Presents the results of a study that examined the effects of stepfamily life on children and adults and what information stepparents would like given to school personnel about their family life. (NKA)

Presents specific information to help teachers give clear and precise directions. (SRT)

Provides a list of suggestions administrators might pass on to beginning teachers to help them survive the first year. Suggestions concern the following areas: (1) classroom management, (2) classroom discipline, (3) instruction, and (4) professional concerns. (FL)

Provides a description of a time-on-task workshop series and the effects on several of the teacher participants. (HOD)

Describes the Peninsula Academies program developed by the Sequoia (California) Union High School District and 27 local high technology companies to help educationally disadvantaged students break the pattern of low academic achievement, lack of skills, and chronic unemployment. (FL)

Suggests sports literature as an alternative to traditional course work in high school reading classes. Explains how best to use it. (FL)

Decries the lack of attention to second language learning in the American public schools. Contrasts language study in the United States to that in other countries. (FL)

Reports responses to a survey of junior and senior high school students concerning (1) what they have learned from studying history, (2) what they think of the subject, (3) what importance they attach to the study of history, (4) how they would improve history instruction, and (5) their opinions of historians. (FL)

Notes that censorship is a growing problem in the public schools. Discusses materials and topics likely to be censored and offers suggestions for dealing with censorship. (FL)

In order to supply advice to teacher job seekers, 445 Iowa superintendents were surveyed about their teacher hiring practices and their preferences on such matters as letters of application, resume format, and appearance and behavior of candidates during the job interview. The questionnaire, tabulated results, and narrative responses are included.…

This article presents a rationale for using newspaper comics and cartoons as instructional materials to foster language skills, career skills, values clarification, and critical thinking. It provides ideas for creating games and learning activity packages (LAPs) based on comic strips. (SJL)

The author describes the advantages of stratified heterogeneous grouping, a compromise between ability grouping and random grouping which assures students and teachers opportunities to learn and teach that are not inherent in other methods of grouping. (Author/KC)

Sets forth five principles that should be emphasized in programs designed to help teachers teach nonstandard English speaking students more effectively. (FL)

In Spring 1980, 150 social studies supervisors responded to a survey concerning multicultural/multiethnic programs in their public and private schools: grade levels at which programs are offered; total courses and/or units offered; ethnic/racial groups covered; objectives; and the program's effectiveness in reducing prejudice. (SJL)

Writing from the hypothetical vantage point of the year 1994, the authors identify five reasons for the growth of private schools and the decline of public education in the 1980s: conflicting idologies within the public schools; teacher disenchantment; the back to basics movement; ethnic group pressures; and economic cutbacks. (SJL)