Reviews "Our Last Term: A Teacher's Diary" by Lucille G. Natkins. Argues that this book, a log of events that occurred during the author's long career of teaching social studies, presents a practitioner's realistic account of conditions in urban schools. (Includes an excerpt from the book). (KH)

Discusses the problem of school safety and classroom disruption resulting from a few students' acts and threats of violence, and offers advice on how to deal with it. The article reviews how these disruptions harm other students' education and addresses administrative roadblocks and legal problems in curbing student violence and bad behavior. (GR)