"Education Matters" is the monthly newsletter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), an organization dedicated to advancing the American teaching profession through personal growth, professional development, teacher advocacy and protection. This issue of the newsletter includes: (1) Who Me? Yes, You Can Use Technology to Individualize…

Individual and social benefits accrue when high school graduation rates increase. One approach to increasing graduation rates is to design learning environments that serve students with disabilities through the 5Cs known to increase school completion: connect, climate, control, curriculum, and caring community. Virtual school programs align with…

The past five decades have produced a tremendous archive of important and interesting strategies, frameworks and practices aimed at improvement in public education. Yet despite the vast set of knowledge generated by this work, gains have not been significant enough nor sustained. Young people still arrive at postsecondary institutions ill-prepared…

Forest Grove School District v. T.A. involved a student with learning disabilities, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and depression (T.A.) whose parents had moved him to a private academy for students with special needs without first consulting with his public school. In the past, the school district had found T.A. to be ineligible…

The work described in this paper explores the feasibility of using of a wireless handheld system (WHS) that supports the individual and co-operative reading activities of students and helps teachers implement reading strategy instruction in Chinese language classes. The experimental findings demonstrate that the WHS benefits students applying…

This article presents lesson plans that use downloadable spreadsheet tools that relate symbolic and graphical representations of functions. Instructions and a template allow readers to create personalized tools without programming. (Contains 14 figures.)

A look at a project which aimed to determine whether an individualized reading program would improve pupil attitudes toward reading without significantly altering, in a negative way, the student achievement results. (Author)

Using elementary school pupils as an example, the author distinguishes between equal and equivalent knowledge and shows how both relate to individualized learning situations applicable to continuing education. (AG)

A discussion of why new teaching methods that utilize the principles of individualized instruction are important. (HB)

The Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh has adopted instructional material in elementary mathematics and reading that are designed for instructing the individual pupil. The program is known as Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) and has been widely acclaimed as an important breakthrough in education. This…

In the first section of this paper, the theory behind the use of educational technology in New York State is discussed: that the major contribution of technology to education should be to help achieve individualized instruction and help students become self-motivating, self-directing independent learners. Current activities in the use of…

It is important to be cost effective and to maintain quality control in choosing instructional media. Formats discussed are 16mm film, videocassettes, 35mm slides, filmstrips, color microfiche, color paper copies, and 8mm film. (Author/STS)