This guide is intended to be a tool to help educators and curriculum developers create curricula that reflect a comprehensive approach to learning and teaching in and through art. The guide is linked directly to the National Standards for Arts Education. The guide has several components, including: (1) 18 ability areas in art based on the four art…

This study, commissioned by The Abell Foundation, analyzes new teachers hired by the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) over the past several years. In particular, the study compares different categories of new teachers: those with full professional certification, teachers in alternative certification programs (Teach for America, the…

This report examines the numbers and types of degrees and other awards conferred by Connecticut institutions of higher education in 2002-03 and compares that data with recent trends and statewide needs. These annual figures reflect the number of degrees awarded between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003. Disciplines are categorized according to the…

This annual bulletin, formerly prepared and published by the National Association of State Universities, has been published by the Bureau of Education for the past six years. The data, given are taken from reports received from the offices of the presidents of the various institutions, and the figures printed are substantially as given in those…

This document contains the October 1948 through June 1949 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, veterans' education and training, adult education, legislation before Congress, public health, education…

The "Getting Ahead of the Need: Comprehensive Counseling for Elementary Schools" grant was awarded by the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program through the U.S. Department of Education to improve elementary school counseling prevention and intervention services offered in the Austin Independent School District. This report summarizes…

A rationale is offered for training teachers in the various fine arts and for training teachers who are specialists in art education. Elementary school teachers need more grounding in subject matter disciplines, and art educators should be steeped in the art they are teaching. (PP)

The assumption that educational expansion is linked to increased equality of opportunity is discounted in an examination of the status of women faculty in five British universities from 1963 to 1980. It was found that, despite an auspicious social context, but given certain structural and attitudinal resistances, the inequality of women faculty…

The quest for the powers and skills of informed judgment, for the dual capacities of appreciation and criticism should stand as the goal of every level of the college curriculum. The fundamentals of a college education are seen as decisions between interpretations and the skill of understanding interpretations. (MLW)

Two multi-disciplinary case studies of the patterning of incidents of disruptive behavior in English comprehensive schools are discussed. The global school approach, using data gathered by non-observational monitoring, provided information not usually found on timing and the nature of disruptions and offers an alternative to piecemeal intervention…

Describes a research study involving 120 pupils from Scottish comprehensive schools which measured pupils' reactions to different teaching styles designed to control disruptive behavior. Results of the analysis of variance are presented and it is concluded that some control strategies which initially appear effective may have other deleterious…

The danger of misusing a psychiatric withdrawal policy to remove students who are perceived as "troublesome" or eccentric is discussed. When violations of student conduct regulations have occurred, the frequent resort to psychiatric withdrawals will deny students and the campus the important benefits and protections associated with…

An educational researcher suggests that "Philosophy and Education: Eightieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education" should have dealt with: (1) the nature of educational inquiry and its relationship to the social sciences and (2) how philosophical treatment of knowledge, thinking, and learning relate to…