Describes the experiences of two graduate education professors in initiating and expanding the use of portfolios as a primary assessment tool in Educational Administration and Curriculum and Instruction courses, comparing their experiences in individual class settings and their collaborative application of the concept to a class in authentic…

Paper examines how one teacher conceived of classroom authority during three phases of his educational experience (student teaching, graduate school, and university teaching), suggesting that teacher educators must incorporate serious discussions about the nature of authority in the same way that K-12 teachers ought to question how they enact…

Since 1958, the National Research Council has gathered information on doctoral recipients. This information, available annually in data tape form to supplying institutions, offers an opportunity to improve understanding of progress toward the doctorate and the way it relates to discipline, finances, gender, and age. (Author/MSE)

Collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and the Montgomery County (Maryland) school system resulted in selection and graduate-level training of 12 nontraditional individuals to teach students with serious behavioral and learning problems. The goal was to alleviate teacher (especially minority teacher) shortages in special education. This…

This study compared the use of dialog and response journal formats in a graduate class for literacy educators. Data from student journals, interviews, and questionnaires indicated that students comparably completed each type of entry and believed the two formats served similar functions (promoting collegial consultation, improving task engagement,…

Despite efforts to increase graduate student diversity, recruitment and retention are difficult. Strategies include financial aid, faculty sensitivity to minority needs, minority faculty as role models and mentors, support systems, firm administrative commitment, and recruiting students in groups rather than individually. Student adjustment to the…

The University of Texas at Austin has established a highly successful graduate training program for community college administrators, with a high rate of participation by minorities and women. Aggressive fund raising, outreach, recruitment, leadership education, and quality faculty characterize the program. A number of distinguished administrators…

Presents data concerning doctoral degrees in physical education awarded to ethnic minorities between the years 1983 and 1990. Certain antecedents descriptive of this underrepresented cohort are also identified and discussed. Data show an increasing minority group population in secondary and postsecondary education, but an underrepresentation in…

Study surveyed students in an alternative, multicultural teacher certification program to determine how well the Urban Teacher Selection Interview could predict the success of future urban teachers. Comparisons between their interview rankings and their rankings as classroom teachers indicated that degree of future teaching success can be…

A national survey investigated full-time graduate management students' indebtedness and sources of financing, comparing less competitive/more competitive schools, racial/ethnic groups, and genders. Results indicate that among students who rely on loans to finance graduate education, those who borrow the most can expect to owe $47,000 by…

Examines how educational theory translates into classroom practice. Students in a graduate course learned about educational theory by creating a hypermedia chapter for a Web-based book. Findings indicated: most students were highly satisfied with the course; some transferred learning; and students developed skills and knowledge with instructional…

Describes a new role within the University of Southern Maine's Extended Teacher Education Program: the school/university site coordinator, which spans boundaries between the university and participating school districts. Surveys of site coordinators found that they worked closely with interns and cooperating teachers, emphasizing improvement of…

Describes a University of Pretoria (South Africa) computer-mediated course in distance education, designed to determine how the World Wide Web could be used as a virtual classroom with an electronic-mail listserv as a parallel discussion forum. A virtual classroom was created with virtual posters, virtual desks, and virtual portfolios. Student…

Dollar amounts of federal support for fiscal 1997 (actual), 1998 (estimated), and 1999 (requested) for higher education and science are charted, by program. Data are given separately for Department of Education programs (student aid, graduate support, institutional assistance, disadvantaged, adult/vocational education, educational…

Discusses barriers to African-American student progress, persistence, and achievement in science and engineering graduate study, including lack of encouragement, bias in graduate school admission criteria, lower faculty expectations of black students, financial support and fellowship structures, lack of opportunity to become professionally…