In view of the importance of literacy learning, this paper defines emergent literacy and explores how researchers and teachers define it in the 1990s. The paper also attempts to answer the following questions: (1) What is the best way to teach literacy to young children? (2) Is there a correct way to teach it? (3) What does the research say…

The enrollment of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) students is increasing rapidly, so it is important for school personnel and community members to learn to communicate with API families. This guide describes how the backgrounds and cultures of the various API groups affect their attitudes and behavior. The three general ethnicities within the API…

This teacher training module presents the Student Membership Snapshot (SMS) system, a problem solving approach for teachers responding to increasing student diversity. The first chapter describes student diversity in learning styles, curricular outcomes, and social connections. The next chapter details the three steps of the SMS process:…

This volume contains 36 articles on education taken from a wide array of magazines, newspapers, and journals in the public press appearing between 1992 and 1994. Unit 1 contains six articles that discuss the importance of a multi-cultural curriculum in sensitizing students to an integrated world society. Unit 2 contains four selections that…

Implications of the six National Education Goals for African Americans and other minority groups are discussed in a paper that summarizes the status of student competencies. The question posed is why the school reform movement thus far has had such a minimal impact on overall student achievement. The focus of the reform movement of the 1980s is…

This revised version of the 1988 essay "Working with Vietnamese High School Students" includes updated demographics, profiles of the Amerasian newcomers and the children of Vietnamese re-education internees, who have been among the latest arrivals from Southeast Asia, a review of the literature on Vietnamese students, and a discussion of key…

From 1990 to 1993, 200 educators, primarily classroom teachers of computers, mathematics, and science, participated in the Computer Equity Expert Project. After a seminar on gender equity in these fields, the educators returned to their schools and taught workshops to their colleagues. Together, workshop participants and their colleagues developed…

A framework is presented for library instruction that integrates learning in the cognitive and affective domains. A study is reported that supports such a framework. Central to this instruction is the use of an overall strategy called FOCUS, FORMAT, FIND, and EVALUATE. The study compared the effects of two methods of academic library instruction…

This study was designed to pursue the question of the relationship between enablement, alienation, and attitude toward science in the seventh and eighth grades. Subjects are 2,159 students taught by 19 teachers in 4 middle schools. There are strong relationships between student perceptions of classroom structure and their attitude toward science.…

Explanations of natural phenomena within a traditional Native American context are often at odds with Western scientific philosophy and what is taught in school science. Herein lies a very real conflict between two distinctly different worldviews: the mutualistic/holistic-oriented worldview of Native American cultures and the…

This book explores the aims and strategies of the Educational Fostering movement (EFO), a collection of educational policies in Israel that are intended to narrow gaps in educational opportunities and achievement between ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority. Educational fostering is aimed at students who are marginalized contextually or…

This paper emphasizes the significance of cultural diversity in American schools and its implications for the teaching and learning processes. Also highlighted is the importance of the realization that diversity is what makes the United States unique. The paper discusses the cultural dynamics of clashes and conflicts as well as of cooperation and…

This paper summarizes the overall theme of a collection of six papers (each with separate commentary) inspired by research in cognitive psychology. The dominant approaches to instructing educationally disadvantaged children have focused on the teaching of basic skills, with little regard for the more advanced skills of reasoning, problem solving,…

This unit, one of six which comprise the Fair Play program, allows middle school students to compare and analyze male and female language. The Fair Play program is a series of student and teacher materials the purpose of which is to help students expand their female or male self-concepts, increase their decision-making skills, and improve their…

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of computer-based learning and traditional method on students' attitudes and achievement towards analytical chemistry. Students from Chemistry Education Department at Dokuz Eylul University (D.E.U) were selected randomly and divided into three groups; two experimental (Eg-1 and Eg-2) and a control…