Efforts to develop interventions to improve homework performance have been impeded by limitations in the measurement of homework performance. This study was conducted to develop rating scales for assessing homework performance among students in elementary and middle school. Items on the scales were intended to assess student strengths as well as…

When students leave high school equipped with self-advocacy and self-determination skills, they will be more likely to disclose their disability and ultimately gain access to the services they need to support their learning needs in the educational environment. Yet, many students with disabilities do not enter college equipped with the tools they…

Against the wider background of increasing interest in pupil voice, this article gives examples of the student involvement activity in the largest of the National College of School Leadership (NCSL) development and enquiry initiatives: the Networked Learning Communities project. In programme-level research, student voice and participation were…

This article talks about a prominent researcher and an elementary school who teamed up last year to identify what works--and what does not--when it comes to teaching young children about gender bullying. Rebecca Bigler, a psychologist at the University of Texas-Austin whose nationally recognized research focuses on racial stereotyping and gender…

Authority, it has been suggested, depends upon a complex form of negotiation between the parties involved. What tactics, then, ought teachers to employ in day-to-day school management? (Editor)

Successful online learning requires a reconstruction of the roles, responsibilities, and practices of online instructors and their online students. It is essential to understand the dynamics of a range of online learning environments, the perceptions and pre-conceptions that exist, and how best to utilize the potential of current technology to…

The discipline of discipline is the cornerstone upon which educators should build the other disciplines. Teaching responsibility for one's actions must stand beside the teaching of writing, reading, and arithmetic. Discipline cannot be mastered when stifled with negative reward systems and punishment. This paper describes a comprehensive…

Through the implementation of a combination of five critical concepts, the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents (RICA) Cheltenham program in Maryland attempts to provide a milieu whereby all activities are designed to have therapeutic impact on the students. Essentially, each adult, as a team member, becomes a provider of therapeutic…

This pamphlet discusses the Modesto Plan, a program designed in 1976 by the Modesto (California) city schools to restore educational standards and public confidence. The school system's statement of principles is defined first, followed by a lengthy discussion of the major elements of the program--academic expectations and student behavior.…

Designed by 20 gifted and talented adolescents, the book focuses on ways the gifted student can assume responsibility for his own education. Discussed in Chapter I on being gifted are problems of peer rejection, teacher influences, social values, and age disparities, as well as ways of dealing successfully with these difficulties. Chapter II…

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has undertaken a general program development activity in the area of student rights and responsibilities. In August 1973 a committee of professional educators was appointed to develop guidelines for the Student Rights and Responsibilities Program. During December 1973 and January 1974, the draft of the guidelines…

The nature of personal rights and how such rights apply to an individual's right to learn are analyzed in the light of the obligations of the education system to that individual. (JD)

Presenting a chapter from the author's book "The Last Straw: A Handbook of Solutions to School Behavior Problems," this article discusses physically disabled students in terms of accepting responsibility, feeling needed in the classroom, and developing basic skills. Numerous categories of disabilities are discussed. (JC)

The California Social Science Education Framework in expressing concern for the values of a free society identifies four values which will help our citizens move toward the building of a more perfect union. Students should be taught these values in an attempt to help them recognize the relationship between the dominant values of their society and…