Thirty-two outstanding teachers tell their get-acquainted ideas for the first week of school, and give helpful first of the year activities. (Editor/GB)

Authors explore the increasing use of minority group members in network television programming. (Author)

Black students categorized 50 situations describing black-white interaction according to advisable social distance. Findings indicate one's attitudes are related to one's reference groups and to the actual interaction situations encountered. (JB)

The Laboratory School-Teacher Education Module, Western Regional School Desegregation Project of the University of California at Riverside was designed to help a select group of teachers find some of the answers in solving problems of school desegregation. (SB)

The changing emphasis on employment in corrections will not by itself solve the problem of reintegration of the ex-offender into society; meaningful jobs with career opportunities must be available. This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

The central purpose of mainstreaming is to integrate handicapped students with nonhandicapped peers. It is the teacher's responsibility to foster positive and constructive interactions between handicapped students and their peers. Three ways of organizing constructive peer interaction are: (1) cooperation; (2) competition; and (3) an…

Examines several dimensions of adolescent suicide, including theories of suicide, methods of assessing lethality, and methods of counseling the suicidal person. (Author/GC)

Evaluated a causal model of life satisfaction by using four data sets with sample sizes ranging from 961-3,996. The proposed structural model fit the male and female samples and results were replicated across the four data sets. No systematic sex differences were found in terms of structural parameters. (Author/RC)

The growth of physical education as a discipline is shown in historical perspective through a look at the 1934 Atlantic City convention and related events through the end of 1939. Special attention is given to the most notable participants and contributors from the Eastern District. (JN)

Like the U.S., Germany is finding it difficult to integrate ethnic minorities into its society. The resulting "social erosion" is most apparent in German schools. (WD)

Children who are blind are among the most easily mainstreamed of children with handicaps. The child with visual impairments is in need of an educational program which will meet all the students' needs, including those resulting from the visual condition. (JN)

This study compared the effects of four classroom-based indirect teacher consultation methods on students' low sociometric status (SMS) in third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade classes. Providing teachers with both generative factors of out-group membership and ameliorative strategies was no more effective in enhancing these students' status than…