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This handbook is designed to assist schools in carrying out the following goals of the Fair Play program: to strengthen and expand students' female or male self-concepts, to increase their decision-making skills, and to increase their academic achievement by changing their stereotypic attitude toward particular content areas. The Fair Play program consists of six units: (1) Decisions and You (decision-making skills); (2) Decisions about Roles (changing, choosing, and defining roles); (3) Decisions about Language (comparison and analysis of female and male language); (4) Decisions about Mathematics (male and female attitudes toward math and math-related careers); (5) Decisions about Science (attitudes toward science, human development and the role of genes, and relationship between humans and the environment; and (6) Decisions about Physical Activity (attitudes toward physical activity and activities to enhance abilities in physical fitness). Following a description and rationale of the program goals, the handbook briefly describes the student and teacher guides which are available separately. Suggestions and models for starting the program in a school or school system are included in the section on administering the program, along with recommendations for keeping the program going. The section on teaching the program gives an overview of the program and the structure of the units and lessons, guidelines for student evaluation, and descriptions of instructional approaches. The final section comprises a brief discussion of the method and results of the program evaluation. Appendices contain three essays which provide a comprehensive rationale for the program goals. (DC)

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