In Salinas, California, a Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS)-funded program is helping children and their families grapple with issues pertaining to violence, substance abuse, mental health, and academic success. In just two years, the program has helped educators and service providers deter school crime, provide on-campus therapy to troubled…

Assessed the impact of a redesigned campus preservice teacher education program on student teacher development. Student teacher interviews indicated that while student teachers made several recommendations for improving the program, it had a major impact on their development as teachers, helping them acquire broad teaching goals, broad pedagogical…

States that recent research suggests that an education in theater beginning in kindergarten and continuing throughout the educational process can teach students valuable skills that will serve them well in the professional world, including problem solving, team work, and decision making. Discusses the program at Jefferson High School and its…

Argues for desirability of high ethical standards on college and university campuses. Concentrates on academic integrity policies and procedures. Claims that students learn from institutions' responses to academic dishonesty and from schools' expectations about students' response to the dishonesty of others, thus teaching courage, compassion,…

Presents a model of conflict resolution as an alternative, or in addition, to traditional disciplinary systems. Method relies on mediation and employs a "win/win" philosophy which allows and encourages students to peacefully resolve their own disputes. Believes that the program bolsters self-esteem and helps students resolve differences.…

Explores ways that higher education can reintegrate cognitive learning and personal development. Discusses a developmental conceptualization of learning and outlines strategies that help students connect learning in college to their lives. Provides both curricular and cocurricular examples and stresses the importance of a shared vision of…

Describes how one scholastic journalism program operates and how for its advisor teaching comes first, followed by advocacy, and a free exchange of ideas through the student newspaper. States that he sees his advisor role as that of a facilitator. (PA)

Surveyed preservice elementary teachers regarding their perceptions of the impact of portfolios on professional development and the transition from school to work. Results indicated that the process promoted reflective practice, increased self-confidence, prepared respondents for the job search, and heightened awareness of professional standards.…

Examines school-level differences in the relations between school belonging and various outcomes. Results indicated that belonging was lower in urban schools than in suburban schools. Whereas individual students' perceptions of belonging were inversely related to depression, social rejection, and school problems, aggregated belonging was related…

Self-definition plays a crucial role in complex learning. This article offers a framework for making identity central in learning to promote learning and self-authorship. Four examples of this framework in multicultural education, community development, academic advising, and teaching offer student affairs educators a foundation for leading…

Encourages development of a communication assessment program designed primarily for a nontraditional, older and more diverse student population. Concludes that the prior learning assessment philosophy is a sophisticated and suitable methodology for assessing communication competency. (KEH)

A student of the 1950s reflects on how moral issues were ignored in both the college curriculum and campus activities, and reviews research on moral development. Milestones in research on moral development since then are reviewed and applied to circumstances of individual colleges to encourage the creation of opportunities for student moral…

What higher education has to offer society is the opportunity to promote the individual development of students through open-ended inquiry. The traditional curriculum has limitations, and higher education should make a greater effort to lower disciplinary barriers and offer access to higher-order cognitive, social, professional, and physical…

Three articles--"Youth at Risk: Extension's Hard Decisions" (Sauer), "Youth Are at Risk and So Are We..." (Hoopfer), and "Youth at Risk--Time for Action" (Junge)--address the role of cooperative extension and 4-H in youth development and why leadership arising from extension's strengths is imperative. (SK)

The Center for Teacher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was designed to reform teacher education programs. The collaborative operation of a beginning course to introduce students to the field of education and to the approach to professional training applied at the center is presented. (SM)