This 2006 or "28th Annual Report to Congress" follows the 2005 or "27th Annual Report to Congress" in sequence. Volume 1 focuses on the children and students being served under "IDEA" and provides profiles of individual states' special education environments. Volume 2 of the "2006 Annual Report to Congress"…

This report presents an analysis of crimes committed in the elementary and secondary schools of New York. It is noted that the New York City school system had 3,136 staff related incidents in 989 schools during 1976-77. Analysis of the data also indicated that 414 schools reported no staff related incidents and that an additional 148 schools…

This study investigated how one important variable, the child's performance, affected the teacher's perception of a child and the causal source of his performance. (Author)

This study is an examination of the environmental forces and curriculum involvement in open and closed classroom settings. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to examine the cultural and personality resources of fourteen-year-olds, and their school related skills as components of achievement in mother tongue literature. (Author/RK)

Article explored what teachers considered as good or ideal teaching behavior, ideal teacher soliciting behaviors, ideal teacher reacting behaviors, and the ideal teaching-learning environment. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to investigate an alternative approach to the aptitude-treatment-interaction method of adapting instruction to individual differences. (Author)

This research study attempted to identify some factors that might explain the differences in the level of achievement among schools with similar socio-economic status and racial composition. (Author/RK)

This report, the fourth in a series of annual reports on school crime, presents the latest available data on school crime and student safety. National indicators affirm that the levels of crime in school have continued to decline, that acts that promote fear and detract from learning are decreasing, and that students feel safer in school than they…

This report, the fifth in a series of annual reports on school crime, presents the latest available data on school crime and student safety. The data present a mixed picture of school safety. Rates of criminal victimization in school have declined or remained constant, and students seem to feel more secure at school than they did a few years ago.…

USING THE CLASSROOM AS THE UNIT OF ANALYSIS A 25 PERCENT RANDOM SAMPLE OF STUDENTS IN 72 CLASSES FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY TOOK THE CLASSROOM CLIMATE QUESTIONNAIRE IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRUCTURAL (ORGANIZATIONAL) AND AFFECTIVE (PERSONAL INTERACTION BETWEEN GROUP MEMBERS) DIMENSIONS OF GROUP CLIMATE. REGRESSION AND…

This document is the summary report of a study having as its main objectives: (1) an intensive study of organizational and group-structural factors influencing the research and teaching effectiveness of individual faculty members and their relations to the students; (2) research investigating the effect of academic area and technology on…

In investigating educational goals, academic performance, academic self-esteem, and educational attainment, researchers should realize the importance of the school environment as well as individual student characteristics. To evaluate the significance of school effects, a project was undertaken to ascertain why students in high status schools were…

The participation of Australia's indigenous peoples in vocational education and training (VET) and the outcomes of their participation were examined in a national study that involved four major data collection activities: investigation of statistics in the national VET collection and results of the Graduate Destination Survey; review of literature…