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The evidence in the literature is that both students' efforts and administrators' responses have fallen far short of what it takes to change a system substantially. The categories of literature covered in this bibliography include student and educator perceptions of conditions in schools that generate conflict and impetus for change; empirical studies of students' powerlessness and surveys of the actual and desired extent of student participation in school decisions; case studies of individual schools in which students' actions brought about changes; and prescriptions and strategies for involving students in the shaping of education. (Author/JF)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert