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The article focuses on the importance of alternative education programs to dropout students in the U.S. It mentions that students who do not thrive and succeed in regular school setting have been given the chance to receive schooling through alternative education. It states that the creation of an environment which is beneficial to learning and meets the needs of the student is the basis of the design for alternative education models. It says that high school student dropouts have been showing differences in behavior, academic achievement, and grade retention rates. Moreover, the effectiveness of the alternative education will depend on the mission of schools and agencies as well as the community.

The article discusses the study on the relationship of the principal's longevity in a school, years of experience in the position, educational level, efficacy and leadership behavior to the scores of first time takers on the Georgia High School Graduation test (GHSGT) and the possibility that these variables can predict GHSGT student scores. This study, which was done in line with the exposure to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, used an instrumentation that utilized the Principal Demographic Information Questionnaire as the key aspect. Moreover, it explores the mixed-methods design of the study, using both qualitative and quantitative approach and the data collection and analysis. The role of principal efficacy in student achievement and its implications to the practice are explored.

Provides information on several psychology organizations in the United States. Experimental Psychologists; Local and regional associations of the American Psychological Association; National Academy of Sciences.

The article discusses the importance of public health in the society. The statistics of the nation's health recently gathered by able investigators show clearly that a strictly individualistic policy will not work in the public interest. These facts were brought out in the reports of the Technical Committee on Medical Care to the National Health Conference held in 1938 in Washington. They concern the need for expansion of maternal and child services, hospital facilities, medical care for the medically needy and the necessity for a general program of public health service. For many reasons hospitals are essential for realizing an adequate health program. The Health Conference also calls attention to organic and occupational diseases. Tuberculosis, pneumonia, cancer, malaria, mental and nervous disorders, industrial injuries, and occupational diseases--these and other specific ailments are far more prevalent or more deadly than they need be. In its survey of the medically needy, the Health Conference reiterated the fact that the combined evidence of numerous studies of sickness and death rates among various economic classes of the population indicates that sickness occurs more often and with greater severity among the poor.

No particular group among the people have a monopoly on security. Unemployment is a major cause of insecurity. It is estimated that a million or more men are out of work when times are good. Unemployment, low income and an inadequate diet multiplies insecurity, because it results in poor health. The Social Security Act refers to the public welfare in those titles that make grants for maternal and child welfare and for extension of public health work. Administration of these provisions is entirely outside the Social Security Board's obligations under the Law. For carrying out the purposes of the Act, the Social Security Board and the Office of Executive Director have been provided. The decentralization necessary for administering a law of the scope of the Social Security Act in a country as vast as the U.S. is had in the regional offices and in the State governments. While the U.S. are responsible for administering the major portions of the Act, the Social Security Board is accountable for carrying out Congress' policy.

This article discusses the trends of governments in the counties of the United States. Seven years ago it required a considerable optimist to see any signs of progress in county government. In 1930 there were 10 counties that had expanded the powers of one of their officers-clerk, auditor, or chairman of the county board into some semblance of a responsible executive. In 1932 there were signs of unrest in the counties. The farmers were justifiably dissatisfied with the cost of a government that was returning few services. Tax payers were organizing without any effort at all. The dark days of the depression offered a rare opportunity for prescient leaders to tie governmental reforms in with the universal and natural clamor for tax reduction. One of the most persistent trends in county government is the flow of functions and of power to the State. The breakdown of the general property tax has facilitated this flow. Segregation of sources of revenue, now in use in Virginia and other states, has aided it. An appeal to the spirit for local self-government has not been able to stop it.

There have been abundant plans like these, departmental, functional, jurisdictional, and business planning, but as the National Resources Board says: there has been little general, coordinated, over-all planning by social and natural scientists for the purpose of conserving the human and economic resources. An impetus to the kind of planning described by the National Resources Board was given by U.S. President Herbert Hoover's Commission on Social Trends which reported in 1932. "That the type of planning now most urgently required is neither economic planning alone, nor governmental alone. The new synthesis must include the scientific, the educational, as well as the economic and the governmental. All these factors are inextricably intertwined in modem life and it is impossible to make rapid progress under present conditions without drawing them all together."

The article discusses the August 2009 meeting of the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA) held in Toronto, Ontario. Topics discussed include: APA budget cutbacks, including reduced funding for the Archives of the History of American Psychology; withdrawal of the APA from the American Council of Learned Societies; and changes to the APA ethical standards.

The article discusses presentations on the history of psychology at two conferences, the 2010 annual meetings of the Southeastern Psychological Association in Chattanooga, Tennessee in March, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in Atlanta, Georgia in April. Paper topics discussed include the lives and work of U.S. psychologists such as Irwin Jay Knoft, Dorothy W. Seago, and Lula Stevens.

An acute contemporary problem has been caused by the drastic decline in public revenue forcing the use of various expedients to enable states to live within their income. When the U.S. was in depths of the economic crisis, the big concern of state governments was to balance the budget. Every southern commonwealth has tried earnestly to do this by (1) pro-rata cuts in the appropriations; (2) by exploiting old sources or finding new sources of revenue; and (3) by government reorganization. However, as the dawn breaks and no doubt influenced by the contagious optimism of the National Administration, some states now are not nearly so insistent on a balanced budget. Virginia's financial position has been pointed to with pride. The Old Dominion has the reputation of being well and conservatively governed. Her total state debt, one-half of which antedates the Civil War, is only $22,000,000. Among money lenders, her credit rating is high. It was, however, the desire of recent administrations to maintain this good credit during the financial crisis that desperate efforts were made to keep the budget balanced.