Due to the numerous interventions available for children with autism, parents are faced with challenging decisions regarding treatments from the time of diagnosis and throughout their child's life. This exploratory qualitative study investigated the reasons behind parents' decisions about interventions for their child with autism. In-depth…

Research on the adaptation of children of migrants in Russia shows that while they adapt successfully in many ways, there is a need for teachers to be better equipped to deal with the cultural conflicts these children often experience.

Background. Leadership development from a missional perspective is a model being utilized by academic institutions within graduate theological education. Many of the academic institutions utilizing the missional model are aligning their academic institutions with theological understanding of the church from a missional hermeneutic. Method. This…

This study was conducted during the academic year 2002-2003 in a municipality in Eastern Finland. It focuses on pre-school education assessing its quality factors from the parents', teachers' and children's points of view. Theoretically, the study focuses on analyses of the purposes of the national core curriculum and pedagogical issues that are…

The physical arrangement of groups and sub-groups can have a direct bearing on the effectiveness of a case study. (Editor)

This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…