This issue of Northwest Education explores some of the ways that the region is changing territory: radically reengineering large comprehensive high schools into smaller, more personalized academies and learning communities; encouraging all students--not just an elite few--to take advanced placement and international baccalaureate courses; tying…

This issues paper, the third in a series of eight, is intended to distill formative evaluation questions on topics that are central to the development of the higher and further education information environment in the United Kingdom. The sets of ideas about "good" learning in issues papers 1 and 2 are no longer the private preserve of…

In the last 20 years, research on language has gone from an area that specialists in composition and rhetoric took quite seriously to one that specialists now pay little attention to. This shift can be accounted for because (1) some teachers appear to have given up on using any insights from linguistic analysis in their teaching of composition;…

Millions of young children in the United States are cared for daily by someone other than their parents, and a growing number are cared for in child-care centers. This research and policy brief, a quarterly synthesis of issues addressed by investigators and affiliates of the National Center for Early Development & Learning, focuses on quality…

This book focuses on understanding knowledge and learning in the contexts of economic development and social cohesion. A preliminary overview is presented of the knowledge processes at work in different sectors, and the book identifies a number of ways in which microlevel or sectoral understanding of the knowledge-based economy is important in…

The Teacher Followup Survey (TFS) is a 1-year followup of a sample of teachers who were originally selected for the Teacher Questionnaire of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of the National Center for Education Statistics. There have been three data cycles for the SASS and three TFS versions. This data file user's manual enables the user to…

The Teacher Followup Survey (TFS) is a 1-year follow-up of a sample of teachers who were originally selected for the Teacher Questionnaire in the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), an integrated set of surveys of public and private schools. There have been three data cycles for the SASS, and three for the TFS. The data in this report links…

This report is among the first to gather data on what really works to increase under-represented students interest and success in quantitatively based occupations. The report also compiles specific recommendations based on that data. Data from a variety of sources show that although African American, Hispanic, and American Indian students who go…

The goal of scaling up of educational innovation is to produce robust, effective, replicable outcomes. This report addresses requirements to support scale-up of scientifically vetted innovation (or new ideas that are built on the findings of quality research and development). In this report, a number of issues are considered: the context of…

Considered rehabilitation programs that are designed to provide various services to the handicapped and the effect of implementing a communications network. (RK)

Today's white researchers are perhaps counterproductive in black communities not because they are white, but because they are poorly trained: equally if not more important are the values which the researcher acquires as a result of his professional training. (Author/JM)

Attempts to delineate some grounds for expansion of the knowledge base within the field of minority studies and more generally within sociology: minority research is seen as one acute instance of a general malaise in sociology. (Author/JM)

Article concentrates on historians who are becoming proficient in utilizing computer technology for research purposes. (RK)

A primary objective of the utilization of historical research in teaching American History is to develop the students' ability to locate needed information when he wants it and in relation to the issue that has motivated the search. (Author)