Concerns that higher standards and demanding high-stakes tests will disadvantage students who have attended weak, unsuccessful, or under-resourced schools have typically been met with the counter-claim that poorly prepared students will be provided with the extra help and support they need to succeed. Efforts to provide extra help are in their…

Educators have kept up a continual bombardment against one-room schools. It has been pointed out that one teacher working alone with all grades and with pupils of all ages can not be expected to accomplish results equal to the results made possible by the specialization of the well-graded school. The present-day practice of attempting to evaluate…

Describes how a computer keeps track of what materials are most helpful in teaching particular skills, reports on student progress levels, and provides a planning programing budgeting system report each month. (DN)

Examines three studies related to the reading achievement of hearing-impaired students. (VJ)

Observer's ratings of teachers of interracial sixth grade classrooms are related to their pupils' academic growth, self-concept, and interracial friendship behavior. (Author/AG)