Presents activities appropriate for levels K-2, 2-4, 4-6, 7-8, and for student-parent interaction that connect the Van Hiele levels of thinking in geometry with stages of thinking outlined by art educators. Activities utilize the context of art to examine visualization, figure recognition, geometric transformations, and real-life applications of…

This study of diversity within a Catholic high school in a midwestern city examines the effect of the "caring community" on the achievement of African-American and other minority students. Through teacher, student, and parent interviews, analyzes caring and helping offered, uses of humor, and involvement in school activities. (JB)

Reviews the situation of education in Kosova, a part of old Yugoslavia with an Albanian population, where a low-intensity ethnic cleansing campaign against children is being conducted by Serbian authorities. In response to Serbian destruction of the public school system, semiclandestine Albanian language schools have been created. (SLD)

Provides insights into issues facing educators and counselors who are working with language minority students in public school settings. Explores cultural themes common to many Hispanic American groups, looks at approaches to urban and other current Native American settings, and describes the Minority Identity Development Model for Asian…

Provides statistical data and state rankings related to day-care center enrollment and financial support. Includes data on population, state expenditures, child care, corporal punishment, poverty, working parents, family income, single parent families, teen births, church-operated centers, and educational attainment. (PAM)

Considers barriers to education faced by homeless children. Compares the development of the rights to education of homeless children and youth to the development of rights of the handicapped. Access to education is only the first step. Services must be provided to enable success to come from access. (SLD)

Suggests incorporating reading, writing, and social studies within the context of literature. Includes reading lists and activities for teaching about the Victorian period in a two-month social studies unit that incorporates science fiction, mysteries, and fairy tales. Children discuss old photographs, examine artifacts, visit a Victorian mansion,…

Constructs a model applying evolutionary biology theory to the development of children's sense of justice. Maintains that competition for scarce resources causes many of the moral problems involving justice. Examines the place of emotions in the sense of justice. Hypothesizes rules of justice that predate cultural history. (CH)

Describes an experimental set of workshops in which primary age children used computers to create visual images. Concludes that using computers to create student artwork offers significant opportunities for primary and elementary art education. (CFR)

Advances a framework for teacher-assisted computer implementation based on Vygotsky's theory of socially mediated cognitive development. The approach suggested by this framework acknowledges critical roles of adults or more skilled partners in task performance and knowledge construction. Describes an application of the approach used to provide…

Reviews the multicultural perspectives that have operated in early childhood education in Australia, involving sociocultural issues, maintenance and development of the mother tongue, and development of English as a Second Language. The challenges of equality of opportunity regardless of differences in cultural or linguistic backgrounds are…

Presents five brief articles related to middle-level learning. The articles are, "Using Children's Diaries to Teach the Oregon Trail"; "Living the Geography of Joseph and Temperance Brown"; "The ABCs of Small Grant Acquisition for Social Studies"; "Isomo Loruko: The Yoruba Naming Ceremony"; and "Child…

Describes how a second-grade inner-city class in California, 80% Spanish-speaking and suffering from a severe lack of books and textbooks, became a class of authors, making books themselves. Relates how their classroom library grew to over 400 books in six weeks, with children becoming avid, passionate readers and writers in the process. (SR)

Examined role of home social relationships as predictors of social functioning in first years of school. Found that the quality of different family relationships provided relatively independent and complementary information about early social functioning in school, with more limited evidence for compensatory or protective processes at work.…

Examined attitudes of 2,272 students in Great Britain and Northern Ireland regarding school councils and daily life. Found that about half the students reported that they had a school council. Concluded that those who thought councils were effective had positive views about their school's social and academic activities, whereas those who thought…