Concerned about increasing academic achievement and reducing dropout rates, particularly among disadvantaged students, researchers have sought to apply human relations training to teachers in efforts to change the interpersonal aspects of the teaching-learning situation. This paper reviews six years of such work by two educational researchers (D.N. Aspy and F.N. Roebuck) who sought to apply Carkhuff's Human Resource Development Technology to educational problems. It discusses plans to extend the research into the psychological sub-strata of helping conditions, and cites two pilot studies. (Author/CJ)