Discusses ways to assist the development of individual, interpersonal, and social adequacy in adolescents who are chronically ill. (SS)

The investigators attempted to employ strategies that would attack identified perpetrators of school violence and vandalism existing within schools. Results indicated that the dollar costs of vandalism and frequency of inappropriate student behavior decreased more in experimental than in control schools. (Author)

A methodology is described to utilize dormitory parents in direct care activities for the early intervention of behavioral problems of the school-age child. (MM)

Principals and teachers need to develop basic counseling skills to help students deal with family problems they bring to school. (LD)

Considers the blessings and constraints imposed by technological innovations and cites some inherent conflicts in transferring Western technology to a non-Western world. Recommends focus on problems and goals rather than technologies. (Author/CK)

A high proportion of students seen by student health services have acute rather than chronic alcohol-related problems. (JD)

The authors, while developing instruments to assess a person's "environmental orientations," observed the emergence of several general approaches to environmental problem solving. This research report describes those findings. (BT)

In the aftermath of the Attica prison riot, the shooting of George Jackson at San Quentin, and a major prison scandal in Arkansas, an assessment of public reaction to inmate grievances tests basic values in American politics. (Editor)

Characteristics of the school organization and the miseducation of educational practitioners orient educators toward designing solutions before they have analyzed the target problems. (Author)

Section 170 of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code is discussed with regard to the consequences of various types of inter vivos charitable gifts. Frequent complications occur when the donor claims the gifts as deductions on his income tax. Available from: the University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Virginia 23173. (LBH)

Suggests that before secondary principals can deal effectively with discipline problems, they should graph disciplinary incidents according to the school calendar in order to identify peak behavioral problem periods. (JG)

Discusses some transition problems faced by schools and industries in converting to the metric system, including limited availability of metric equipment, costs of converting, and a lack of metric-oriented textbooks. (MLH)

Review of problem-based learning (PBL) finds that innovation is comprised of four elements: an ill-structured problem, substantive content, student apprenticeship, and self-directed learning. Research evidence suggests that PBL is better than traditional instruction on long-term information retention, conceptual understanding, and self-directed…

Highlights the root causes of nativism against both immigrants and U.S. immigration policy arising from increasing legal and illegal immigration. Further, it outlines the conditions under which diversity can be brought to the forefront as one of society's strengths. (GR)