Analyzed approaches to classroom misbehavior by classroom teachers, and graduate students completing their training in school psychology, using the induction-sensitization model of socialization. Significant differences were noted, with teachers displaying a more sensitizing (punitive) approach to classroom management. A significant…

Kindergarten teachers were more likely to discipline when boys were verbally disruptive, but disciplined girls for disruptive aggressive behaviors. Teachers were physical when responding to boys' disruptions and used verbal and nonverbal behaviors when responding to girls' disruptive behaviors. Girls' questions received longer teacher responses.…

This paper integrates information from several areas regarding the use of discipline in American schools. The material provides a framework for conceptualizing what happens when children misbehave. (Author/MC)

Regular class teachers from Colorado Springs, where mainstreaming has been practiced for several years, comment on its advantages and disadvantages, their need for support, and the emotional and professional demands mainstreaming makes on them. Particular attention is given to the difficulties of handling emotionally disturbed children. (SJL)

Analyzing the serious discipline problems existing in inner-city secondary schools plus teacher and administrator perceptions of it, the author tells educators that they cannot expect to alter the home/school socioeconomic clash which generates the problem, but they can create a positive learning climate which will raise student achievement. (SJL)

Six administrators share their ideas on such things as curriculum change, administrator role, a leisure activities day, career education, and enrollment decline--all in the context of the small school. (JM)

In the past 25 years, educational economists have made a substantial contribution to thinking about problems of resource allocations to education and of returns on education. They still have an important contribution to make in the development of cost and financial analysis and in efficiency studies. (Editor/SJL)

Classroom management a collection of measures by which teachers control the events of a lesson. Research suggests that social behaviors can be learned in the same way as cognitive rules. (Author/JN)

Describes personal experiences teaching English in a ghetto high school. Suggests that the college teacher of English should know how little preparation these students have in the way of thinking and working by themselves and how little relevance college education may have for them. (MKM)

Degree objectives of prospective graduate students from eight ethnic groups were investigated using the Graduate Record Examinations(GRE) registrant population of 1976-1977. GRE scores, undergraduate grade point average (GPA), and being a male were important predictors of students' expectations of obtaining a doctor's rather than a master's…

A 1979 national survey reveals that nearly two-thirds of all faculty are tenured, many more are in the tenure track. Data for full-time faculty are detailed according to institution type (public and private, college and university) and subject field. (MSE)

Discipline policy is discussed as a reflection of broader concepts of education. Alternatives presented include: retraining administrators in organizational management and leadership; increasing student participation in policymaking; building supportive relationships within the school; culturally pluralizing school policies; and making…

The authors studied truancy in junior high school students through structured interviews with 33 truants. Truancy at this age was commonly associated with significant difficulties at home, at school, and with peers. Two types of truants were delineated: "authority-defying" and "peer phobic." The school's role is discussed. (Author/SJL)

Unreasonable disciplinary and administrative practices by school personnel make it imperative that the courts interfere in the operation of public schools. (LH)