The purpose of this article is to provide an example of using real world issues as tools for science teaching and learning. Using real world issues provides students with experiences in learning in problem-based environments and encourages them to apply their content knowledge to solving current and local problems.

Throughout human history, violence against women has occurred in every part of the world. Abuse is a serious problem facing women with disabilities in our country. In addition to experiencing all forms of abuse, women with disabilities also suffer abuse unique to their disabilities and for longer periods of time when compared to women without…

Discusses the social importance of sex education programs and the responsibility of public schools to provide this curriculum. (GB)

This paper argued that professional schools must adjust enrollments to meet public needs and must reorganize their curriculums in order to inculcate a broader sense of social responsibility on the part of the neophyte professionals and thereby assist in altering existing service models and delivery systems. (Editor/RK)

Actual empirical research that explores East Asian female international students' identity development is lacking. Therefore, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate how five East Asian female international students' identities are developed in a second-language environment, the United States. Challenging the conceptual approach that…