Education articles from December 2001

Education archives from December 2001

Guest editor World Model of Educational Leadership.(Editorial)
December 22, 2001... For many years London has served as the perfect image of a kind of "Capitol of the World," and where that superiority was boasted loud and clear by the old saying "The sun never sets on the British Flag." Times have changed, and certainly since...

Creating a node of cultural exchange: a strategic route to use educational technology to support student learning.
December 22, 2001... Urban educators can quickly become overwhelmed as they consider how best to integrate educational technology into classroom instruction to support student learning and achievement. While centralized initiatives have led to the installation of...

A college goes to school: the history of an urban collaboration.(Center for School/College Collaboratives)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Introduction Lehman College began the serious business of institutionalizing school/college collaboration in 1983. By establishing the Center for School/College Collaboratives, Lehman made a long-term commitment to collaborate with Bronx...

Collaboration: the foundation of learning in the future.
December 22, 2001... NetTech: An Introduction and Review Research and development are being conducted all over our planet to find ways to use technology to improve communication, health, finances, business, transportation and, in fact, every facet of life. The...

Technology in the classroom: lessons learned through professional development.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Introduction In the Fall of 1999, The Bronx High School Superintendent's Office in partnership with Community School District's 7 and 9 (1), and Syracuse University began the first year of a five year Federal Technology Challenge Grant....

The Bronx school district's quest to harness the educational potential of digital technology.
December 22, 2001... Creating HomeBase8[TM] Over the past twenty years educational entities large and small, urban and rural, serving pre-K children and graduates students have budgeted countless millions of dollars toward the purchase of digital technology...

Urban students cross the digital divide through laptop leasing program.
December 22, 2001... Project Overview Community School District (CSD) 10 is the largest school district in New York City and second largest to Buffalo, New York, with a population of 42,000 students, 87% of whom live at or below the poverty level. Our students...

The National Urban Technology Center and the Bronx Community Technology Centers Network.
December 22, 2001... The National Urban Technology Center (1) (Urban Tech) is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit company established to provide access to computer literacy and competency training to youth and families in inner city communities. ,Over the last six (6)...

Reflections on a 10 year distance learning project: NYClassNet.(Column)
December 22, 2001... NYClassNet - Building Connections Across New York City Schools It's hard to believe that nearly a decade has passed since the New York City Board of Education (1) stepped into the world of synchronous distance learning. In a pilot project...

Identity of the university professor is formulated over time, requiring self-discovery followed by being an intellectual scholar and teacher.
December 22, 2001... As we all know, tenure and promotion in academia depend upon success in publishing. And while we all heard the saying "publish or perish" ad nauseum in graduate school, there was one aspect to that saying that no one fully explained - what it...

The LIE score on the PDT serves as an index for creditability of test taker and test results.(Personal Development Test)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Third Force Psychology, only old since the 1960s, is Person-Centered, and is based largely on the theories described by Rogers (1945) and Maslow (1954). The American Psychiatric Association spent nearly a decade in the final development of...

Comparing Hall Marks for Success test scores between college students from South Africa and the United States.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... The present study sought to make comparison of Hall-Marks for Success in a Democracy between college students in South Africa and those in the United States. In 1987 The American Psychiatric Association introduced the "Global Function" concept...

JROTC cadets in leadership training display significantly higher personal development than typical students.
December 22, 2001... This year the annual one week MOWW JROTC Cadet Leadership training Program, as usual, was conducted at the Marine Recruit Depot in San Diego California. There were 86 high school JROTC cadets from all over California registered for the course....

Imagination: the missing link in curriculum and teaching.
December 22, 2001... In education, everyone talks about imagination but nobody really understands it. Intuitively, we know it is the most basic of human thought and somehow we also know it is good for students and we should promote its development. Still, it is...

Growing a community of high quality teachers: an urban professional development middle school.
December 22, 2001... Current reform efforts in America's schools focus on improving teaching quality and aligning teaching with the academic standards established for students. While other reform efforts have been attempted - such as establishing higher,...

The squeaky wheel gets the oil, but what about the shy student.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... It is not easy growing up shy. Some teachers and even principals say, "He has got to snap out of it." Others are sympathetic and listen to the needs of the shy student. With teachers asked to teach an increasingly diverse population of students...

Promoting teaching as a career among high school students through a field-based teacher education program.
December 22, 2001... The shortage of qualified teachers, along with the increasingly diverse student population in our nation's schools are important and overlapping issues in teacher education. According to the United States Department of Education (1998) over 52...

Second language learning and the teaching of grammar (1).
December 22, 2001... Many of us nave been to high school or college and we may have some experience of learning a second or foreign language in addition to our mother tongue. This language learning experience may either be positive or negative, but the majority of...

Teachers' report of how they used humor with students perceived use of such humor.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Introduction and Statement of Problem A study was conducted of 365 teachers in twelve public and private universities in Arkansas to determine the teachers' use of humor in the classroom; a 35 percent response rate was received. The results...

Evaluation of distance bridging nursing courses presented by tertiary institutions in South Africa.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Acknowledgement: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of the South African Nursing Council. Overview and Research Methodology of Distance Bridging Course Introduction Nurses are the backbone of...

Formulating new criteria for teacher candidate selection.
December 22, 2001... In an effort to improve the quality of education, states are demanding that American students master both core curriculum and instructional technologies -- "to assume their civic and social responsibilities in a democratic society, to compete...

Daily classroom assessment.
December 22, 2001... Assessment of one kind or another is always occurring in today's classrooms. Many teachers no longer find it necessary to give only written quizzes to collect information and form judgments about student performance. A student who always...

Student expectations.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... For those of us who work in schools each day, it is all too apparent that many students think very little about what they hope to gain from their schooling. These students come to school, go through the motions- -all with very little intensity,...

Shopping for Americulture.
December 22, 2001... Introduction Educators in American schools are teaching their students multiculturalism. Students are learning about people and their cultures from around the world. The students learn that people are different. This tends to promote a...

Perceptions of teachers' qualities by American and Bulgarian preservice teachers.
December 22, 2001... Differences in perceptions of important institutions often help us understand differences between cultures. Differences in the perceptions of educational institutions may provide useful insights into cultural differences as the role of...

A critical look at the use of videoconferencing in United States distance education.
December 22, 2001... Introduction Distance education, particularly via videoconferencing, has mushroomed in the United States in the last ten years. Today, it is possible for a student located almost anywhere in the country to attend a course or complete a...

American International schools: poised for the twenty-first century.
December 22, 2001... Nearly a quarter of a million American children attend schools located outside the United States. The children of military personnel primarily attend schools operated by the Department of Defense Dependent Schools (DoDDS), while civilian...

An analysis of middle school preservice faculty positions.
December 22, 2001... It is widely recognized that the developmental characteristics and educational needs of young adolescents require specialized middle school teacher preparation programs, which prepare future teachers for these diverse young adolescents....

Qualitative research strategies as prerequisite for quantitative strategies.
December 22, 2001... Introduction, Problem Statement and Aim For many years there has been an epistemological debate on what scientific research is about. The differences between quantitative and qualitative research have according to De Vos, Schurink and...

Intellectual indignation: getting at the roots of student resistance in an alternative high school program.
December 22, 2001... Introduction Mention of the term "alternative education" evokes a variety of responses from a variety of perspectives. This variety implies that there is a belief in more than one effective way to educate children. Alternative suggests an...