AS part of its continuing work with teachers and students, TIME'S Education Program last February distributed the first of a series of classroom-discussion kits dealing with controversial social issues. Called Black and White America, it proved so valuable that this week a second pamphlet. Drugs and the Young, will be distributed free to 5,500 teachers in the U.S. and Canada, plus another 300 overseas. The pamphlet will also be available to the public at $1.50 per copy.

The idea originated with the Education Program's Brian Brown. "The drug problem is real, but teachers didn't know how to handle the subject because there was nothing definitive available," says Brown. Another sign was the response to TIME'S Sept. 26 cover on drugs: In addition to several thousand requests for permission to reprint, we were gratified to hear of one suburban teen-ager who told her mother: "If you read only one thing about drugs, read TIME'S cover." The new pamphlet is a collaboration between TIME Contributing Editor Christopher Cory, who wrote the original cover story, and Public Affairs' Raymond Godfrey, who contributed new research, including material for an important section, "Toward a Drugless Turn-On," offering suggestions on how to encourage youngsters to consider less risky ways of getting high on life.

TIME'S cover story this week examines the nation's newest--and of course oldest--freedom fighter, the American Indian, who is now seeking the means for protest and redress after more than a century of patience and passivity. Edited by Jason McManus and written by Ed Magnuson and Keith Johnson, the article drew on the research of Washington Correspondent Richard Saltonstall as well as the reports of TIME stringers in Anchorage, Carson City, Seattle and Phoenix. For at least two of the many people who contributed to it, the project had a special meaning. New York Correspondent James Willwerth, who did much of the reporting, has sponsored an Indian child through the Save the Children Federation. She is a White Mountain Apache girl of eleven; Willwerth contributes $15 monthly to her support, and visited her in Arizona while working on the story. Researcher Linda Young staked her claim to the assignment years ago. She regularly visits Arizona's Indian lands on vacation, and last year even bought a piece of the state--1 1/2 acres of juniper and manzanita shrub near Flagstaff.

The Cover: Appliqued banner by Norman Laliberte. The artist depicts no particular tribesman nor any specific art motif. "The Indian is much more universal," says Laliberte. "I tried to use the colors they use and to relate the Indian to the bird, representing freedom and peace." By positioning the bird atop the figure, Laliberte intends it as a kind of crown "to show the kingship and the power before the white man came."

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