Adopted a structural perspective in examining life events in the context of an individual's life story. Ten men and 10 women at each of 3 age groups identified personally significant life events from their past and anticipated future. Women identified more life events and reported a younger age corresponding to their first event than men.…

Recently, a group of students at an Ohio high school convinced administrators to consider adopting an honor code. A committee examined how academic integrity could be incorporated into school culture. The evolving system's fundamental values hinge on honesty, fairness, respect, and stakeholder responsibility. (MLH)

Two experiments investigated infants' sensitivity to amount of continuous quantity and to changes in amount of continuous quantity. Found that 6-month-olds looked significantly longer at a novel quantity than at the familiar quantity. Nine-month-olds looked significantly longer at an impossible event than at a possible event. Findings question…

A questionnaire on memory strategies, memory knowledge, and memory behavior was given to 31 teachers and 31 parents of Australian students with mental retardation. Teachers and parents held low expectations for the children's memory skills and these expectations were lower for memory behavior and memory strategies than for memory knowledge.…

Highlights the importance of expecting and encouraging all students to go as far as their abilities and interests can take them, criticizing the notion that some students do not need to be prepared for higher education because they will never rise above an expected level due to their ethnicity or social status. (SM)

Analysis of a survey of 300 business majors found that though technology use in the classroom motivates students by increasing learning, enjoyment, and interest in material, such motivation does not necessarily lead to better student performance on tests or papers. Recommends instructors increase student involvement by making presentation…

Interviews with 18 elementary teachers in low-income urban schools and 11 in middle-class suburban schools revealed the following: (1) most described cultural differences as deficits and had low expectations of students; (2) most had a low sense of teaching efficacy; and (3) teachers of color did not have higher expectations or teaching efficacy…

Argues that students are more motivated and develop more effective skills if challenged with assignments that ask for the depth of thinking required of academic disciplines and careers. Encourages composition teachers to experiment with assignments that challenge assumptions about first-year students' capabilities. (SG)

Examines the relationship of social and cultural resources and teachers' perception of ability to the educational aspirations of African American eighth graders. Results indicate that discussions with parents about school or careers, participation in activities outside of school, parental involvement, and parents' expectations were positively…

The United States identifies a far larger percentage of students for special-education services than do other developed countries, including Israel, Canada, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, and Korea. Looming behind the U.S. figures are the possibility of lawsuits, mounting paperwork, student discipline problems, lower expectations for student…

Discusses the role of school administrators in supporting school library programs and suggests ways that teacher librarians can encourage them. Topics include leadership from the principal; shared vision; professional development programs; planning opportunities; adequate support staff; school reforms; community and district advocacy; and raising…

Typically, high performing schools are those with high test scores. Affluent students generally have higher scores than poorer students. True high performing schools require students to take rigorous courses, hire extremely competent teachers, and for teachers to know every student well. They use their limited funds efficiently to improve teaching…

Expands the literature on the educational role of immediacy by exploring the relationship between touch during student/professor interactions and students' evaluations of the professor and the interaction. Indicate that student sex, professor reward value, and location of touch have significant influence on students' evaluations of professors and…

The identity of the underachiever has become synonymous with the stereotypical identity of boys. Teachers know what underachievement looks like: it looks like a boy who is bright, but bored. Evidence from a research study reported here demonstrates that teachers are more likely to select boys as underachievers than girls and that teachers…

Understanding the prime-time television portrait of college helps educators better understand the expectations our entering students may hold of college life.