Offers suggestions to make homework more beneficial to students and teachers. Discusses motivating students, planning assignments, grading, communicating teacher expectations, and maintaining consistency with respect to homework. (MDH)

Study investigated the detection of teacher expectancy effects across language and cultural boundaries. Students and teachers rated taped samples of foreign teachers talking about or to high-expectancy and low-expectancy students, focusing on facial expressions and body language. Teachers had distinctive nonverbal styles, even when language and…

Presents results of an analysis of a collection of statements about God written by German students between 16 and 22 years of age. Examines results from a psychoanalytic and cognitive-developmental perspective. Also considers the ways in which adolescents talk about the relationship between God and the church. (BB)

Reports 1985 data on college seniors' income expectations for themselves, college peers, and high school peers who did not attend college. Finds that male and female respondents had informed expectations about other graduates' earnings, but differed sharply in expectations about their own incomes, with men being more likely than women to…

Describes three broad areas of challenge for the development of national curriculum content standards: (1) tension between leadership and consensus; (2) tension between flexible and specific standards; and (3) tension between up-to-date dynamic standards and reasonable expectations for systemic change. Examining tradeoffs necessary will result in…

This paper explores the relationship of personal and family factors to three types of achievement in a sample of 172 African-American and 105 Euro-American women. Results are presented based on questionnaires that assessed gender role attitudes, daydream achievement (Ach), daydream affiliation (Aff), n Ach and n Aff, and demographic profiles. (GLR)

Reports on a survey administered to faculty at the University of Minnesota regarding the reading and writing assignments and pedagogy employed in courses. States that results were used to make changes in the content of the developmental curriculum and strategies used to teach courses. Contains 11 references. (VWC)

A Rochester, New York, elementary school attributes its high parent involvement to a turnaround strategy involving newsletters, phone calls, parent-teacher conferences, surveys, parent-education classes, parent-involvement activities, special announcements, participation rewards, informal contacts, a parent resource center, home visits, volunteer…

Evaluates teaching sequences in high-school choral rehearsals to provide insight into the relationship between ensemble achievement and performance preparation. Indicates that teacher pace improvement is unrelated to ensemble maturity, teacher verbalization may not relate to success, and teacher assistance and instructions decrease with student…

Middle school physical educators must develop good routines at the beginning of the year to develop safe, enjoyable teaching and learning environments. Management and behavioral protocols and procedures are at the heart of this environment. The paper presents questions to consider when planning the start of the school year, noting key…

Presents six myths about black children that may contribute to their overrepresentation in special education. The myths include the following: (1) poor black students' parents don't care about education; (2) poor black students fail because they are unmotivated and uncooperative; (3) black students fail because they have had few literacy…

Describes a study of the background knowledge of students in respiratory physiology courses. Finds that instructors tended to both overestimate and underestimate students' knowledge by large margins on individual questions. (Author/WRM)

One of a series of articles on principles of good practice in legal education, this article focuses on the importance of communicating high expectations. Discusses transmitting expectations through relationships, motivating students to want to do more for themselves, countering racist and sexist expectations, and modeling high expectations. (DB)

A study examined literature on mathematics learning disabilities (LD) and identified specific behaviors of students with mathematics LD. Data are presented from observations of 391 special educators on 1,724 students with LD, 870 with math weaknesses. Difficulty with multi-step problems was the single most important behavior for predicting math…

To make group learning situations more equitable, teachers can create a mixed set of expectations for everyone. To carry out this intervention, teachers must choose an appropriately rich cooperative task and convince students that it involves many different intellectual abilities, no one has all of these abilities, and everyone will have some of…