Problematic assessment and intervention issues present substantial challenges when making educational decisions for deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) students who are experiencing reading difficulties. These students present a diverse set of language acquisition skills, hearing ability, and orientation to early school learning activities that are…

Teachers have begun using student response systems (SRSs) in an effort to enhance the learning process in higher education courses. Research providing detailed information about how interactive technologies affect students as they learn is crucial for professors who seek to improve teaching quality, attendance rates and student learning. This…

A composition scholar conducted a study of peer response groups in a freshmen composition course to determine what leads to conflict among students in these groups. In the course of her study, however, she found herself deeply perplexed by conflicting roles she had to play as a participant/observer. The ethnographer as a participant/observer is,…

This paper reports on an investigation of how students, parents, and staff of 2 schools with reputations for success (they were among 21 schools in the Canadian Education Association's Exemplary School Project) experience and understand leadership. Specifically, the study, guided by a constructivist conception of leadership, sought to find out how…

A teacher attempted to make students think about what they say so that they can express themselves on paper more clearly. (RK)

Three philosophical methods, idealism, essentialism, and progressivism, were examined regarding their positions toward the analysis of classroom behavior. (Author/RK)

Whether reluctant readers are extremely bright, average, or below average in intelligence, they pose a problem for every school. Here's an account of what one school successfully did for its reluctant readers. (Editor)

This article deals with how a teacher helps high school students to "believe in themselves." We suggest that ALL teachers will find value here! (Editor)

Author provided examples to help teachers begin work in evaluative listening in their classes and considered the influence of advertising on children. (Author/RK)

Described methods teachers may take in order to help students improve their mental health. (RK)

Films are educational when they are part of an experience which gives students a conscious grasp of the processes by which they grow. (JH)

Condensed from "Today's Education, Volume 57 (November 1968), 63.