Explores the educational and legal questions extending from the judiciary's intervention into the student disciplinarian relationship, among them, the post-Tinker developments in student discipline procedures are traced. (Author/AM)

In her survey of 175 adult immigrants, the author found that very few of the respondents had received bilingual help from local schools or English as a Second Language (ESL) programs. The importance of ESL teachers and school counselors in helping children and parents learn a second language is stressed. Strategies are suggested. (NWS)

A curriculum containing the key concepts of the basic disciplines in selected sciences, arts, and humanities would function to help individuals understand their world and to enrich the store of images and categories with which they can think and feel and choose as educated (cultivated) persons. (Author/MLF)

The school's major social function is that of servicing and maintaining, with its inequities, the existing social system. (Author/MLF)

A hidden curriculum consists of those learning states of a setting that are either unintended or intended but not openly acknowledged to the learners in the setting unless the learners are aware of them. Consciousness-raising may be the best weapon of individuals who are subject to hidden curricula. (Author/MLF)

Examines nine critical success factors in the performance of a polytechnic school--social tune, cost effectiveness, course development, corporate reputation, investment in human capital, development of physical facilities, student relations, employee relations, and public responsibility. (Author/IRT)

Examines the legal issues arising out of the regulation of extracurricular activities and the way in which these problems will likely be resolved by the courts in the coming years. (Author)

This essay examines the influence of a mandatory school-uniform dress code on academic achievement and discipline infractions. In addition, student gender and type of school district were compared to show the influence of this policy. Only schools that implemented a mandatory school-uniform policy in 1996 and had data for discipline infractions…

This study examined factors in the undergraduate classroom experience that students associate with vitality in the classroom. The study used measures reflecting concepts from the literature on the fit between student and institution, including academic and social integration, student effort and involvement, encouragement of family and friends,…

This document describes the sustainable features of the Roy Lee Walker Elementary School (Texas), a prototype "Eco Education" school that blends the physical environment with the student learning process while protecting the site. The document also presents the process of integrating sustainability criteria in all phases of the school's…

This mini-research project examined middle school students' participation in and identification with school as a social unit. The study used a student survey to explore: (1) middle schoolers' perceptions of their family educational culture, instructional quality in their school, and their ability/academic self-efficacy; (2) their patterns of…

This document discusses students on academic probation in City College of San Francisco as of Spring 2002. During any given semester, 9-10% of students are on academic probation. A majority of students on academic probation are men. Higher numbers of African American (17%) and Filipino (17%) students were on academic probation rather than Whites…

Power frames student-school relations and could be viewed as problematic for student participation. Seeking research methods that reveal the development of student-school relations furthers the understanding of everyday expressions of power and leads to reforms that would improve social relations within and beyond school walls. A project focused…

This report documents survey results in three areas concerning Wisconsin public schools: data on the physical structure and mechanical features of the school building; data on school safety issues; and information on the educational appropriateness and suitability of the school buildings. Appendices provide the school facility survey; and lists of…

The Learning through Landscape Trust conducted research on the design and management of school grounds in the United Kingdom for children with special needs and has produced this guidebook detailing that research shows about ensuring that the school grounds benefit these students. It provides advice and information on developing school grounds…