In an attempt to create interdisciplinary study at one college, a gender and communications class was created by professors from psychology and communications. Although the class was made-up of students who were white, middle-class, and heterosexual, the class attempted to discuss issues about race, class, ability, and sexual preference…

This paper presents personal thoughts about addressing a seventh-grade civics class on the gay civil rights movement, a subject generally considered an adult issue. The situation manifests the dilemma as to whether talking to young adolescents about gay issues is in fact recruiting them, or planting dangerous thoughts in their minds. In…

Community colleges recognize the need to plan and implement change through professional development, particularly in light of the constantly changing environment in the community college. This digest briefly examines four of the delivery methods being employed by community colleges in the field of professional development. Between 1999 and 2002,…

What do you want to accomplish? Whatever it is, you need money to do it, and on most campuses, the biggest source of funding is enrollment-related revenue from students. Yet, interestingly, perhaps because most chief executives are more familiar with fundraising, opportunities to strengthen enrollment revenue often receive less attention than…

Study of the mechanisms by which social origins influence educational attainment and the importance of education attainment in the determination of one's place in the social hierarchy. (Author)

This study investigated the effect of two dimensions of parent-daughter relationship on achievement and values of college women. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to consider the function and the use of lists of objectives prepared by someone other than the learner. (Author)

Training of professionals and technicians should be means to an end, not an end in itself. (Editor)

Research project underway at the University of Sheffield, England, to examine how variations in the physical and social environment affect behavior in groups of preschool children. In its first year, currently in progress, the effects on behavior of relative abundance or scarcity of important resources of the physical environment (available space…

Article describes one group of teachers and their efforts to work together during the first three semesters of the West Philadelphia Community Free School. (Authors)

Results showed that both groups of children used a sequential rather than a logical order as a guide in answering questions, and that there was no indication that sighted children used a strategy of spatial coding. (Authors)

Contrasts the occupational aspirations and expectations of 264 black male and female urban high school seniors and 157 rural high school seniors. (JM)