Presents a controversy over the preparatory schooling of two-year-old children. The article argues that small children who attended "maternal schools" at age two years had achievements superior to those of children starting school at three years. (CK)

Reviews collection development difficulties encountered at Nigeria's University of Ilorin as a result of the inflation of serial subscription prices and the poor state of the Nigerian economy in the 1980s. Describes the library's successful use of the World Bank loan of 1990-1993 to fund journal renewals and purchases. (JMV)

Revisits the comments made in "Statement of Purposes and Style for Manuscripts" and "From the Editors" in the first issue (Volume 1, Number 1, 1973) of "Theory and Research in Social Education." Focuses on the conception of social studies education and its professional orientation. (CMK)

The "U.S. News and World Report" rankings of colleges do not affect institutions equally; the schools impacted most are those that have the most to lose because they benefit from, even rely on, the rankings for prestige and visibility. The magazine relies on the rankings for substantial sales revenues, and has garnered considerable power…

Reviews Web sites for current events news that are appropriate for students of various ages. Discusses the possibilities for second language learning and curriculum connections and lists television sites, news magazines, classroom magazines, newspapers, and lesson plans. (LRW)

Examines how libraries and librarians can compare full-text general periodical indices, using ProQuest Direct, Periodical Abstracts (via Ovid), and EBSCOhost as examples. Explores breadth and depth of coverage; manipulation of results (email/download/print); ease of use (searching); and indexing quirks. (AEF)

Discusses whether the "Economist" magazine is a suitable source for the analysis of the language of economics, and argues that its discourse is essentially journalistic and very different from that of a textbook. (Author/VWL)

Presents the process whereby digitization of a journal is used to preserve and provide access to the contents on the World Wide Web. Describes the project's objectives and goals and the steps taken toward meeting those goals. The journal chosen was "The Canadian Architect and Builder." Includes an annotated appendix of hardware and…

An evaluation of the "Modern Language Association of America International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures" (MLAIB) was undertaken to determine whether it might index large pools of social science research. It was compared with 11 social science periodical indexes and bibliographies for journal…

Examines the development of the concept and scope of comparative education, tracing it from the origins of the Comparative Education Society in Europe and the British Comparative and International Education Society (BCIES) to the merger of BCIES with the new British Association of International and Comparative Education. Focuses on the journal…

Offers the speech by John M. Geringer, recipient of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) 2000 Senior Researcher Award, that was presented to the Society for Research in Music Education. Focuses on how to mentor researchers, publications in the field, and the importance of academic pluralism to all music related research. (CMK)

The Internet makes scholarly electronic journals an opportune global mode of communication for scholarly exchange, where national and international borders are erased. The American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group, Communications among Researchers (AERA SIG CR) lists over one hundred electronic journals in the field of…

We reviewed the body of published research in the journal "Teaching of Psychology" ("ToP") concerning diversity issues (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status). Between 1974 and 2002, approximately 7% of articles published in "ToP" substantively dealt with diversity issues, with gender issues…

This article explores home decorating magazines as gendered pedagogical sites that are especially concerned with art education. First, it describes the wider economic conditions in which these magazines fulfill functions of promoting longing and consumption related to the home. Then, it considers learner/teacher relations and the kinds of…

There have been concerns that nonnative-speaking (NNS) researchers are at some disadvantage due to power differentials that result from the predominance of English in the academic world. This study investigates the assumptions and the findings of previous studies related to NNS researchers' publications in English in internationally refereed…