Education articles from September 1994

Education archives from September 1994

Reduction of a classroom behavior problem through a multiple-element intervention.
September 22, 1994... Decreasing inappropriate behaviors and increasing the on-task behaviors of students with developmental disabilities is a primary concern of classroom teachers and parents. A variety of behavioral procedures have been used to accomplish these...

Educating minority students for the health professions: taking a quantum leap to meet the challenge.
September 22, 1994... The Challenge Health care reform in the United States has emerged as the most important social issue for the 90s. An essential component of this reformation is the need to change the system currently used to educate health professionals. The...

A strategy for maintaining the idealistic perceptions of preservice teachers.
September 22, 1994... Through the years, educators have pondered how to preserve the idealism of preservice teachers in the midst of the pragmatism of practicing professionals. The humaneness, ideals, energy, commitments, and most of all, the university promulgated...

Service learning: a new approach in higher education.
September 22, 1994... During the fall semester of 1990, the Southern University System became the first public institution in the state of Louisiana to require its students to render sixty clock hours of community volunteerism for graduation. It was envisioned that...

A special educational milestone: Southern University inaugurates its doctoral program.
September 22, 1994... Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been provided inadequate resources for establishing graduate programs, especially graduate programs beyond the master's level. Of the 107 HBCUs in the United States, fifteen currently...

The critical need for teachers of preschoolers with special needs and their families: Southern University's response.
September 22, 1994... Since the late nineteenth century, a demand for teachers specifically trained to use current methods of teaching young children in preschool settings has increased (McLean & Johnston, 1992). Responding to that demand, colleges and universities...

Role of Washington and his war family as architects of the U.S. Constitution.
September 22, 1994... The story of how Washington's Wav Family served as architects of the U.S. Constitution. Anderson's Masonic Constitutions of 1723 served as the basis for the Virginia plan, which was supported by Washington's war family and became the nucleus for...

A survey of college students' reactions to their K-12 teachers and schools.
September 22, 1994... We surveyed 200 college freshmen for their reactions to their school experiences and teachers by asking them to fill out a questionnaire which included the following questions: 1. What are some of your most vivid, positive memories of school...

Academic motivation as a moderator of the effects of teacher immediacy on student cognitive and affective learning.
September 22, 1994... According to the process model of instruction (Nisbet and Entwistle, 1988), student learning is affected not only by what is taught in relation to students interests and abilities and even how it is taught, but also by the relationship between...

Eight principles for 'total quality' schools.
September 22, 1994... In June, 1991, from a video screen in the Galleria Marriot in Houston, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the American who came up with the Japanese theory of management, asked 700 individuals in middle-management the question "How are we doing?" He then...

Principals as facilitators for school site-based management team.
September 22, 1994... Background and Introduction Many of the current proposals for educational reform include recommendations for site-based management (Leithwood, 1992; Lindquist & Mauriel, 1989). The philosophy underlying the recommendation for site-based...

The status of teacher preservice preparation for parent involvement: a national study.
September 22, 1994... A National Study Over the past decade, research articles and position statements have consistently supported parent involvement in the education process. Research has found that children perform better academically when their parents are...