Description of a tutoring program for struggling 1st grade readers focuses on use of Sound Partners, a program designed for non-teacher tutors. This program emphasizes basic phonological awareness and phonological reading skills. The article describes the program's theoretical ancestry, application, research outcomes, and obstacles/solutions…

Examines whether prevention research can benefit from resilience research in designing interventions. Suggests that although many areas in the investigative interests of prevention and resilience researchers overlap, Luther, Cicchetti, and Becker may have set the bar too high for defining resilience in the context of varying levels of adversity.…

Presents a story that illustrates attempts to conflate theory and practice, enact critical pedagogy, and dissolve traditional boundaries. Demonstrates the axiom that the personal is always political. Argues that personal relationships as teachers and students help both parties to confront and act within the politics of the academy. (SC)

Data from 34 pairs of occupational therapy students and clinical preceptors following the implementation of Integration Tutorials and Seminars showed that the fieldwork learning environment influenced integration of academic and clinical knowledge. Preceptors influenced learning by planning learning processes and acting as co-learners. (JOW)

This introductory essay reviews the literature on commuter students' needs and experiences and compares several theoretical models that can be used to create environments, cultures, and structures that enable commuter students to become deeply involved in learning. Reports data that indicate the importance of increasing students' involvement to…

Addresses the need for continued assessment of course content and instructional methods employed within physical education teacher education programs to deliver theoretical and applied information from the foundational subdiscipline of exercise physiology, describing an innovative course at one university (Exercise for School-Aged Children) which…

Introduces this special issue highlighting social work research using a risk, protection, and resilience perspective. This perspective can be used to conceptualize problems in social work practice; develop plans of action for individuals, families, or communities, design services at the program level; and build measurement models for assessing…

Jacques Maritain's philosophy of history and philosophy of education both deal with the singularity of experience and the universality of reason. The philosophy of history is subordinated to moral philosophy; the philosophy of education is subordinated to metaphysics. Although Maritain's philosophies reflect a Christian world view, they can make a…

Presents a three-dimensional model for clarifying and expanding the conceptual foundations of gifted education that emphasizes different world views, movement toward soft sciences, and different levels of analysis. Barriers that cause fragmentation and insularity in conceptual foundations are discussed, and recommendations for breaking through…

Responds to an article that offered 10 dichotomies in teacher education (SP 527 128). After discussing the dichotomies and examining the centrality of the theory-practice dichotomy, challenges teacher educators to understand and close the theory-practice gap, making harmonious the various structural, administrative, programmatic, and…

The prevalence, conceptualization, and form of cooperative learning used by elementary school teachers are examined. Ninety-three percent of teachers (n=85) from six elementary schools in two districts indicated that they used cooperative learning. However, few were using recognized forms of this practice when criteria from the research literature…

Many researchers say the best gifted programs are based on the theory of multiple intelligences and other research in the field of cognitive psychology. Programs can be part of a school's mission to develop every child's gifts and talents. Outlines models and frameworks for instruction. Sidebars list recommendations along with references and…

Introduces three articles that explore teachers' and children's talk in a program for struggling readers; describes how Vygotskian perspectives, along with structure and directness, form their teaching frame; examines three learning settings that have traditionally failed struggling readers; and pays attention to the social nature of learning,…

In a large-scale study of 94 (British) secondary schools' ability to promote academic achievement, researchers conducted case studies of six outlier schools and questioned headteachers and deputies about effectiveness processes. Results reveal considerable support for previously cited effective schooling characteristics. Pupil behavior and…

Identifies and reviews 21 controlled outcome studies of school social work practice. Suggests that school social workers can use these studies as the basis for designing effective interventions in mental health prevention and treatment efforts in schools. Incorporates a risk and resilience perspective to link the demonstrated effects of…