The literature on wait time is reviewed and effects on students described. Different training procedures used to increase wait time are compared. The appropriateness of extending the wait time for students with special needs is also discussed. (MT)

The suicide of a competent and popular teacher required rapid but careful response by administrators at a midwestern high school. This article explains how faculty members and students were informed and how crisis specialists were brought in to help respond to strong student reactions. (PGD)

In October 1999 young adult author, Adam Rapp, was the first author-in-residence at Ridgewood High School, located outside Chicago. During his week at Ridgewood, Adam did readings and question and answer sessions for area 7th and 8th graders who came to the high school on field trips. He talked with the staff of the high school literary magazine…

Contrary to the initial hypotheses of this study, the best students were the ones with personality profiles most different from those of faculty, and, as the year progressed, students' dispositions became more distinct from the faculty. (Editors/JA)

This article discusses the attitudes of a group of college students who participated in a survey of students selected from four colleges and universities in the states of Florida and Mississippi. (Author)

An enterprising food service director has introduced student taste test panels and they have had great impact on the district's lunch program. (Author)

A discussion of how some good teachers'' actually promote student passivity instead of a desire to learn. (AK)

The events of the May 14, 1970 one-day moratorium at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are reported. (MM)

An inexpensive way to learn film making, which teaches script-writing, film editing, and all phases of film production. Student reaction to mock film making was favorable. (Author/JB)

Children, many of whom hate poetry," can be turned on by a single poem. (MB)

A diagram of one version of a multimedia poetry "happening and selected student reactions to the experience are included. (RD)

Educators in the humanities field should strive to teach people how to cope with the rules of society. (CK)