Teachers, principals, school systems, parents, and textbook publishers have been blamed for students' failure to meet tougher standards. Instead, expectations for achieving unreasonable state and Goals 2000 standards should be critically examined. Testing state legislators, school board members, administrators, and teachers might illuminate the…

Maintains that the lines of distinction between children and adults are blurring in American culture. Describes popular belief in response to brain research overemphasizing infant and toddler nurturing to the detriment of long-term parental and educational responsibilities. Criticizes how parents are encouraged to think of children as autonomous,…

Examines the relative emphasis placed on different student competencies by 248 faculty members in disparate theory-based clusters of academic departments. Findings suggest that faculty create distinctive academic environments inclined to require, reinforce, and reward their preferred patterns of student abilities and interests in a manner…

Applies an established model of organizational alignment to distance education in postsecondary institutions and recommends performance-oriented approaches to support growth by analyzing goals, structure, and management practices across the organization. Presents performance improvement strategies such as benchmarking and documenting workflows,…

This case study describes an action research project that explored the relationship between a supervisor and a dissertation student who was following an in-service Master's course for teachers. Focuses on initial expectations of both the supervisor and the student in relation to their one-to-one relationship. (Author/LRW)

Examined emotion regulation decisions and outcome expectations following emotionally expressive behavior in fifth, eighth, and eleventh graders as a function of goals, age, and gender. Found that participants distinguished between vignettes characterized by prosocial versus self-protective goals. Goal type influenced emotional regulation decisions…

Research reveals gaps between university instructors' and students' perspectives on academic writing, honesty, and classroom processes. Instructors should endeavor to understand student perspectives and be explicit about their expectations and intentions. (Contains 33 references.) (SK)

The superintendent of schools in Providence, Rhode Island reflects on her own personal odyssey, asserting that society must expect more from poor and minority children. She discusses areas for focused effort, such as literacy. (EV)

A study examined the expectancy beliefs and values of parents of 231 students (ages 6-18) attending programs at four music institutions, regarding their child's music training, regular academic work, and athletic activities. Parents saw greater potential in their children in both music and academic areas, but not necessarily in athletics.…

Describes the new approaches to integration taken by three urban charter schools. Although the models used by these schools differed, all were committed to high expectations for all students and a high level of support from the school, bolstered by community involvement. (SLD)

Reports results from two studies, involving 1,267 and 147 college students that explored students' role-balance expectations for their future career, marital, and parental identities. Results from both studies provide evidence that contradicts previous assumptions about gender differences in expectations for work and family roles. (SLD)

This paper focuses on the educational experiences of a group of African Caribbean and mixed "race" young people from the perspectives of their parents. The discussion is set within a national context where children of African Caribbean origin are one of the lowest achieving minority ethnic groups in the UK and are disproportionately one…

This study tested whether each of the four main aspects of rational thinking decreased expected relationship dissatisfaction when imagining having a serious disagreement with either a romantic partner or closest friend. The four features, common to cognitive theories of therapy, were the tendency not to exaggerate negative effects, not to demand…

This paper discusses the method and results of an evaluation of general education mathematics courses. Students at the University of Louisville were surveyed in the first week of the Fall 2000 semester to determine their expectations for their mathematics course. Student grades were examined to determine how student expectations related to student…

The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze transition into elementary classrooms of students in a master of arts in teaching (MAT) program. Data sources included feedback, written observations and internship evaluations of students, informal conversations with mentoring teachers, and formal interviews with two mentors. One mentor worked…