Argues that the "voices" of English-as-a-Second-Language teachers have received too little attention in second-language learning research and that, too often, teachers have had to implement "visions" of teaching-learning generated by academics in institutions of higher education. Using interviews with Thai teachers of English,…

A study of 1,640 adults (ages 18-29) with disabilities examined factors associated with employment outcomes. Several factors were significantly associated with employment outcomes, including the following: gender, race, family income, educational attainment, activity limitation, health status, hospitalization, and Supplemental Security Income…

Studied how enrollment size influences two organizational features of schools: curriculum and social relations. Interviews with teachers, principals, guidance counselors, and students in six public high schools and three schools of choice (two religious, one public) showed the personal nature of social relations in small schools and the targeting…

Explores Egyptian science teachers' views of (1) science education in London secondary schools and (2) how London schools influenced their teaching in Egypt. Explains that the Egyptian teachers were participating in a 12-week in-service course at King's College, London. Discusses the results. (CMK)

Presents an interview with award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya, a prolific and renowned author of Chicano literature for adults and award-winning author of children's books featuring Mexican and American protagonists. Discusses his decision to become a writer, his work as mentor and advocate for Chicano writers, his writing for children, and the…

Presents an interview with the flutist, James Galway, in which he discusses issues such as the musical culture of Ireland, his technical mastery as a musician, and the importance of music education in the lives of young people. (CMK)

Explores intergroup bias with nonethnic peer social groups by asking 30 children between the ages of 4 and 12 to make attributions about both positive and negative behaviors performed by both someone they liked and and someone they disliked. Discusses the results. (CMK)

Reports the results of a study on teacher use of community resources to provide background for program development. Focuses on the Hanford Education Consortium in Washington. Discusses the implications that the results of the study have for the ongoing design of a program for sharing community expertise with schools. (DDR)

Examines 10 early childhood services in South Australia, using a model of process-oriented quality. Presents results related to information strategies, communication processes, relationships between family and staff, participation in curriculum, and effectiveness of the model. Discusses staff role in achieving high quality. Asserts that the…

Presents information based on a yearlong study of character education in an elementary school that was implementing "Kids with Character." Offers an analysis of the responses by students, teachers, and parents about character, development of character, and the program. Indicates that contemporary character education programs are similar…

Focuses on how teaching experience at a newly implemented second language writing center contributed towards personal theory development of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing for three teachers. Combined the literature on teacher knowledge with ESL writing to study teachers' changing beliefs about ESL writers, readers, texts, and contexts.…

Through teacher and colleague interviews, presents experiences of first-year teacher in a poor, urban elementary school and his attempts to enact a social reconstructionist curriculum. Describes student resistance to the teacher's practices and his ability to help students adjust to a new way of learning. (LBT)

Traced four Canadian Grade 10 students' descriptions and interpretations of evaluative discourse in their junior high school, focusing on the use of effort and ability attributions to explain successes and failures. Each student participated individually in five semi-structured interviews with the researcher that were audiotaped, transcribed, and…

Used semi-structured interviews to examine a grounded theory of beliefs that Canadian teachers and Japanese immigrant parents hold regarding schooling and learning. Results indicate that the participants' belief systems can consist of three layers: the general belief system concerning school and learning; opinions regarding learning difficulties;…

Presents an interview with distinguished educator Louise Rosenblatt. Discusses teaching methods, reading processes, application of theory to practice, literature-based curriculum, and what she is working on now. (SR)