The processes of self-control involved in solving complex human problems consist of conscious effort, focused attention and choice between conflicting alternatives. Viewed as a complex set of specific teachable skills, self-control can be learned by clients and others if structured learning experiences are provided. (Author)

Recently many religious colleges have become more secular and single-sex colleges have become coeducational. By contrasting environmental and financial data of a matched sample of colleges that made these changes with a sample of colleges that have not, it was possible to assess the impact of those policy decisions. (Author/LBH)

Reports on a survey of faculty and administrator attitudes toward, and use and knowledge of, instructional television. Suggests strategies to increase the use of instructional television; e.g., create a need for change, promote the advantages of instructional television, and show how instructional television is compatible with institutional…

Retiring Secretary of Education William Bennett answers questions about his statements on the quality and costs of higher education, current administration attitudes about minority access, and the politics of education at the federal level. (MSE)

Describes the development of a Title VII bilingual program in a California community where Hispanics constitute 46 percent of the population. Examines change strategies used over a ten-year period of renewal. (NEC)

State policymakers have the following options in attempting to ameliorate the high school dropout problem: (1) additional money; (2) general aid or targeted aid; (3) incentives or mandates. Research findings on the effect of each of those options are summarized and suggestions for state policies are made. (PS)

Traces financial support of the arts over the past 40 years to point out how little change has been brought about from the increased private and governmental patronage. Maintains that educational failure of the arts, producing art/culture insufficiencies, must be corrected. (TRS)

In the past two years, 26 states have established task forces to study issues of quality, mission, efficiency, governance, access, and financial support and arrive at some new solutions. What separate these initiatives from previous ones are their magnitude and scope and the resources used. (MSE)

This investigation of the effect of school-based equity strategies on seventh and eighth grade girls' voluntary computer usage found that girls in schools where the strategies were implemented used computers more than boys; the reverse was true in the control schools. Reasons why the intervention was successful are suggested. (LRW)

Extensive organizational changes made in an Australian university during a period of 10 years are discussed, including the issues of the government's role in forcing a merger, other forces in higher education, funding, administrative change, educational reorientation, and conflicts and resistance within the institution. (MSE)

While recent reports on the improvement of college curricula and instructional quality have inspired higher education leaders, Wingspread conference participants see obstacles to reform in conflicts over accountability, campus-government relationships, and even the existence of a crisis in academe. (MSE)

The growing teacher shortage and increasing bureaucratization of schools make it imperative that new means be developed to make teaching more attractive as a profession. Teacher organizations, professional newsletters, informal discussion groups, networking, ad hoc pressure groups, and alternative schools might provide some route to reform. (KH)

The underrepresentation of Blacks in higher education in the state must be remedied by increasing the pool of potential colleagues, not by shifting hiring patterns. The Indiana Commission for Higher Education study of minority student participation in higher education is discussed. (MLW)

A model identifying 10 domains of institutional effectiveness for students is tested in relationship to student characteristics. Implications for bringing student expectations in line with institutional performance are examined. (MSE)

A skeptical review of recent congressional task force recommendations for public school teachers, which include only a limited endorsement of merit pay and strong encouragement for sabbatical leave for teachers to study and travel abroad. (JBM)