One hundred and twenty-two elementary school classrooms reportedly engaged in open education in the State of New York were visited and a list of criteria produced. Discusses nine criteria that appeared to be essential to the operation of open education. (Author/RK)

Analysis of teachers' questions, part of the ORACLE (Observation Research and Classroom Learning Evaluation) project research, is examined in detail. Scarth and Hammersley argue that the rules ORACLE uses for identifying different types of questions involve levels of ambiguity and inference that threaten reliability and validity of the study's…

Around one-third of pupils in British schools take no part in extra-curricular activities. This article looks at the adequacy of extra-curricular provision from the pupil's viewpoint. (Author/MB)