Written in response to an article critical of Reading Recovery (published in the December/January 1996/1997 issue of "The Reading Teacher"), this paper describes what the 5 authors have learned and are learning about Reading Recovery. An introductory section discusses Reading Recovery, noting that it is an individual tutoring program for…

When school systems began to desegregate after Brown v. Board of Education, 80 Per cent of the school population was white and 20 per cent was minority. By 1996, the number of minority students had risen to approximately 35 per cent of the student population, and today it stands at nearly 40 per cent and growing. These students continue to achieve…

It is of interest from time to time to make studies or have studies made of the various ranks of the superintendency. One type of the superintendency, which is all in all the oldest and is found in every State, is the county superintendent of schools. He exists in more than 3,300 places. The return accompanying this blank was able to get a line on…

This publication is one of a series reporting on the nationwide study, "Qualification and Preparation of Teachers of Exceptional Children," which has been one of the major continuing projects of the Office of Education. This publication reports that part of the information from the broad study which has bearing on the qualification and preparation…

Article focuses on the problems teachers face in teaching English to their students and suggestions are made to make English teaching more effective. (RK)

Article described the why and hows of an innovative Special Education diploma program, which prepares teachers to work with children who are blind, deaf and mentally retarded or some combination of those handicaps. (Editor/RK)

The studies described here were executed to explore and verify the conjecture that teachers' expectations are likely to be systematically associated with implicit stereotyped perceptions of names, and these stereotypical expectations may in turn be reflected in teachers' subjective evaluation of student products and performance. (Author/RK)

The authors distributed questionnaires about the role of school psychologists to teachers, psychologists, and principals. They found that experienced teachers have higher expectations for more novel interventions such as in-school and in-class services, and that psychologists make different kinds of treatment recommendations depending upon…

The writer presents a distillation of observations from her 100-page notebook that reflects what's happening in China's schools. (Editor/RK)

Article explored what teachers considered as good or ideal teaching behavior, ideal teacher soliciting behaviors, ideal teacher reacting behaviors, and the ideal teaching-learning environment. (Author/RK)

A description of an experimental program designed to increase the internalized understanding and sensitivity of future teachers toward inner-city families. (DM)

Tells of a young man's experience in teaching. Despite social change and liberalized views, the public will not accept a rehabilitated drug addict as a teacher. (DS)

Discusses experience of teaching chemistry to underprepared students whose characteristics are analyzed in great detail. Concludes that the same principles are applicable to mathematics or other science fields. (CC)

Tutored Ss displayed significantly greater achievement gains than Ss instructed in a classroom setting when time, the curricula, and teacher differences were held constant. (Authors)