Pearson sought to explore whether the students in schools in Brazil using the NAME learning system (an integrated program that encompasses a school's whole educational environment) demonstrate higher achievement in Portuguese and math, compared to those not exposed to NAME, as measured by national achievement assessments. This Research Report…

Examines children's reaction to educational software that use "androgynous" humanoid figures where gender-stereotypical features are absent. Study findings support the hypothesis that children would have no notion of genderless persons and would assign gender to the figures, reverting to male as norm, although girls would be more likely…

This fifth annual survey of computers and their use in South Carolina schools covers the 1978-88 school years. A questionnaire inventoried computer equipment and software, and dealt with such issues as instructional and administrative uses of computers, and availability of funding. The forms were distributed to all South Carolina public school…