Provides explicit guidelines for constructing a model student athlete support program. Proposes that the ideal program should include academic support, career counseling, and personal development for student athletes. Argues that higher education institutions should set the precedence of developing life skills and promoting academic achievement…

Since home is the most unequal environment in education, school should be an arena of equity. Alternative education can catalyze America's unrealized hopes by helping poor, discouraged youngsters overcome their most debilitating handicaps: rampant pessimism, failure to trust in effort, and mistrust of societal institutions. Doing nothing is not an…

Discusses the benefits of students participating in art classes, focusing on the development of students. Explains that art education: (1) fosters a joy of learning; (2) supports intellectual, emotional, and social growth; (3) prepares leaders of the future; and (4) inspires students. (SM)

A study assessed reflectivity in college students in general education environmental studies courses, using a reflective judgment-developmental instruction model designed to help students examine their epistemic perspectives. The developmental instructional students (n=28) had significantly higher reflective judgment change scores than students in…

A program in which 12 seventh- and eighth-grade students with learning disabilities and/or culturally diverse backgrounds participated with nondisabled peers in service learning is described. The students improved their social skills and self-esteem through community service with younger students and senior citizens. The article offers a rationale…

College recruiters, especially those wishing to empower poor and disadvantaged students, can no longer use economic inducements to encourage people to attend college. Such tactics are a disservice to the student, community, and admissions profession. Emphasis should be on creating an environment in which each student can develop his full…

Development of self-images of two preservice secondary teachers over a one-year training course are described to illustrate conflicts between image and learning to teach. Both ambiguity over image and a clear articulation of image can present difficulties to the beginning teacher. A reconceptualization of image as a form of argument is proposed.…

Our higher education system does not nurture the inner lives of students or help them acquire the self-understanding that is the basis for a satisfying life, nor does it provide the safe and nurturing environment people need in order to grow. What is needed is a more holistic way of conceiving education, one that accepts the importance of…

Summarizes research on the effects of the transition from elementary school to middle school on young adolescents. Notes problems of this transition in academic performance and in students' perceptions of school and self-perceptions, and of the mismatch of developmental needs with school environment. (JPB)

Investigates sociocultural and family factors that contribute to children's academic achievement among 40 European American (EA) and 40 second-generation Chinese American (CA) preschool and kindergarten children. CA children outscored EA children in mathematics at all three intervals, and were better readers by the third interval. CA parents…

Poses questions that probe possibilities regarding the knowledge base of teacher education and the importance of a foundation of teacher education, considering the possibility of trustworthiness as a cornerstone for that foundation and looking to the potential of self-study for developing a pedagogy of teacher education as a way to respond to…

Examined the developmental concerns of preservice elementary teachers in a paired peer placement peer coaching program who were randomly paired for their first teaching experience. Data from students' observations, feedback, and reflections on their teaching experiences indicated that students developed across a continuum of concerns from…

Examines adventure-based counseling in a school environment and how experiencing personal growth and cohesiveness extends to the classroom setting. In addition to a description of adventure-based counseling, examples of sessions are included with explanations of activities and processing questions that illustrate the usefulness of adventure-based…

Critical thinking is an important outcome of college. Current research in this area pertaining to Greek organizations is of importance to student-affairs administrators who want to create learning communities for and with students. Offers strategies for success to be used by Greek organizations, student affairs personnel, and college faculty. (MKA)

Discussion of problems associated with graduate thesis supervision includes a report of a 1995 survey of Australian universities which found that such evaluations were minimal. Also identifies issues emerging from student-supervisor focus groups, including the importance of relational aspects of supervision and systematic feedback. Notes the lack…