This paper examines the reported decisions, one unreported decision, and two Attorney Generals' opinions that deal with school punishment for the use of drugs and alcohol off campus and with suspensions pending criminal charges for student offenses committed off school property. (Author)

This study investigated variations in the relationship between age strata and career roles of faculty affiliated with eight distinctive clusters of academic disciplines in major research universities. The sample consisted of over 10,000 faculty who responded to a recent American Council on Education survey. The results demonstrated wide variation…

This annual report indicates the status of each department and division at Forest Park Community College, a predominantly black, inner-city, two-year college in St. Louis, Missouri. Each department or division reports its goals for 1974-75, assesses the level at which each goal was achieved, and presents its goals for 1975-76. The departments and…

This report contains the results of an international survey of future studies, carried out between March 1974 and March 1975. The purpose of the survey was to obtain a profile of major futures studies activities--who is doing what, with what objectives, and using which approaches and methods. Of 3,000 organizations and individuals in a variety of…

This paper discusses punishment as a means of modifying children's behavior, and related several attempts to train parents and child care workers in effective use of pubishment. The author first notes the distinction between punishment and corporal punishment. She views the latter as both unnecessary and harmful since it teaches the child to be an…

The impact of children's reactions to punishment on subsequent adult disciplinary actions was assessed in a study in which adult women administered rewards and punishments contingent on the behavior of a child viewed on a television monitor. Following an aggressive act by the target child and punishment administered by the adult subject, the adult…

As part of the instrumentation to assess the effectiveness of the Schools Without Failure (SWF) program in 10 elementary schools in the New Castle, Pa. School District, the Opinionnaire on Attitudes Toward Education was used as a measure of teacher attitudes toward child-centered education, discipline, and the desirability of understanding pupils'…

This paper examines sex and class differences in the style and circumstances of parental discipline of the child. Specifically, we have focused on Melvin Kohn's suggestive hypothesis that white collar parents stress the development of internal standards of conduct in their children and thus are more likely to discipline the child on the basis of…

California educators have been given broad discretionary powers to control students who misuse drugs or narcotics, and to develop drug education programs. This paper outlines and discusses legislation dealing with disciplinary actions against drug offenders, and delineates school responsibilities for developing and implementing effective drug…

Institutions of higher education have long stood in loco parentis to their students. This concept is now widely challenged. This paper examines the evolution of the concept and discusses 29 court cases, beginning with a case heard in a Maine court in 1847. The evidence indicates that the future of the concept is unpredictable. Procedural due…

The official program of the Kentucky state conference for teachers of exceptional children (held in Louisville, October 30-31, 1970) is presented accompanied with photographs of the conference participants. Included are introductory comments by LeRoy Aserlind relating his childhood experiences and goals to those of special education, Stella…

A group of university presidents and other administrative officials met in July, 1968 to discuss the problem of crime and disorder in the US. There was an expressed need for background information that would be helpful to officials at institutions of higher education who want to develop, reexamine, or redefine a code of student conduct. This…

The booklet is the fourth in a series on the ways that child care centers can contribute to the healthy growth and development of preschool children, and focused on is the prevention of bedlam. Bedlam in a child care center is seen to be caused by frustration, anger, too much noise, overstimulation, reaction to teacher, contagion, or change in…

Due process of law has never been defined by the Supreme Court in so many words, the Court choosing to define that term on an inclusion/exclusion basis as it goes along. The author traces the historical development of the due process concept, and discusses cases where due process has affected the rights of those involved in the educational…

A descriptive analysis of the socialization techniques and values for aggression of a sample of 188 parent sets from a southern Appalachia county was described. The parents were at a lower class occupation and income level. Data were collected by interviews in the home. The 57 separate items in the mother interview and the 40 items in the father…