Reviews research and data regarding the effects of television violence on viewers, especially children. (GC)

Maintains that anti-intellectualism threatens intellectual freedom when thinking is regarded only as an activity that experts and specialists do and when judgments of value are not regarded as central to library work. Intellectuals are seen as making discriminating judgments while anti-intellectuals discriminate against them. Six references are…

Discusses the use of manipulative teaching practices and contends that manipulation is to be condemned in teaching except in unusual circumstances. The author clarifies the notion of manipulation and distinguishes its forms from other teaching methods. (Author/KC)

The most debilitating factor that minority researchers must overcome in order to become active participants in the educational research community is the negative attitude of White researchers toward their minority colleagues. (Author/GC)

Argues that--often unknowingly--many teachers inculcate a hatred of writing in their students by using writing as punishment. Offers suggestions to correct this problem. (FL)

Criticizes an earlier article on nursing students with disabilities for eliminating perspectives of the disability community. Uses the social model rather than the medical model to interpret the earlier study's results as demonstrating negative behaviors and discriminatory practices toward students with disabilities. (SK)

States that the media often is inaccurate in its portrayal of mental illness which helps engender negative, incorrect perceptions about counselors and their clients. Reports that ethical codes offer little direction to counselors wishing to confront this problem. Suggests that a change-promoting response demands that counselors move beyond…

Advocates of corporate governance reform hailed passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 as a long-overdue raising of the accountability bar for corporate directors. Although SOX, as the law is widely known, does not legally apply to nonprofit boards, it has profoundly influenced the way many trustees, especially current and former corporate…

Most American-born (or native) blacks think of Afro-Caribbean women as clannish, thrifty to the point of greed, constant strivers, uninvolved in civil rights and women's rights activities, and believing in stereotypes of native blacks' inferiority. These images are tied to the Afro-Caribbean woman's immigrant status. As a foreigner, she constantly…

The failure of the supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment to understand the rhetoric and world view of its opponents resulted in the defeat of the amendment. The opponents of the ERA had six arguments: women are not discriminated against; women will be drafted; protective labor laws will be eliminated; the ERA will destroy tradition regarding…

We must recognize that, in the areas of law and politics, American citizens are basically uninformed, suspicious, and alienated. Educators should work in conjunction with legal authorities to provide experience-based law-focused education for all age groups. (Author/SJL)

Discusses research suggesting that television viewing contributes to negative attitudes and low levels of knowledge about older people. Using the same data set and measurements, concludes that the effect of television viewing on knowledge and attitudes about older people is small and restricted to younger people. (NRB)

An analysis of network news coverage of public education from April 1982 to April 1983 showed that such coverage was overwhelmingly negative, with almost four times as much news space devoted to "bad news" about public education as to "good news." (CMG)

Extends earlier conceptualization of the self-attitudes/delinquency causal process (viz, that deviant responses are motivated by earlier development of self-rejecting attitudes in the course of normative group experiences and function to assuage those attitudes) to incorporate situations in which social devaluations likely to diminish self-esteem…

A school psychologist's assumptions regarding private practice along with his findings when these assumptions were tested in the private sector are presented. The experiential findings result in suggestions regarding training and recommended questions to be asked by school psychologists who are contemplating involvement in private practice.…