A good way "to get at gender" is to ask students to write about their literacy because literacy is a good catalyst for discussion and analysis regarding the complexities of gender. A number of recent articles connect composition studies with issues of gender, including those by Elizabeth Flynn, Geoff Sirc, Linda Peterson, Don Kraemer…

An experimental study compared celebrity evaluations of a treatment group exposed to a celebrity endorsed prosocial message and a control group shown a picture of the celebrity. Subjects, 88 young adults (younger than 25 years) enrolled in an introductory communications class at a mid-size university in the northeastern United States, were…

A study examined the patterns of talk in discussions of literature in classrooms where students are labeled "average," and examined the perspectives of teachers and students in such classrooms on the goals and difficulties of discussions of literature. Five English teachers and their 8th- through 12th-grade students participated in…

Apparently, textbooks still profoundly influence teachers' behavior and what students have an opportunity to learn in schools. Textbook content may be substantially influenced by seven conglomerate-owned publishing companies earning 57 percent of textbook revenue and by two states (Florida and Texas) with policies mandating statewide use of a…

Author discussed the problem the classroom teacher faces when meeting "disruptive behavior" during his teaching time. (Author/RK)

This article reports on student reactions to a competency-based teacher education program during its first year of implementation. Various data collection procedures were utilized. Overall, their attitudes toward this particular program and to competency-based teacher education in general are very favorable. (Author)

Cautions educators not to make field trips convergent experiences resulting in a one-world view but to allow students to raise introspective questions about their intimate relationship with the web of natural reciprocity. (BR)

With racial balance revealed as just the tip of the desegregation iceberg, White Plains launched a broad program in human relations. (Editor)

Studied the enjoyment and comprehension of riddles and nonriddles by first, third, and fifth grade normal children. Also investigated the relationship of sex to the enjoyment of humor. (SDH)

A survey of 1,457 students in 20 high schools in the New York Metropolitan Area reports data on how students evaluate the quality of school "Outputs," judge the correctness of power relations in the school, and react to the school power structure in terms of school reform and the student rights movement. (EH)

At one time or another virtually all public relations courses use the group project to facilitate "real world" learning for students. Public relations faculty report forming the groups themselves in one (or a combination) of three ways: basing the choice on class assignments and prior knowledge of the students; leaving the decision up to…

The purpose of this paper is to promote a problematic based upon the hypothesis of match and mismatch between teaching strategies and learning styles. Evidence is examined that supports the proposition that match and mismatch may be vital factors in evaluating teaching effectiveness. Classical experiments are extraneous to the debate because the…

The purpose of the study was to investigate and describe the teaching strategies of five teachers fostering the natural development of literacy in prekindergarten children, prior to and during the teachers' introduction to a meaning-centered model of written language learning. Teachers were interviewed and videotaped. Observations were followed by…

A research project surveyed 97 students enrolled in Composition 101 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in an effort to determine what goes on in the mind of a student faced with three choices of argument topics. The hypothesis was that Topic C--profanity--would be chosen most often and that the reasons cited would be "universality,"…