Presents a study, focusing on 15-year old students, that demonstrates how an experimental reading program improved students' abilities using four reading activities: (1) looking for key fragments, (2) paying attention to structure marking elements, (3) making up questions, and (4) mapping important information from a text. Demonstrates an…

Describes a law-related training program at Eastern Kentucky University that focuses on changing elementary student teachers' perceptions of social studies. Identifies six factors upon which the program is based. Results of this program indicate that links among all participants in the student teaching experience should be strengthened. (KO)

Describes effectiveness of parable format for increasing student understanding of counseling concepts and for helping students attain self-actualization. Illustrates effectiveness by describing his published parable entitled Gifts From Eykis. Argues that counselor educators should consider using literature and other creative vehicles in their…

Discusses conference program proposals from the perspective of a former cochair of several international and regional scholarly conference committees. Describes the duties of program chairs. Outlines the way conference program decisions are meted out. Provides suggestions for perfect conference proposals. (HB)

Describes the notion of second chances and its application to education. Presents a framework for evaluating second-chance programs based on accessibility and selection, adjustability of applicants, adjusted educational methods, productivity, accreditation, and acknowledgement. Examines possible illusions and rituals preventing a genuine second…

Presents results of a study using a switching regression model to correct for biases in assessing the gain in economic knowledge from high school economic courses. Explains that regressors used included geometry, civics, female, African-American, college, twelfth, and dummy variables. Reports substantial differences between students who elect…

The debate over how to educate gifted children reflects a larger conflict in American education: equity versus excellence. Many teachers see gifted programs as a challenge to their competence; others consider cooperative learning as a threat to the education of gifted students. (IAH)

Discusses the family night concert as a way to involve family members in music education, where they can participate in the orchestra or as part of a family act. Describes how to create the family concert. Includes a sample invitation and a program to a family night performance. (CMK)

Examines the effects of Classwide Peer Tutoring (CWPT) with reinforcement (CWPT+R) and without reinforcement (CWPT-R) on 77 Chinese students' spelling performance and intrinsic interest in lower secondary school Integrated Science. Reveals that the CWPT+R group made greater learning gains, while the same group displayed lower intrinsic interest in…

Describes molding students into positive change agents. Includes a model that links change agent skills to civic engagement. Presents two projects that include positive change agent skills in the context of civic engagement. States that positive change agent skills prepare students for career success. (CMK)

Explains a Martin-Luther-University at Halle research project that aims to learn about the effects of restructuring and transformation following the political change in the new Bundeslaender on the professional and biographically determined convictions and structures of pedagogical practice of male and female teachers in Sachsen-Anhalt (Germany).…

Addresses the National History Day 2000-2001 competition topic "Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas," which encourages analysis of how frontiers develop and their impact on human life. Describes different approaches to the topic, what is expected of students, and the competition itself. (CMK)

Investigates student and community satisfaction with programs designed and implemented by students for groups of pediatric clients who were identified as at risk or in need of psychological services. Reports that students and the community expressed high levels of satisfaction and that confidence in student ability increased by the end of the…

Discusses current technology standards for teacher preparation programs. Describes the standards, performance profile, and statement of basic principles/actions developed by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE). Addresses the program standards developed by…

Discusses the philosophy of Core Knowledge that was developed by E. D. Hirsch and provides a description of the Core Knowledge curriculum sequence. Examines the history and language arts Core Knowledge curricula that foster civic virtue and the relationship between Core Knowledge and character education. Describes one program focusing on character…