Reports on an experimental study designed to investigate the relationship between two factors commonly regarded as components of the Hawthorne Effect on pupil performance and on intellectual task. These factors are (1) direct cue, or awareness of experimentation, as represented by an announcement that pupils were the subjects of an experiment; and…

Discusses a recent doctoral study of several schools in Indiana that investigated the effects of school programs on student control. The study aimed at providing useful information for school officials anxious about student control in programs where students have unstructured time. Recommendations are made for those contemplating the use of…

The present structure must be modified so that athletics will again be self-initiated, fun-oriented, and player-controlled, with equal opportunities for girls and women. (Editors)

School athletics can be an exceedingly potent tool for developing desirable behavior patterns -- but only if directed by coaches of resolute integrity. Offers illustrative anecdotes. (Editors)

Pennsylvania State University's winningest coach calls for the reform of intercollegiate athletics, and a complete overhaul of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. (Author/EA)

None of the pressures from alumni, citizenry, or students is sufficient to maintain an activity (big-time football) which contradicts the aims of a university unless there is solid support from within the ivied walls. Athletics are under faculty and administrator control. (Author/EA)

As professionalism and commercialism descend through the ranks or schooling, athletics begin to resemble other forms of school work -- and this destroys their value as a conservative social force and as good theater. (Editors)

Neither the proponent nor the critics of athletics can offer substantial evidence to prove that athletics per se are either beneficial or harmful. Presents a summary of the research to date. (Editors)

That an athletic career is currently a glamor one almost goes without saying. Given the national infatuation with sports and the publicity, praise, and money paid athletes, it is a rare teenager who, if given the opportunity, would not opt for a games-playing job no matter what his other talents and prospects. (Author)

A Bloomington, Indiana, high school football team lost its first game in six years at the end of the 1973 season. A sports writer's study of the effects on some of the principals. (Editors)

Title IX regulations being considered for revision by HEW could represent a major breakthrough for women in education, including women in athletics. (Author)

As in other educational realms, the courts are asserting more and more authority over interscholastic athletics. A summary of pertinent cases and decisions. (Editors)

Looks at some positive aspects of athletics, particularly football, to share some experiences both personal and vicarious to establish a truism: While athletics may not make great men, some great men have been athletes. (Editors/JF)

Their special role and the unusual demands placed on them isolate coaches from the rest of the academic bureaucracy. Athletes entering the field of coaching are so thoroughly socialized that they bring with them certain personality traits characteristic of athletes, distinct from other members of the faculty. (Editor)

Competition, in classrooms as on the athletic fields, could destroy childhood and distort an entire lifetime. In an educational institution there is no need for grading, promotion, ranking, tracking, or labeling. A tremendous burden would be removed if teachers could teach without "evaluation," if people would come to school to learn rather than…