An attempt is made to analyze the problems experienced by the teachers and head teachers in establishing the units. (Author)

Rather than seeing the "self-selection" factor in private school enrollment as a flaw in Coleman's study, the author views this element of private choice and commitment to learning as the key to effective education and discipline. One of three theme articles: "Reflections on the 1981 Coleman study."(SJL)

The character of academic disciplines profoundly influences the curricular organization and pedagogical practices of undergraduate education. A critical interpretation of liberal arts disciplines and their place in undergraduate education is discussed, with a positive rationale for a different approach to undergraduate education outlined.…

Some of the factors federal investigators and arbitrators use to distinguish between a voluntary quit and a constructive discharge are examined. Several guidelines university administrators can use to preempt and defend such claims are offered. The best way to avoid constructive discharge, it is suggested,is to conduct supervisory training. (MLW)

Discusses the negative aspects of suspension from school, especially its disproportionate impact on non-White students, and surveys some of the most commonly employed alternatives to suspension. (ST)

In the last 25 years, educational psychology has changed and expanded as a discipline. The major educational reform movements have increased the need for research data and for psychological services in the schools, thus expanding the role of the educational psychologist. (SJL)

Information systems are becoming more than computer systems, with new equipment and techniques combining with data processing to form a new field called information technology. The emerging discipline of systems engineering is discussed along with nine systems engineering techniques. An organization chart of an information services department is…

The report of this New Jersey state task force is part of a proposed legislative package. This article cites some of the task force recommendations for restructuring the juvenile court system, dealing with violence and vandalism in the schools, and providing alternative schools for disruptive students. (SJL)

A shift in the nature of colleges and universities has increasingly been reflected in judicial decisions. The doctrine of in loco parentis described student-university relationships until the courts began to emphasize the contractual relationship and the constitutional rights of individual students. (RC)

Investigates the influence of the student teaching experience on the change in attitude toward classroom management in secondary preservice science teachers (N=19). Two measures of classroom management orientation administered before and after the student teaching experience were examined, along with demographic dimensions of gender, science area,…

Recent court cases are cited that indicate courts are now beginning to require that students be informed of academic (including clinical) deficiencies and be provided the opportunity to correct the problem. When the dismissal is for disciplinary rather than academic reasons, more procedural due process is required. (Author/MLW)

Discusses need for social scientific research, clinical social scientists in pharmacy, and specialists in pharmaceutical sociology and the other social sciences. To illustrate, patient noncompliance with drug regimens and the use of sociology to analyze the problem are examined. Includes a sample program in pharmaceutical sociology, course…