The problem of this study was to determine if there was a difference in the self-concept of two groups of ninth-grade students when one group received the services of junior and senior students in a Peer Assistance and Leadership class. The results of the Piers-Harris Children's—Self—Concept Scale were used to determine the difference between the mean self-concept scores of the two groups and also to determine if there was a relationship between the criterion variable of the total self-concept score and eight predictor variables as identified by House Bill 1010: Limited English proficiency, age, school attendance, achievement scores two or more years below grade level in reading and mathematics on a norm-referenced test, failure to master any portion of the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills, failure in two or more subjects, grade retention, and eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch. A total of 105 students, 50 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group, participated. The findings revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean self-concept scores of the two groups. The correlation revealed that there were significant differences between self-concept and the variables of mathematics achievement scores, failing grades, and eligibility for free lunch.

Photograph of the Plehwe Complex in Leon Springs, Texas.

Photograph of the Stagecoach Inn in Helotes, Texas.

Photograph of the Stagecoach Inn in Helotes, Texas.

Photograph of the Stagecoach Inn in Helotes, Texas.

Photograph of the Stagecoach Inn in Helotes, Texas.

Photograph of the Plehwe Complex in Leon Springs, Texas.

Photograph of the Plehwe Complex in Leon Springs, Texas.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Letter from Fredric a. Weiss to the San Antonio Media Center (SAMC) board. The letter reads as a summary of activities which have taken place with an organization of high school students interested in careers in the media. He discusses bake sales, television programs, and other activities they have performed.

Letter from Lou Nelle Sutton from the House of Representatives to John Sanders, president of Organizations United for Eastside and Development. She thanks him for his concern over a plaque that bore her name and the names of board members in the Bexar County Cancer Center.

Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, public information officer of Organizations United for Eastside Development, to Dan McKinnon, chairperson of Civil Aeronautics Board. Mr. Salas has written to request that South African Airways be denied permission to land in Houston in light of South Africa's civil rights violations and treatment of black South Africans.

Photograph of Miss Texas USA cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing loose striped pants, a black tank top, and a sash denoting her title. An older man wearing a shirt and tie is standing to the left of her.

Photograph of children holding clusters of balloons at the opening ceremonies at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are facing the right on the right side of the photograph. On the left a group of girls are wearing traditional Dutch bonnets and dresses.

Photograph of the opening ceremony procession at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Led by a woman in highland dress playing bagpipes, a crowd of people are coming down the walkway from the veranda of the Institute of Texan Cultures building. Pennant flags are strung from the roof of the building down to the sides of the walkway.

Photograph of a man cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Scissors in hand, he has just split the ribbon while three other festival officials are standing beside him. To the left of him, a woman in highland dress is holding bagpipes. To the right is a woman wearing a sun hat, and a man smoking a pipe.

Photograph of a Cajun band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a young man is playing pedal steel. Behind him a is a violinist and some amplifiers.

Photograph of Jim and Mary Hebert dancing in front of the Cajun Stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The area is shaded with trees.

Photograph of a milking demonstration sponsored by the Alamo Area Dairy Goat Association within the Texas Folklife Festival, in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a young man is seating on a concrete block, milking a goat as festival participants watch.

Photograph of Golden Triangle Cajun Club members in a rowboat beside Cajun Country at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman is waving toward the camera while the man picks up an oar. On the other side of the pond, festival booths are visible.

Photograph of Filipino Americans teaching festival visitors the tinikling dance in the San Antonio Tinikling School at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Pairs of dancers kneeling on the ground are beating and tapping bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers and visitors who are stepping over and in between the poles in a dance.

Photograph of a washtub bass player in the Bill Smallwood Band performing on a covered stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a button-up shirt, suspenders, jeans and boots.

Photograph of the Bill Smallwood Band performing on a covered stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, Bill Smallwood is playing banjo and singing. Other band members performing include a harmonica player at center stage, a man in the back playing drums, and a man playing washtub bass on the right.

Photograph of Cajun Country at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, the area is labeled with a sign on the grass that says, "Cajun Country." In the foreground and wrapping around the area is a pond. In the background, festival booths are lined up with canopies covering them.