College fundraisers can alienate major donors by: not tailoring the "ask" to the individual; not preparing the donor sufficiently; not coordinating the solicitation schedule with colleagues; unsuitable meeting setting; excluding people from the meeting; not planning the solicitation meeting; being inflexible; not listening; promising what can't be…

Attempts to refocus aesthetic education for art teachers and argues the need to see aesthetics in society. Discusses the ideas of T. Irene Sanders, Bernd Schmitt, and Alex Simonson to demonstrate real-world support for aesthetic education. Uses two examples: eye glasses and bathrooms. (CMK)

Discusses the lacking role of art history in the visualization revolution stating how the discipline whose raison d'etre has been thinking with, about, and through pictures has not grappled the profound intellectual ramifications of the digital revolution. Focuses on issues that art history should address in order to realize its potential. (CMK)

Explores college students' attitudes towards the formulation of a Russian, all-national ideology. Focuses on the results of a survey with 82 respondents offering affirmative answers and 20 giving negative answers. Reviews the types of responses that students gave and the students' reactions to the motto "Conscience. Fatherland. Mankind."…

Demonstrates how a theoretical framework that includes a politics of difference and multicultural feminism may help reconceptualize democracy in general and education for democracy specifically. Indicates how universality has failed in practice, posits "equivalent rights" instead of "equal rights," and discusses instructional…

Advocates using debate with F.R. Stockton's "The Lady, or the Tiger" to sharpen critical skills in literary interpretation. Poses a series of questions at five-minute intervals and sets up an affirmative and a negative side on which students debate the next day. Suggests also debating on literary values, an author's intentions, etc. (PA)

Explored in two studies disparities between how students with different degrees of extroversion and introversion engaged in small-group discussions requiring construction and critique of arguments. Found that extroverted students exhibited a greater tendency to use conflictual discourse, whereas introverted students worked with one another…

A binational management course used computer-mediated small-group discussions between students in the United States and Hungary. Individual and dyad (U.S.-Hungarian student pairs) case analyses were evaluated using an integrative complexity measure. Despite technical difficulties, students produced complex and comprehensive arguments after three…

A study investigated effects of particular units of study on gifted elementary and middle school learners (n=2,189). The use of an integrated literature and writing unit produced significant gains for gifted learners in key aspects of language arts as assessed by demonstration of high-level thinking on performance-based measures. (Contains…

Contends that a problem with using discussion in the classroom is that only a few students participate actively. Provides four strategies teachers can use to involve all of their students in a discussion and to encourage the development of their students' understanding of historical issues and problems. Includes a handout. (CMK)

Describes two successful fund-raising campaigns conducted by the new Dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas, Austin. Describes strategies used as a novice fund-raiser with no help from a development officer. Suggests that the Aristotelian principles will serve anyone well if he or she is willing to give it the time and…

Citing the results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exams, author disputes conclusion in Skrla and others article that Texas high-stakes accountability system significantly increased educational equity and social justice for racial minority students. (PKP)

Investigated pragmatic aspects of task-performance in a series of argumentation tasks that Hungarian learners of English performed over a period of 2 years. Sought to determine how task repetition, long-term development of language skills, and a short-term focused intervention influenced various pragmatic measures of task performance. (Author/VWL)

Responds to the article "Rethinking the Graduate Seminar." Argues that the two key assumptions of the article are not grounded in empirical realities that attend higher education in the 1990s. Discusses the use of student-to-student writing critiques in the graduate seminar to facilitate student growth. (CMK)

Focuses on three devices (plan, analysis, and context) with which one can consider electronic mail. States that the inequality in "message contexts" (social, mental, and physical) is the problem in electronic mail communication. Offers implications for using semiotics with visual culture in education. (CMK)