Interviews with parents, students, and staff members at a school of 850 seventh and eighth graders yielded a set of 8 fairly universal guidelines for creating and maintaining a safe learning environment. The high expectations the school had for its students was one response that was unanimous. (MLF)

One challenging part of being a middle school physical education teacher is maintaining student behavior while promoting a productive learning environment. The article explains how to use positive discipline to manage student misbehavior and help students see gymnasium participation as a reward. (SM)

A study of Anglo and Hispanic student attitudes reports on the expanding responsibility of the school, the students' city environment, work-related variables measured, and student profiles. No differences were found between Hispanic and Anglo students in terms of attitude toward work itself, social fairness, and the relationship between school…

Special programs for learning-disabled students have limited effectiveness because learning outcome is not determined by remedial education setting. Effective programs must consider cognitive ability, strategic repertoire, previously acquired skills and concepts, and awareness of the goal each task must achieve. Psychological assessment provides…

Retention of minority college students is elusive because many institutions have not made a full commitment to it, as is apparent in faculty, curriculum, and corporate culture. Unrealistic expectations, racism, funding, college environment, faculty interaction with students, and parental role must be addressed before a solution is found. (MSE)

A survey of 1,127 college-bound African-American high school juniors investigated what help they had in the college choice process, how they described their preferred kind of college, their most important college choice criteria, their life goals, their perceptions of minority recruitment strategies, and their most desired college academic and…

Describes a Dutch study of the daily evaluation procedures and instructional decisions of 50 regular and special education teachers over six weeks. Teachers evaluated virtually all the tasks assigned to students, most informally, but did not deviate from their instructional plans on the basis of evaluation results. (DMM)

High school teachers (n=89) rated the importance of 14 student skills and the reasonability of 35 intervention strategies related to mainstreaming. Student skills deemed most important were study skills useful in every class. Factor analysis of intervention strategy results revealed seven factors, and teachers' preferred intervention strategies…

The authors of EC 604 295 examine their developing interest in teachers' perceptions of their peers' effectiveness in teaching difficult students, consider questions raised after seeing results of their study, and outline implications of this line of research in the future. (JDD)

Examines (1) how understanding others in educational contexts relates to understanding the practices of curriculum and (2) how the practices of curriculum encourage everyone involved to reflect upon who they are becoming in the field of education. The article focuses on the experiences of graduate students in English education. (SM)

A study examined the influence of male and female professors' communication styles on participation rates of: a group of college students, individual students, and males and females. Analysis of videotaped seminars indicated professors' communication styles facilitated the communication climate. Communication styles influenced student…

Describes the concept of reflective teaching which involves recollecting and giving a voice to previously adopted presuppositions that influence an individual's life. This article presents journal entries which document one student teacher's personal explication of the learning community as it is enacted moment by moment. (SM)

Analyzes the perceptions and expectations of 35 African-American parents regarding African-American independent schooling, using the framework of M. K. Asante (1980). Interviews with these parents suggest that Afrocentrism is a process of individual transformation. More African-American parents are looking at schooling in broader social contexts.…

Examines career and family role expectations and attitudes of female university students and both of their parents. Data from 292 families reveal rather traditional attitudes toward mothering, egalitarian attitudes toward marital roles, and little frustration about future career and family roles. Age, sex, and socioeconomic differences are…

A training program for faculty supervising pharmacy clinical experience courses included four workshops in setting expectations, motivating learners, providing practice, and evaluating performance and giving feedback. Ten of 35 teaching behaviors changed significantly as a result. Likelihood of change in specific teacher behaviors was assessed.…