Reviews and discusses results of studies examining reasons why teaching is selected as a profession (as well as degree of commitment among teachers) and advantages and disadvantages of the profession. Reasons for becoming teachers include helping young children. However, stresses associated with teaching often manifest themselves in "teacher…

Discusses the development of a "youth culture" in America as a failure to integrate the young into any responsible adult activity, thus forcing them back on their own age group. Examines changes in youth attitudes and in the size of the adolescent population between the 1960s and 1970s. (Author/SJL)

Four topics are briefly reviewed: how girls are socialized into the feminine role; how elementary schools discriminate against boys and secondary schools against girls; the question of biological sex differences in learning; and recent changes in sex roles and the status of women. (Part of a theme issue on women.) (SJL)

Lists 10 curriculum innovations and discusses reasons why they are not used extensively today. Reviews current curricular trends in career, environmental, ethnic, bicultural/bilingual, metric/calculator, sex, nonsexist, law-related, and consumer education. Suggests communication, lifelong learning, international cooperation, and values will have…

Summarizes the major constitutional rights of students which are supported by recent court cases in the areas of religion; freedom of speech, expression, and assembly; student government; academic penalties and grades; pregnant and married students; exclusion from extracurricular activities; punishment; police in the schools; student records; and…