Twenty-three special education teachers were asked to differentiate between practices for spelling instruction which do and do not have adqequate empirical support and to report on the extent to which they employed various instructional practices in teaching spelling. Outcomes suggest that special educators may have several misconceptions…

Describes a technique that can be used to construct variables from clinical interviews that can be used in quantitative analyses. The technique involves the representation of each proposition a student uses in terms of a standard set of underlying predicates, concepts, and relationships among concepts. (JN)

Fifteen randomly selected public school elementary teachers participated in training sessions on voice disorders. Analysis of scores on ratings of voice disorder samples revealed that Ss made significantly fewer errors than a control group. The trained group agreed with speech pathologist judges 74 percent of the time. (CL)

Both inservice and university courses produced significant changes in responses of 154 regular classroom teachers on a questionnaire. Significant changes were found on the total test and in the variables of skills, time, attitudes, materials, and services. (Author/CL)

Twenty-six severely learning disabled students aged 10 through 20 enrolled in a special residential school were interviewed. Most were found to have very little insight into the nature of LD and tended to attribute their learning problems to their own lack of effort. (Author/CL)

Reviewing research on children's understanding of nuclear war, Tizard suggests that educators and researchers have yet to understand the factors influencing children's attitudes, anxieties, and knowledge of nuclear issues. (Author/SK)

The "English Standards of Learning Enhanced Scope and Sequence" for grades K-5 is a resource intended to help teachers align their classroom instruction with the content found in "English Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools," adopted by the Board of Education in November 2002. In addition, the Enhanced Scope and…

Zero tolerance discipline relies upon a certain set of assumptions about schools, violence, and the outcomes of discipline. In the period of heightened fear about school-based violence during the 1990s, it was not always easy to dispassionately examine the evidence for different strategies of violence prevention. It seemed imperative to put an…

This book shares the author's experiences implementing the Core Knowledge Sequence in a small town, offering an understanding of why Core Knowledge has been such a positive experience for learners. As the book describes reasons for using the Core Knowledge Sequence, it substantiates them with authentic experiences from administrators, teachers,…

A humanistic education is superior to a practical education because the former aims at unifying all branches of knowledge. (CK)

Two studies found that, when people are either given the actual text or given an explanation of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), they display more positive attitudes and fewer misconceptions than people who are asked what they think about it without being informed of the amendment's text. (GC)

The authors examine barriers to disseminating research knowledge to parents of handicapped children, stress the importance of researchers communicating to parents, and suggest ways to improve dissemination efforts.

Describes a study which estimated the amount of economic knowledge a student should learn from a college class. (AM)

Reviews past and present views of the working relationship between a school's nurse and athletic trainer and discusses the author's own study which revealed that, compared to trainers, school nurses possess insufficient knowledge to assume adequate injury management. Offers a sample job description for a head athletic trainer. (WD)