Questionnaire survey of teacher opinion shows disparity between teacher's ideal priority of objectives (scientific methodology ranked high) and the teachers perception of the objectives of the O-Level General Certificate of Education. (AL)

Discusses the role KIDS magazine might play in teaching reading. (MB)

Discusses some of the school problems arising from bureaucratic and political sources as well as from public opinion. (DE)

This paper describes attitudes toward welfare among a sample of three hundred black and three hundred white women. Besides welfare, four correlative scales tapped political conservatism, antiblack attitudes, authoritarianism, and alienation. Among the correlative attitudes, antiwelfare whites held antiblack and often politically conservative…

Reports a study of how selected predispositional and environmental variables interact to influence the processing of information in given communicative situations." (Author/SW)

Presents a study which fails to confirm the hypothesis that emphasizing the respondent's importance in a survey results in fewer Don't know" responses. (MB)

The author thinks a voucher plan is misguided and doomed to failure because resources for education are too scarce. (RA)

A public relations program for guidance services must be honest, continuous, positive, comprehensive, sensitive to the public's concern, and presented in nontechnical terms. A counselor has professional responsibility to convey his competencies and character of guidance services to the public through a public relations role. The school counselor…

The results of a survey taken in New York State indicate that there is a shortage of music teachers in the elementary schools and that most music classes are taught by music specialists. (CK)

Condensed from "The PTA Magazine, LXIII (May 1969), 20-21.

Proposes that in comparing time-limited and time-unlimited treatments, it is important to operationally define each to stimulate the desired expectancies in each condition. Discusses the article by Kelly and Stone (1982). Delineates some important parameters of time manipulations. (Author)