This is a study investigating the hypothesis that group interaction facilitates the overt expression of negative and stereotypic attitudes. Responding to a videotaped interview of a Southern boy, Northern subjects in pairs tended to make a greater percentage of derogatory comments about this "outgroup" member than did Northern subjects…

This article examines the relationship between track placement, peer involvements, and youth misconduct and deviance. Some of the findings presented indicate that certain peer attachments serve to further heighten the significant impact of track placement on a range of negative student behaviors. (Author/EB)

Provides a teacher's personal reminiscences of the Jewish holocaust during World War II. Recommends that social studies teachers teach about the holocaust for the benefit of students who have no personal experience with it. (Author/DB)

A graduate of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, recalls her experiences in the early years of desegregation. (JD)

In tests third graders accepted the idea of equal occupational opportunity, but eighth graders from low socioeconomic backgrounds were more pessimistic about their chance of achieving advanced education and a good job. (Ed.)

Considers the adverse criticism of the public school system in the United States to be unjustified and unwarranted. (RL)

Regardless of the direction of pupils' preferences (humanistic or custodial) the more closely pupils' perceptions of their teachers' actual behavior approximated their conception of ideal teacher behavior, the more positive were their attitudes toward teacher and school. (Author)

Studied factors that may explain why low socioeconomic status children have higher self-concepts than high socioeconomic status children. When either the experimenter's negative evaluation or a high standard for judging student work elicited children's negative self-evaluations, self-concepts of low socioeconomic status children were enhanced. (RL)

Two students recommend elementary and secondary school courses on American cultural and ethnic groups in order to counteract ethnic prejudice. An ethnic studies program at John Dewey High School in Brooklyn is described and student attitudes toward this program are analyzed. (Author/DB)

Results of this experiment indicate that negative first impressions of a teacher have a significant effect upon the classroom climate. (RW)

Analyzes the content of stories in several basal reading systems widely used in primary grade reading instruction, in terms of the relative frequency of main characters who are elderly, the quality of characterizations of elderly characters, the incidence of aging themes, and incidental references to aging or the elderly. Indicates few positive…

Presented 192 clinical psychologists with clinical vignettes in which client ages varied. Respondents rated older depressed and older agoraphobic clients as significantly less ideal than younger clients with identical symptoms and histories. Older depressed and manic clients also were given significantly poorer prognoses than younger clients.…

The unfavorable position of the education faculty in academe is attributable to a clash between the dominant culture of the university (to reproduce elite leadership) and the partially alien culture of the education faculty (to reproduce society as a whole). The author presents suggestions to improve this situation. (MT)

Metaphors, as linguistic cultural artifacts of organization culture, can be used as catalysts to encourage reflection and discussion on campus culture with key campus leaders, both faculty and administrators. An analysis of interviews with administrators, faculty, and departmental secretaries is discussed. (MLW)

Discussion of job stress faced by librarians identifies characteristics most often associated with burnout, characteristics of helping professions that intensify burnout factors, and suggestions to consider for fighting the tendency to burn out. A personal account of a burnout victim (junior high school librarian) is included. Six sources are…