NASSP Bulletin

Suspending or expelling students can be a sticky process, as many principals across the country have found out in recent court cases involving the issue of procedural due process and the rights it guarantees students. This article suggests guidelines drawn from court rulings, which are reliable indicators of the cur rent status of legal opinion on this subject.

Many states and large city school districts have de veloped codes outlining student rights and responsi bilities in an all-out effort to avoid legal entanglements. This article explains the assumptions and definitions upon which standards have been established.

Problem students will respond to liking and respect, says this former assistant principal. He makes several suggestions for being a successful administrator in charge of discipline.

Vandalism is only part of the larger society's ills, says this writer. The solution will depend on how effec tively the school can involve students and the whole community in combatting it.

This article describes a concept of group therapy called Positive Peer Culture. As a technique of be havior modification, it has been used successfully in residential treatment centers for delinquent boys. Now it is being tested for use in public secondary schools.

Until recently, the roles of public schools and training schools for delinquents were almost mutually ex clusive. Some public school personnel stereotyped training schools as the dumping ground for teenage troublemakers and psychotics. Correctional workers blamed the increasing population on the actions of the public schools. Rather than prolonging the de bate, it is time to seek solutions to the problem.

Interest continues to mount on the controversial topic of corporal punishment, but few concrete guidelines exist in most states. This article discusses the ques tions each educator must ask in regard to corporal punishment.

The communication system outlined in this article rests on the assumption that schools can operate on a rational, well-ordered, democratic base of shared involvement. Idealistic? Many schools have instituted or are interested in instituting a similar plan.

Students may feel much more affirmative about grading, school rules, facilities, homework, etc., than the administration and staff give them credit for. This article cites the revealing findings of a student/faculty attitude survey. Try it at your school?

No matter how well we think we communicate, we sometimes are surprised by negative responses. Many factors can sabotage the best of communica tion efforts. This author explains the how and why of this delicate process.

Many things happen when human services education is a part of the school. Not only do the students and recipient institutions benefit, the school and com munity feel the good effects, too.

This article suggests that secondary schools offer upperclassmen the opportunity to inquire objectively into the language and structure of morality.

Whether reluctant readers are extremely bright, aver age, or below average in intelligence, they pose a problem for every school. Here's an account of what one school successfully did for its reluctant readers.

Education in Norway's far northlands is wonderfully diverse, even though local schools are governed by a national ministry of education. This article should shatter the myth that central control means bland homogenization.