Singapore is an international leader in education as indicated by its students' results on international assessments. Because of this success in education, educators from around the world study the island nation to discover the "Singapore secret" and have begun to adopt its educational practices. This study examines how one school within…

The overall goal of the Building State Capacity Summit series was to enhance successful outcomes for students leaving high school, whether it is matriculation in a postsecondary education or training program, or employment. Young adults who are deaf or hard or hearing face barriers that inhibit these successful outcomes. One way to mitigate these…

Chinese vocational education is currently in its most optimal development period in history. This article discusses several challenges of different dimensions faced by vocational education in China as it develops, such as scale versus quality, development goals, a lifelong vocational education system, and creating model institutions; and puts…

NASSP's "This We Believe: Secondary Schools in a Changing Society" is acclaimed by many as one of the most perceptive studies ever published on secondary education. Because of its popularity the editors of the "Bulletin" present an outline of the study's central themes. (Editor/RK)

Article listed guiding principles for the upper secondary school curriculum of the post-industrial society as an attempt to meet the educational needs of the young people of today and the citizens of tomorrow. (Author/RK)

A good student in a social studies classroom is one who thinks seriously about his/her work and seeks to find the reason behind the understanding of certain tasks. The student should aim at developing a wide range of skills to enable him/her to participate in discussions and make competent decisions. Educational programs should present various…

Article presented the impressions of the author who toured Russia in October 1973 with a group of American journalists and visited Soviet schools. (Editor/RK)

Five goals are suggested for making a choral festival benefit participants musically: (1) meet the specific musical needs of the students; (2) expose students to a guest conductor; (3) acquaint students with a challenging repertory; (4) develop performance techniques; and (5) introduce teacher-conductors to rehearsal techniques. (Author/SJL)

Described is a secondary school, risk recreation program based on adventure, cooperation, direct experience, and personality integration. The three-phase program (physical preparation, group trust, rope courses) offers students the experience of working in groups and of testing themselves against the real world. (MJB)

This paper reports on the social factors influencing the learning of two cohorts of school students and their experience of compulsory secondary education in a city in southern England - the secondary schooling phase of a 12-year, longitudinal ethnographic study that also tracked the same children's experiences through primary schooling. We embed…

The transition from upper secondary to undergraduate university education in Australia is examined. It is suggested that in the student's first year of university, the year 13, increased efforts must be made to make the student aware of the dual nature of education; i.e., the acquisition of knowledge as well as social responsibility. (LBH)

IDENTIFICATION OF MENTALLY GIFTED STUDENTS WAS BASED ON A SCORE OF 130 OR ABOVE ON THE REVISED STANFORD-BINET SCALE, A SCORE AT OR ABOVE THE 98TH PERCENTILE ON A GROUP TEST OF MENTAL ABILITY AND ON A STANDARDIZED TEST OF READING OR MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT, AND THE JUDGMENTS OF TEACHERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. GIFTED CHILDREN…

Current reports and recommendations on needed improvements in American secondary education, part of a long history of criticisms of the high school and of proposals for its reform, were discussed. (Author/RK)

In order to begin an analysis of why students and their teachers come to school, observations, anecdotal recording, and interaction analysis systems must be keyed to answering several basic questions about the cultural and personal values of the teacher and the student. Discusses society's dominant values and a value analysis designed to help…

This document serves as an instructional text for teaching students the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) competencies. The SCANS competencies encompass basic skills (reading, writing, and arithmetic), thinking skills (creative thinking, decision-making, reasoning and problem-solving), and personal qualities such as…