This Solution-Finding Report provides information, requested by Tara Zuber with the Great Lakes Comprehensive Center (GLCC) at American Institutes for Research (AIR), for resources with evidence-based practices that look at the social and emotional causes that impact the lack of student learning and engagement, for GLCC's Early Warning Signs work.…

The study of obesity is a relatively new interdisciplinary academic field. The community college library shelves should contain two types of resources. First, several kinds of reference materials, and second, a host of broader materials that place the discussion of obesity within a cultural framework. This overview is divided into two major…

One hundred and one listings comprise this general bibliography on social and city planning. The listings provide current information on social planning. Most of the listings date from 1974 through 1975. The bulk of the documents are project reports, commercially published books, directories, and pamphlets dealing with social planning. The…

This brief bibliography is part of a series produced by the Current Awareness Services of the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol Information, and informational service of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The publications provide readers with regularly codified bibliographic references to recent, topical literature in…

The articles in this issue review the history of the sociological study of different societies' conceptions of time. Social time is the way people regard and employ time dependent on economic conditions, the organization of daily life, the cultural setting, and religion. (JDH)

Looks at literature that deals with the experiences of adolescents who are seen by their peers to be living on the fringe of dominant adolescent culture. Presents reviews written by a group of university students enrolled in a children's literature course at American University's School of Education in Washington. (SG)

A variety of databases were searched for the compilation of this bibliography on adolescent alcoholism, reflecting the psychological and socioeconomic aspects covered. Nine hundred and twenty-eight citations in English and foreign languages for the period January 1986 through April 1992 were included. For journal articles written in a foreign…

This international bibliography in educational administration emphasizes primary and secondary education. The bibliography is limited to Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the United States. (Author/DW)

Considers how hidden ideologies of adults, who control the production, selection, and presentation of children's literature, influence what gets attention and use. Discusses how teachers share with students books that have touched their hearts. Presents annotations of 10 picture books suggesting they are for child and adult audiences. (SC)

This document provides references to recently published materials on the social and political aspects of science and technology available for examination in the collections of the Library of Congress. These published materials include: selected texts; handbooks, encyclopedias and dictionaries; bibliographies; government publications; abstracting…

This article covers both the life and the work of Alexander Luria, the Soviet psychologist, and constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the subject. A substantial bibliography of Luria's publications in English is included in the article. (CT)

The rigidity construct is reinterpreted in terms of the cognitive developmental approach. A review reveals both cognitive and developmental themes, with an emphasis on the structural and operational properties of rigidity. Notes weaknesses of previous approaches to rigidity and discusses implications and predictions from the proposed model.…

Examines two books ("Who Gets Ahead" and "Small Futures") that consider the role of the school in assuring students of social and economic equality once they are out of school. (IRT)

This article presents an annotated bibliography of books, articles and other documents published in 2006, which is a continuation of those published in "Teaching of Psychology" (e.g., Berry & Daniel, 1984; Fulkerson & Wise, 1987; Johnson & Schroder, 1997; Wise & Fulkerson, 1996). It maintains similar search methods and criteria for inclusion that…

This paper provides an annotated bibliography of various resources about adolescent suicide. The first section addresses facts and myths about adolescent suicide, followed by a presentation of causal factors in the second section. The third section focuses on the educator's role in suicide prevention; suicidal warning signs, interactions with the…