Describes the development of a domain-referenced system intended to both describe and classify current writing assignments and to create composition assignments. (HOD)

Reports on the Council of Europe's joint European-American seminar that deals with teaching about the United States in secondary schools in Western Europe. (MD)

Data from the 1976 Survey of Income and Education indicate that: (1) the variable of years since immigration does not affect employment rate or annual hours worked of male Hispanic immigrants; (2) the labor supply of immigrants exceeds that of nonimmigrants; and (3) the immigration experience probably leads to the high Hispanic labor supply. (CJM)

Teachers need to be prepared to teach children who are culturally different and socially or economically disadvantaged. Personal assessment of attitudes toward student differences and data collection to provide information on individual students will help the teacher prepare an accepting classroom environment. Suggested activities for teacher use…

Argues that the United States already possesses the knowledge necessary for educational change and improvement but that leadership, will, and commitment are lacking. (CMG)

Discusses the issue of access to higher education in Canada and suggests that those who do not gain entry share common social and cultural properties. Recommends three strategies for enhancing accessibility: a monitoring system, compensatory education programs, and financial assistance programs. (JAC)

How should society balance the needs of the common culture against the needs of particular groups? Is it possible to have an American community that is both integrated and pluralistic? Article considers these questions as they relate to the position of black citizens and students. (Author/RK)

Notes that black children who find themselves too often among unwelcoming and uncaring adults and hostile institutions need all the developmental freedom they can muster to build muscle necessary for encountering the very white society in which we live. (Author/AM)

Democracy is described as a desirable regulative framework for ordering the interrelations of different cultures. (GW)

The uniqueness of this book lies in the multiple perspectives drawn from youth, their parents, and their teachers. These perspectives provide a range of lenses through which a student or beginning teacher may view child and adolescent development. The complex processes of development occur within a social context, and therefore a professional…

In the fall of 2003, PACER Center's Parent Partnership Project for Children's Mental Health conducted a survey to better understand what parents and families need from the children's mental health system in Minnesota. The research team developed a survey questionnaire, a telephone interview, and a focus group session directed at learning what was…

This paper reports on a qualitative research study exploring the socialisation experiences of immigrant secondary mathematics teachers practising in Australia. Teacher perception of differences in the ways their respective home and the Australian (host) cultures value aspects of mathematics teaching and learning was observed to lead to dissonance.…

This paper examines the Chinese self-deprecation phenomenon from a sociopragmatic perspective, analyzing the ritual and pragmatic implications that arise from face-work sought to fulfill the face needs of interlocutors in communicative events. It defines self-deprecation as the act of ritual or purposeful disparaging of one's own prestige,…

This study of three female preservice teachers who took part in a practicum teaching experience in Mexico focused on what the students learned, how they met the challenges of the experience, and how the experience affected their personal and professional lives later. This qualitative study used interviews with each student and observation field…

This digest discusses issues and challenges in providing English language instruction to Latino and other linguistically diverse (LCD) incarcerated youth, aged 16-24, suggesting best practices and models to provide this intervention in correctional settings. It focuses on th following: the rationale for instruction (the instruction that LCD youth…