It is difficult to make a clear impact statement about charter schools. Much of the available research is equivocal, and many important questions related to the impact of charter schools remain unanswered. Researchers have primarily examined four general topics with respect to the impact of charter schools; (1) Do charter schools raise student…

Gifted students have unique educational needs. Although gifted students are as varied as other students in terms of their learning styles and preferences, all gifted learners have exhibited unusual performance or potential and they have distinctive characteristics, shared by most of these students, which require effective responses from educators.…

The twenty-five items selected for this bibliography include significant contributions to the literature on college librarianship and tutor librarianship for the period 1958-1971. Most of them are taken from the last ten years and form a useful state-of-the-art survey. The authors and titles of all twenty-five items are listed in the table of…

This document lists the publications produced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in the 2001 calendar year. It was prepared primarily for heads of HEFCE-funded higher education institutions and further education colleges and heads of universities in Northern Ireland with those responsible for administration and libraries…

Cold February weather and pancakes are a traditional pairing. Pancake Day began as a way to eat up the foods that were abstained from in Lent--traditionally meat, fat, eggs and dairy products. The best-known pancake event is The Pancake Day Race in Buckinghamshire, England, which has been run since 1445. This column describes pairs of books that…

To facilitate systematic and logical manpower planning and forecasting at the company level, precisely stated objectives should be developed which include elements of the following concepts: (1) What are the types and levels of skill for which forecasts should be prepared? (2) Are forecasts to be prepared for the whole organization or only part?…

This bibliographic essay cites audiovisual aids for teaching English history from the mid-eighteenth century to the present at the secondary and college levels. Films, filmstrips, slides, maps, transparencies, records, tapes, and archival teaching units are cited. The arrangement is topical. (Author/RM)

School building design in this publication is interpreted as meaning layout and arrangement of rooms rather than as architectural style. Citations are organized under (1) central authority publications, (2) local authority publications, (3) general works, (4) articles in periodicals, and (5) unpublished theses. (Author/MLF)

Traces the history of Henry Miller's novel "Tropic of Cancer"--censored in England and America for being too obscene--from its inception in 1932 to its vindication by the United States judicial system 30 years later. Also includes an annotated bibliography of related literature. (AEF)

This bibliography lists 78 documents in English and 7 in Swedish on the subject of open plan secondary schools. These documents are not annotated individually, but are discussed in a text that is divided into ten major subject areas: Theory, Buildings, Staffing, Scotland, England, International, U.S.A., Canada, Sweden, and Australia. Each of these…

Short comments introduce each section of this bibliography designed to "introduce the teacher who wishes to do research in some aspects of change in science education to the relevant literature." The emphasis is on science education in England and Wales, but a large number of the entries are of United States origin and concern U. S.…

Within the public, academic, and school libraries the use of specific types of materials was examined, for example, audio-visual, reference and bibliographic materials and different types of catalogs. The physical layout and arrangement of the libraries, and their influence on use and non-use was also considered. The factors inhibiting the use of…

This bibliography on informal education grew out of a concern to understand the kinds of programs possible in open plan schools. The annotations are reading notes generally more descriptive than evaluative. Citations are grouped under nine headings: (1) general, (2) description of British informal education by British writers, (3) description of…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) ensemble as a process of actor training; (2) perspectives on the verbal performance of jest, abuse, and contest; (3) a course design for teaching black drama;…

Provides a list, from the ERIC database, of teaching materials and background information on the Industrial Revolution. Specific topics include life in Lowell (Massachusetts), the global impact of the Industrial Revolution, and England's Industrial Revolution. Offers directions for obtaining the full text of these materials. (CMK)