Journal article

Alcohol use is a fact in our society, and so are the alcohol-related problems that it creates. The economic and social costs involved - pressure on hospital and medical services, loss of productive man-hours, marriage breakdown - to name only some of the more obvious,are now widely recognized. And so is the need for effective strategies for reducing the effects of alcohol misuse.

Author Index - Authors are listed alphabetically on pages 2 and 3, with references given to the numerical list, pages 6 to 16.
Subject Index - Subjects are listed alphabetically on pages 4 and 5, with references given to the numerical list, pages 6 to 16. The subject headings are those of the American Education Information Resource Centre (ERIC), plus extra subject headings which are particularly New Zealand cross-referenced to the ERIC headings.
Numerical List - On pages 6 to 16 the articles are listed in the order in which they were published, each with a number.

Youth Unemployment: A review of the situation in New Zealand.

One Hundred Early School Leavers: An in-depth longitudinal study of 100 early school leavers, 1974 to 1977 by Carol Cameron and Ian Livingstone.

Job Scarcity in the Bay of Plenty: An extract from a recently completed survey of school leavers made by the Department of Education.

Coping When You Leave: A teaching programme for secondary school pupils who were likely to have difficulty finding jobs - and its effectiveness.

Neville Bennett's controversial research into primary teaching styles unearthed one informal teacher who obtained higher learning gains for her children then any other teacher in the sample. E.C. Wragg has been watching how she handles more than a thousand individual contacts a day.
This reprint, from the Times Educational Supplement, is introduced by Peter Jackson, NZCER.

'The more TV that children watch, the worse they will do at school, particularly when it comes to reading.' That is one popular belief. Another is that, for children who have difficulty with reading, watching television keeps them away from their books, and therefore it is a counterproductive activity. These beliefs rest on the 'commonsense' view that television requires very little in the way of reading, (even less than comics) and it is likely to supplant reading more and more as a leisure time activity, especially for the poor reader.