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Camara, Wayne J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2003
This research describes data on college persistence, educational attainment, and remediation, and explains the difficulty in interpreting this data.
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Educational Research, School Statistics, Educational Attainment
Greer, Richard M.; Poe, Retta E. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2005
The concept of dual-career couples in student affairs and higher education, while not new, continues to be a growing phenomenon. These dual-career relationships present both professional and personal challenges and require regular adjustments. The authors discuss these challenges and adjustments from both a theoretical and an experiential…
Descriptors: Reflection, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Career Development
Staudt, Marlys M. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2003
High rates of dropping out from mental health services are documented for children and their families. These high rates exist at different treatment stages, in different service settings, and for different populations of children and families. Some researchers have developed and tested engagement interventions to address barriers to service access…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Attendance Patterns, Mental Health
Smylie, Mark A.; Miretzky, Debra; Konkol, Pamela – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2004
In this chapter, the authors focus on teacher development as a collective and organizational issue. They begin with a brief review of conventional approaches to teacher workforce development and management, including current critiques of these efforts, their possible consequences, and an overview of the recent calls for more comprehensive,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Human Resources, Teaching Methods, Labor Force Development
Akkari, Abdeljalil – International Education Journal, 2004
This paper investigates the educational development in the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on data from different international and national institutions. The paper begins with a review of similarities between countries within the region, and continues by investigating the situation of basic education, literacy rates and quality of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Development, Private Education, Foreign Countries
Wiart, Lesley; Darrah, Johanna; Hollis, Vivien; Cook, Al; May, Laura – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2004
Physical therapists and occupational therapists frequently assist parents with the exploration and use of powered wheelchairs for their children with physical disabilities. The purpose of this study was to explore parents' experiences and perceptions of their children's experiences with the receipt and use of powered mobility. Qualitative methods…
Descriptors: Mothers, Physical Disabilities, Social Influences, Physical Therapy
Edwards, Suzy – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
Computers have become an increasingly accepted learning tool in the early childhood classroom. Despite initial concerns regarding the effect of computers on children's development, past research has indicated that computer use by young children can support their learning and developmental outcomes (Siraj-Blatchford & Whitebread, 2003; Yelland,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Child Development, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers
Hser, May P. – International Education, 2005
In recognizing the need for internationalization, many universities and colleges in the United States are making great efforts to internationalize their institutions in order to prepare their students to live and work in the global society of the twenty-first century. This study examines different institutional responses to the need for…
Descriptors: Universities, Global Approach, International Education, Barriers
Duris, Adrienne L. – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 2005
Students with physical impairments often have difficulties with reading and writing skills. As a result, they are behind when compared to their non-disabled peers. This requires teachers of students with orthopedic impairments to know the obstacles that effect reading and writing instruction for their students. They also need to be able to use…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Barriers, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Menear, Kristi Sayers; Shapiro, Deborah R. – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 2004
Roughly 39% of children and youth with disabilities are physically active (Longmuir & Bar-Or, 2000). Increasing the number of individuals with disabilities who are physically active is a public health priority (Kosma, Cardinal & Rintala, 2002). This paper will highlight the current status of physical activity for persons with a disability by…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Disabilities, Physical Activity Level, Public Health
Tillman, Linda C. – Journal of School Public Relations, 2004
The "Brown v. Board of Education" decision defined public education for African Americans in the United States. In this article I discuss the tradition of African American parental involvement in the pre-"Brown" era, challenges to parental involvement in a post-"Brown" era, and a parental involvement initiative in an…
Descriptors: African American Students, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Parent School Relationship
Stephens, S. A.; Wolf, Wendy C.; Batten, Susan T. – Prevention Researcher, 2003
Adolescent parents and their children are both at critical points in their lives, when their life courses can be shaped toward healthy development, stability, and productivity, or toward life-long poverty and dependency. Efforts to improve outcomes for these young families must take advantage of every opportunity to connect them with the services…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Social Services, Adolescents, School Health Services
McLean, Michelle – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2004
Peer mentoring has been used for many years by the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine to integrate new students into the academic and social culture of the institution. In 2001, an unusual situation arose. A problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum was introduced and the first cohort in this programme was mentored by senior traditional curriculum…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Mentors, Medical Schools, Problem Based Learning
The Story of South African Academic Development in International Perspective: Have We Lost the Plot?
Volbrecht, T. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2003
South African Academic Development (AD) emerged as a liberatory educational and social movement in the 1980s. AD (often called educational development) has burgeoned as an international phenomenon, but with a focus on quality rather than on liberation. South African AD now seems to be struggling to construct its post-apartheid identity, if one…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Social Change, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Sorensen, Pamela B. – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2005
This article describes a type of intervention with parents that attempts to stimulate and encourage empathic imagination in relation to their child's difficult behaviour. Some barriers to this process are explored in the context of wider cultural influences, particularly as they pertain to the USA. Basic cultural assumptions about children, their…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Cultural Influences, Intervention, Parents