Reducing brain research from the neurosciences to prescriptive teaching strategies shortchanges the immense promise this research holds for education. Educators should remain cautious, since researchers often disagree about conclusions and theories; neurological research operates at a concrete, mechanistic, or reductionist level; most researchers…

Offers a postmodern view of teacher responses to student writing. Promotes a meaning of "voice" that is different from the standard usage, and emphasizes the notion of voice instead of role as a way to understand teacher response. (SR)

"Tomorrow's Teachers" (the Holmes Group report) and "Educating Teachers for the 21st Century" (the Carnegie report) contain 138 specific proposals for educational reform. This article compares opinions of a sample of 115 teachers and 98 NASSP administrators concerning 107 proposals. Both groups strongly oppose magnet schools…

Replicates an earlier study of student teacher and supervising teacher response about using literature in elementary classrooms. Finds considerable differences between student teacher and supervising teacher response and between primary and intermediate grade response. Suggests implications for pre- and inservice teacher education. (RS)

Describes the experience of a five-year-old mainstreamed boy who supposedly had a developmental lag in language. The boy illustrated his understanding of basic functions of written language by competently orchestrating a pretend rental agreement with one of the authors. Illustrates the need to look beyond the surface features of the writing of…

By revisiting a framework for successful cooperative learning, secondary teachers can ensure that their cooperative learning activities produce solid learning and satisfying results. Article answers common questions teachers have concerning logistics, their new facilitative and valuative roles, and strategies for choosing groups, ensuring all…

Responds to the book "Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing" (Richard Straub and Ronald Lunsford). Makes the author's hermeneutical prejudice visible by laying out a brief history of her own questions and inquiries about interpreting student writing. Elucidates the ubiquity and comprehensive scope of responsivity…

An experienced teacher deplores the loony test questions used to make pass/fail decisions for Atlanta-area students. Test resistance is growing. Concerned teachers and parents nationwide are mailing copies of high-stakes tests to the media, lobbying legislators, spearheading protest organizations, and challenging politicians to take tests. (MLH)

This study explores Carl Glickman's widely used Supervisory Belief Inventory (SBI). The inventory is presented in his text Supervision of Instruction: A Developmental Approach. The text suggests that the inventory is able to discern with some accuracy a teacher's or administrator's preference for one of three supervisory approaches--directive,…

This article explores the use of scoring rubrics in the context of deteriorating material conditions of writing instruction. The author hopes to offer a consideration of rubrics that enables a revision of rubric designs, in order to facilitate teacher response to student writing, and that offers suggestions for uses of rubrics that account for…

Background/Context: This project is framed by a critical pragmatism, which is evident in the questioning of how social conditions and events outside schools influence classroom practice and in exploring the question of who benefits, collectively and individually, socially and politically, as well as pedagogically. Purpose/Objective/Research…

Our goal is to deconstruct the text formed by practitioners' narratives about the use of the claim "It's research based" to understand both how this claim is used and received by practitioners and how it may impact on teachers' attitudes. We map a range of differences in these narratives about what is "real" (research versus…

A movement in late 20th-century rhetorical theory asked teachers to encourage writing on personal topics as well as formal, impersonal ones. Thus, to traditional writing goals (pleasing, persuading, and instructing) the exorcism of often deep emotions was added. This movement forced teachers to read and evaluate student writing in a more…

Using Expectancy Violations Theory as a framework, this study examined students' perceptions of how teachers manage compulsive communicators (CCs). College students (N = 265) were given one of three scenarios describing a teacher managing a compulsive communicator. After reading the scenario, students were asked to rate the expectedness of the…

Students' questions play an important role in meaningful learning and scientific inquiry. They are a potential resource for both teaching and learning science. Despite the capacity of students' questions for enhancing learning, much of this potential still remains untapped. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to examine and review the…