This book examines ways to meet the educational needs of families. The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 draws together the opinions and aspirations of parents and the general public on issues ranging from curriculum to classroom violence. Using the goals presented in part 1, part 2 reveals which approaches to schooling have been…

This monograph is a guide to positive behavioral intervention and support (PBIS) and functional behavioral assessment (FBA) in the special education of students with behavior disorders as emphasized in the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA 97). An introduction explains that positive behavioral support represents the…

This document contains the 16 issues of the newsletter "The Link" published during 1995-98. The Link disseminates resources, recent educational research findings, and other information of interest to practitioners in the four states served by Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL): Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.…

Gender role stereotyping and gender bias limit educational choices and opportunities for students. The impact of gender role stereotyping and gender bias on teaching and counseling methodologies, educational and career choices, violence in schools, communication, and other aspects of education has not been taken routinely into consideration in…

This paper considers how Australian young people living in relative poverty, per se, are portrayed in media reports and how a specific group of socioeconomically disadvantaged young people are constituted in teachers' classroom talk. The paper begins with the examination of several newspaper reports, part of an archive of articles concerned with…

This paper reports on a Missouri study that compared block scheduling to traditional schedules in small high schools (schools with fewer than 500 students in grades 9 to 12). The study focused on small-school administrator and teacher perceptions of the effects of block scheduling on student achievement, school climate, and teacher methodology.…

Legislators and community leaders have the responsibility to develop policies and make informed decisions to ensure that new technologies will enhance, and not frustrate, learning. That is why Congress established the Web-based Education Commission that for the past year has been chairing an effort exploring ways in which the Internet is changing…

One of the recommendations of the "Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Scotland" report (ALNIS), published in 2001, was that progress against its recommendations should be reviewed at the end of the third year of the national initiative. This HMIE report contributes to that review of progress. The report confirms that the initiative is having…

Educators of youth have always been concerned with the organization of the content of instruction. When the prime purpose of secondary education was preparation for college, higher education institutions very largely determined the content, form, and standard of instruction of the preparatory schools. As the numbers of youth seeking a high-school…

In recent years, conflicting reports have circulated about the number of colleges and universities that have made standardized tests optional, rather than required, for admission. The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, or FairTest, has widely publicized a list of 391 colleges and universities that, it claims, do not require admissions…

The work reported in this bulletin was prepared with two aims held by the committee on music. The first was to prepare a platform sufficiently broad for all proper phases of musical activity, however diverse, found in the high schools of the United States. The second aim was to provide practical help for administrative problems, by presenting in…

Research methods are tools that can be variously applied - depending on the stage of knowledge in a particular area, the type of research question being asked, and the context of the research. The field of program evaluation, critical for social policy development, often has not adequately embraced the full range of methodological tools needed to…

First reviews four representative theoretical studies in the history of urban education, calling for detailed case studies of particular schools and school systems to supplement theoretical analyses; and then, as an example of such a case study, discusses the school system of Gary, Indiana, focusing on the Gary Plan. (JM)

Considered an annual survey of reading attainment of all 7-year-olds in Angus, Scotland using the Vernon Graded Word Reading Test, a further reading survey of 10- to 11-year-olds, and a follow up annually of children, who have made a poor start in reading. (Editor/RK)

The following analysis traced some of the history of general education in the two-year college, with an eye toward explaining why general education has reached its present low status in the hierarchy of community college concerns. (Author/RK)