Discusses need for pupil personnel staff to try to provide source of stability to students during and after negotiations, in effort to keep communication lines open between teachers and students. (CJ)

Assesses school counselors job-ideal dictated by school counselors themselves. Counselors responded to the Counselor Function Inventory. Counseling per se is viewed as primary to counselors role; he or she is not a clerk, teacher, disciplinarian, or an administrator. (Author/EK)

Personal account of author's participation in a special program to improve learning skills of disadvantaged New York City children, with concerns expressed over ignored need for all teachers and personnel workers to function as team for sake of child and family. (CJ)

Discusses functions of guidance personnel as enforcers of code of "institutionalized behavior." Offers alternate role as creator of optimal learning climates. (CJ)

Slum environments produce lead poisoning which counselors in East New York sought to bring to attention of parents and legislators by a screening program to identify children who had it. Counselors also established a program to alert parents to dangers of ingesting fallen plaster. (CJ)

Study notes great differences in performance between counselors, to clarify role for better effectiveness. (CJ)

Describes project to raise self image of all fifth graders by giving them responsibility of helping first grade children with difficulties, academic and adjustment. (Author/CJ)