Education articles from June 2001

Education archives from June 2001

THE PERSON-CENTERED HIGH SCHOOL IN AMERICA MUST BE A MICROCOSM OF A FULLY DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.(reduce dropout rate)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... The new Person-Centered High School in America must seek to epitomize democracy in action and become a microcosm of a fully democratic society if we are to reduce our prison population even a mite. The two million inmates, with one million of...

Preventing Early Learning Failure.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Sornson, Bob (2001). Preventing Early Learning Failure. Alexandia, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The author insists that we can not afford to let children in the early years of school fall into a pattern...

Arts With the Brain in Mind.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Jensen, Eric (2001). Arts With the Brain in Mind. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The author believes that we create our lives in a broadly artistic way, and that writing is some kind of art...

THIRD FORCE PSYCHOLOGY USED TO FOSTER HALL-MARKS FOR SUCCESS SERVES AS THE BASIS FOR DELINQUENCY AND CRIME PREVENTION.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... The two million prison inmates in the United States with half of them being high school drop-out students, and with a recent history of doubling in size over the last ten years creates a "nation at risk." Since about 80 percent of those two...

SECOND FORCE PSYCHOLOGY TO ASSESS COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AREAS AND RESTORE FULL SERVICE TO DELINQUENTS AND PRISON INMATES.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Second Force Psychology is presently the theory underlying the use of psycho-analysis throughout the health care facilities of the world, and serves as the principal means for health care with individuals displaying psychiatric disorders...

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC WEB SITES.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Introduction The Internet has rapidly become one of the most powerful information media of the century, with the number of web sites nearly doubling each year (Hibbard, Dalton & Thyfault, 1998; McCollum, 1997). The tremendous popularity of...

Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Brenneman, Tim (2001). Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking. Orville, Ohio: Grand Unification Press, Inc. The book tells about how older boys and girls tend to offer younger children cigarettes in the home, on the playground, and in the...

How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Tomlinson, Carol Ann 2nd Edition (2001). How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The author shows teachers how to differentiate, or...

POTGIETERSRUS AND VRYBURG IN SOUTH AFRICA: WHAT WENT WRONG? IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL MANAGERS.
June 22, 2001... Introduction "Conflict-free families, organisations or nations do not exist" (Van de Vliert, 1997:3). From the above-mentioned quotation it can be deduced that conflict is a universal concept in for instance organisations like schools....

DOES SOURCE OF SEX EDUCATION PREDICT ADOLESCENTS' SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND BEHAVIORS?
June 22, 2001... Many factors have been found to influence teen sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. For example, parent-child communication has been linked to greater sexual knowledge and more conservative sexual attitudes (Fisher, 1986). Similarly, of...

DEALING WITH EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: THE ONTARIO EXPERIENCE.
June 22, 2001... Introduction In the broader scheme of things change can be good; however, often in the shorter term educational change can cause disruption and insecurity among teachers (Hinson, 1991). Barton and Smith (1989) express this thought so...

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AT-RISK STUDENTS.(Angelica Fazio )(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Children from low-income, multi-ethnic neighborhoods generally do far more poorly, academically, than their middle-class counterparts. However, Angelica Fazio utilizes a method of teaching those children, and many other at-risk students to...

METAPHORICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ROLE OF WOMEN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS.
June 22, 2001... Carter and Cunningham (1997) emphasize the importance of the superintendency stating, "The American school superintendent is being called upon to take up the challenge of totally rethinking and fundamentally improving American education "(p....

TRANSFORMING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR PRESERVICE, INSERVICE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHERS THROUGH A COLLABORATIVE CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE.
June 22, 2001... Introduction In the fall of 1997, three faculty members from different departments were called upon to teach a course for education students who were out in their student teaching/intern placements. The three faculty didn't know each other...

LENGTH OF COURSE AND LEVELS OF STATISTICS ANXIETY.
June 22, 2001... Background In the spirit of Corey's "Action Research" of the 1950s, The Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) was administered to three classes taught by the same instructor, utilizing the same textbook, and using similar instructional...

A COMPARISON OF A 5-DAY WITH A 3-DAY 5-UNIT LANGUAGE COURSE: WHICH IS MORE EFFECTIVE?(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... In the United States, language courses are typically taught as 5-unit courses scheduled 5 days a week. Language program coordinators or chairpersons arranging class scheduling often juggle considerations in formulating a 5-day course or a 3-day...

Succeeding with Standards.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Carr, Judy F., and Harris, Douglas E. (2001). Succeeding with Standards. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The authors insist that standards are important in the classrooms, which is where they...

A Cry for Character.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Matea, Dary (2001). A Cry for Character (New York Times Best Selling Author) Paramus, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. (http://www.phdirect.com) It is the story about how a group of students cleaned up their high school and spawned a wildfire...

IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD.
June 22, 2001... Last June I was listening to a reporter on National Public Radio's Morning Edition interview teachers in New Jersey concerning testing teacher competency. From the intensity of the discourse, it was clear that there was a lot of tension and...

EFFECTIVE SCHOOL-COLLEGE PARTNERSHIPS, A KEY TO EDUCATIONAL RENEWAL AND INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT.
June 22, 2001... School-college partnerships offer significant promise for simultaneous educational renewal as defined by John Goodlad (1994). Based on Goodlad's view, both public schools and colleges of education must be renewed together. Renewal must be...

NEW PARADIGMS IN SCHOOL RELATIONSHIPS: COLLABORATING TO ENHANCE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
June 22, 2001... For the past twenty years, public concern about the quality of education received by students who attend the nation's public schools has fueled a major reform movement. This movement has progressed through many stages, fostering major...

EFFECTIVE SCHOOL PUBLIC RELATIONS.
June 22, 2001... A quality public relations emphasis is vital to any school. There needs to be good communication between the public schools and the lay publics. There are numerous publics to communicate with. These include parents, the business community,...

The Other Busing Story.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Eaton, Susan E. (2001). The Other Busing Story. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. METCO, America's longest running voluntary school desegregation program has for 34 years bused black children from Boston's city to...

ARE ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES REGARDING MAINSTREAMING CHANGING? A CASE OF TEACHERS IN TWO RURAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (U.S. Congress, 1975), and its subsequent amendments e.g., PL 105-17 (U.S. Congress, 1997), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), ensure that all children with...

Energizing Teacher Education and Professional Development with Problem-Based Learning.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Levin, Barbara B. Editor (2001). Energizing Teacher Education and Professional Development with Problem-Based Learning. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The purpose of the book is to provide a...

Using the Internet to Strengthen Curriculum.
June 22, 2001... The author insists that the World Wide Web has grabbed our school's attention because it turns every computer connected to it into a library. This, of course, means that it provides an instructional resource that allows up-to-date data and...

COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE SETTINGS AS A SPRINGBOARD FOR STUDENT CONSTRUCTED CASE STUDIES.
June 22, 2001... In a teacher preparation methods course for elementary and secondary education at the University of San Diego, the integration of community service learning and the development and application of the case methods are proving a powerful approach...

THE COMMUNICATIONS TRIANGLE OF PARENTS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, AND TEACHERS: A WORKSHOP MODEL.
June 22, 2001... Introduction Parents play an important role in the educational process (Becher, 1984). Research indicates that children whose parents are involved in schools have less behavior problems, increased achievement, and lower dropout rates. The...

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS OF FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES UNDERGRADUATES AND PROFESSIONALS.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the Georgia state affiliate of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences for mailing the surveys to their membership and all the members who took the time to complete the...

THE NONGRADED MIDDLE SCHOOL: CAN IT IMPROVE LIFE FOR EARLY ADOLESCENTS?
June 22, 2001... Although teaming is used in the middle school, it is most often organized around grade level teams and not cross grade teams. Eisner (1990) states that not only does an explicit curriculum shape a student's experiences, but the kind of place...

AN EXAMINATION OF COLLEGE-BOUND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' LABOR MARKET BEHAVIOR: WHY SOME STUDENTS WORK AND WHY SOME DO NOT.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Introduction Many more high school students engage in market-place work today than ever before. In 1940, the Bureau of the Census estimated that only 4 percent of 16-year old high school males and 1 percent of 16-year old high school...

THE ANTECEDENTS OF FAILURE AND EMERGING HOPE: AMERICAN INDIANS & PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION.
June 22, 2001... Indian education is a microcosm of the American Indian world. The problems that plague the Indian world are not only manifested but also accentuated in education. Though commonalities may be found with other "protected" classes or groups,...

COLLABORATING TO ESTABLISH STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY: LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT SYSTEMIC CHANGE.
June 22, 2001... Introduction Leaders in business and industry have known for some time that the majority of negative outcomes in organizations result from faulty systems, rather than ineffective people. For too long, the school community has ignored this...

THE MICROTEACHING EXPERIENCE: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES.
June 22, 2001... Over the past several decades, various activities and strategies have been implemented into Teacher Education methods courses in an attempt to increase the effectiveness of the courses, as well as the education programs overall. While some may...

HIGH SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY MEANS THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF ALL STUDENTS.
June 22, 2001... The present renewed emphasis for accountability in our high schools across the United States follows rather closely on "a nation at risk Report" in 1983 of our failing schools. Here the rather exclusive emphasis on academic achievement fails to...

GRADUATING SENIORS MAKE DEMOCRACY BECOME ALIVE BY EVALUATING THEIR HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... A substantial group of 81 graduating seniors as Pleasantville High School in New Jersey completed the Senior Student High School Rating Scale for the 2000/2001 school year This is the second year in a row that seniors completed this democratic...