Education articles from December 1997

Education archives from December 1997

Telling it like it is about the African-American students' plight.(Cover Story)
December 22, 1997... The most segregated time of every week in America, it has been said, is eleven o'clock on Sunday mornings. On the Sunday morning of January 12, 1992, Milwaukee School Superintendent J. Howard Fuller made his way to Mount Carmel Lutheran...

Ebonics is defective speech and a handicap for Black children.
December 22, 1997... The controversy over ebonics, a word derived from the combination of ebony and phonics, raises serious questions about the place of proper speech, dialogue, and discourse. It involves information economy where standard English determines one's...

Constitutional protection for bazar multiple cultural practices.
December 22, 1997... Local school officials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin have had some major problems dealing with religious education within public school classrooms, and with drug dealing and usage as parts of religious rites of passage. These problems are typically...

Multiculturalism: making mathematics murky?
December 22, 1997... Introduction The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) claims in its reform documents (NCTM, 1989, 1991) that a comprehensive mathematics education of every child is the most compelling goal of the current reform in...

Intercultural communication within multicultural schools: educational management insights.
December 22, 1997... Introduction Most advanced countries comprise various heterogenous and multilingual cultures. * In the United States of America, there are over 180 ethnic groups. According to Klope (1995:3), more than 100 languages are spoken...

The laws of ignorance designed to keep slaves (Blacks) illiterate and powerless.
December 22, 1997... The Laws of Ignorance Although the African Black populations were typically illiterate, this does not mean they were unintelligent. Rather, they had been educated in skills, crafts, and traditions which were often lost during centuries...

Examining the impact of the Chinese educational system.
December 22, 1997... Introduction Purpose of the Study China has an education system that connects directly to industry. At age 10, each student joins the Communist Party and begins a record of performance which leads to credentials for a certain...

Children and poverty: how American higher education must respond for the 21st century.
December 22, 1997... Nearly three decades ago, Fantini and Weinstein (1968) in The Disadvantaged Challenge to Education cited a colleague commenting on the 1965 Higher Education Bill as stating, "historians may write of this cycle as the opening phase of an...

A demographic profile of U.S. middle school foreign language teachers.
December 22, 1997... Introduction In 1995, because of limited classroom-based research concerning middle school foreign language instruction, a national study was conducted that assessed the extent of the influence of the Oral Proficiency Movement in...

A call for strength: how to manage students for a more caring society.
December 22, 1997... During my first year of teaching I learned that the use of strength rather than toughness to manage my students held potential for creating a more caring society. My initial year consisted of lots of hopes, major responsibilities, and...

Boredom proneness in African-American college students: a factor analytic perspective.
December 22, 1997... A review of the research literature points to the unavoidable fact that the majority of African-American college/university students perceive their experience during higher education negatively (Berry & Asamen, 1989; Gardner, Keller, &...

Achievement motivation and college satisfaction in traditional and nontraditional students.
December 22, 1997... It has been proposed that there are many factors that promote or hinder the success of students in post-secondary educational institutions (lamport, 1993). Among these factors, achievement motivation and satisfaction with the college...

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: mountain or a mole hill?
December 22, 1997... Introduction During the past decade, more children have been identified as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, according to Foster (1989), only 6% of all school age students actually suffer ADHD. This is a...

Cooperative learning: an investigation of the knowledge and classroom practice of middle grades teachers.
December 22, 1997... Introduction As the United States moves toward the next century there appears to be a need more than even before for a populace that can work together to manufacture quality products, interact appropriately with diverse groups of...

Use of videotapes of exemplary mathematics teaching for teacher preparation.
December 22, 1997... Introduction In its Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (1991), the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommends that preservice teachers be provided opportunities to observe and analyze a range of approaches to...

The impact of recycling education on the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of grade school children.
December 22, 1997... A number of school systems have instituted environmental education programs to increase environmental awareness among their students. The primary goals of these programs are to increase environmental knowledge, instill proenvironmental...

Influence of ten leading educators on American education.
December 22, 1997... To attempt to identify ten educators throughout history who have influenced teaching and the public schools most in the United States is indeed a challenge. I have supervised student teachers (ST) in the public schools for approximately thirty...

The role of reinforcement in self-monitoring.
December 22, 1997... People's confidence in the correctness of their decisions is a topic that has intrigued service providers and caregivers since the early periods of this century (Cutler & Wolfe, 1989). Self-monitoring is a dispositional construct that shows a...

Examining the validity structure of qualitative research.
December 22, 1997... Discussions of the term "validity" have traditionally been attached to the quantitative research tradition. Not surprisingly, reactions by qualitative researchers have been mixed regarding whether or not this concept should be applied to...

Writing movement/dancing words: a collaborative pedagogy.
December 22, 1997... Introduction When we began to work together, one of us had no idea that dance could inform composition; the other had for several years been using writing metaphors and writing itself as a way to teach dance composition. But neither of...

To achieve school reform education leaders must focus on teacher self-concept.
December 22, 1997... With the constantly growing pressure for increased academic performance by students, especially that which is being measured by an ever-increasing variety of tests and perhaps even national testing, it is time to take less than casual looks at...

Determining the negative effect of teacher attendance on student achievement.
December 22, 1997... Criticism of education by the American public has been reflected in an increased number of studies on school performance conducted since 1982. Student test scores are one of the primary targets of this criticism. By the mid-1970s, academic...

Notes on the process of benchmarking in education.
December 22, 1997... The concept of benchmarking is well developed in certain technical and engineering fields. Many users of PCs have at least a passing familiarity with certain commonly advertised performance comparisons among hardware manufacturers and models....

In the heart of a child. (poem)
December 22, 1997... In the heart of a child Beasts the future of mankind A future filled with dreams Dreams that start in the heart And slowly shape clouds in the sky In the heart of a child Shines a smile, brighter than the sun...