Today's teachers are increasingly becoming targets of violence, incivility, and tortious acts by minor students. Some teachers have successfully sued threatening students in civil court for punitive damages. About 13 states have made assaulting a teacher a felony. Some tort theories hold parents liable for their children's misbehavior. (Contains…

Argues that because democracy, education, and discussion are interrelated and seek to promote human growth, ways must be found to involve children and adults in frequent discussions. Focuses on democratic education, including the barriers, functions of discussion, and dispositional ideals for classroom members. Concludes that discussion is an…

Thirteen suggestions for preventing the growing problem of peer cruelty at school include: adopt a schoolwide character education effort; create a classroom community; allow children to help set rules; teach empathy; practice cooperative learning; allow children of different ages to work together; teach social skills to end victimization; empower…

Explores intergroup bias with nonethnic peer social groups by asking 30 children between the ages of 4 and 12 to make attributions about both positive and negative behaviors performed by both someone they liked and and someone they disliked. Discusses the results. (CMK)

Examines relationships among peer, teacher, and self-assessments on adolescent direct and indirect aggressive behavior taking place at school. Focuses on early, middle, and late adolescent girls and boys (n=2002). States that direct aggression includes measures on bullying, fighting, and arguing while indirect aggression focuses on measures of…

This article explores a tenable explanation for the research finding that self-modeling is an effective intervention for students with behavior disorders. It was hypothesized that when participants view a change in their behavior, their memories and self-beliefs subsequently change to be in concert with that shown on the edited videotape. (Author)

Investigated college faculty members' views about student evaluations of teaching. Most women faculty believed that student evaluations were biased against female teachers, though they were confident in their identities as conscientious teachers. Respondents offered first- and second-hand accounts of student sexism and prejudice. Women's…

A study investigated the relationship between placement in inclusive (n=36) and pullout (n=22) special education programs and academic and behavior outcomes for students with disabilities. Eighth-graders in inclusive classrooms earned higher grades, achieved higher or comparable standardized test scores, committed no more behavioral infractions,…

Discusses William A. Long's trait theory of personality based on reactive behavior patterns. Argues that reactive behavior patterns in students are defined by two dimensions: aggressive/passive and dependent/independent. Suggests that Long's trait theory has important implications for developing effective classroom teaching strategies. Contains 18…

Investigated relationships between deception and self-perception of traditionally masculine and feminine characteristics. Elementary students completed sex role inventories, then boys completed questionnaires on masculine, feminine, and neutral topics. Questionnaires allowed opportunity for deception regarding knowledge level. Feminine boys…

Investigated how European, national, and local goals of the European Network of Health Promoting Schools (ENHPS) have been realized in Finnish schools. Teacher surveys highlighted the substantial development related to health promotion in Finnish ENHPS schools. Safe school environments were emphasized. Networking with other schools was encouraged…

The predictive validity of active responding on a computer-based groupware system was examined with 48 second graders. Results showed that active responding correlated highly with initial and final performance measures and that active responding contributed significantly to predicting final performance when initial performance was controlled.…

Describes a project that used the model of character impersonation to allow students to communicate via e-mail with Clovis Crawfish, a children's literature character. Highlights include teaching interns who provided classroom support; a collaborative model of instruction; effects on learning and student behavior; a constructivist approach;…

Examines whether selected nonmusical attributes of 20 sixth-grade pianists would affect ratings of their performances by 123 musically trained evaluators. States that the visual group evaluators viewed a videotape, without the sound, rating the pianists on appropriateness of dress, stage behavior, and physical attractiveness. The audio and…

Investigates whether experience with a balance beam task at which children succeed could be transferred to a related problem (balancing familiar everyday objects) and the extent to which transfer of knowledge was assisted by adult scaffolding and a condition where children worked alone. Finds that the scaffolding condition was most effective. (CMK)