With the emergence of a new generation of strong and empowered female student leaders on college campuses, a special type of female leader, the Alpha Female, has developed. This study examines the essence of having an Alpha Female identity for 13 undergraduate women at a Midwestern university. Extensive interviews were conducted; transcripts were…

Over the next 20 years, experts predict that the number of Latina/o children in the U.S. will double, so that by the year 2025, one in four school children will be Latina/o (White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, 1998). Yet the academic achievement of Latina/os lags far behind that of other ethnic and racial…

A growing body of literature on risk and resilience, school engagement, and positive psychology offers school psychologists new perspectives with which to consider students' progress through school. This literature emphasizes the importance of monitoring student internal and external assets. In this article, a framework is reviewed that highlights…

This article describes a stage-based model of leadership identity development (LID) that resulted from a grounded theory study on developing a leadership identity (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, & Osteen, 2005). The LID model expands on the leadership identity stages, integrates the categories of the grounded theory into the LID model, and…

The author attempted to create an awareness of the representative fiction which is read by adolescents in order to dramatize the high regard, however misguided, our society places on the cult of violence and killing as part of youth's initiation into the adult world. (Author/RK)

Western Nebraska Technical College held a seminar whose main function was to provide reinforcement in several areas of secretarial training for the students. (BP)

Discussed the principles of Modern Architecture and Froebel's principles and their influence upon Frank Lloyd Wright. (RK)

Described a project in which students learned to feel a sense of love and respect for nature. (Author/RK)

Discussed a way to stimulate students toward increasing their interests in writing by use of the short story. (RK)

Article described a novel weaving project for slow learners in a junior high special education class. (Author/RK)

Author approached the problem of stimulating students to learn the exacting and physically tiring process of music education through use of some musical instrument. (RK)

"What one school or community sees as educationally effective, another might denounce as tasteless or unnecessarily abrasive or just too novel." If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a caught on the publisher's side of censorship in schools, read this article. (Editor)

This booklet contains six papers which focus on the affective or internalized part of the curriculum--alterations in attitudes, motives, values, and other psychological states related to the experience a child has in the classroom. "The Consequences of Schooling" by Philip W. Jackson deals with such nonacademic consequences as evaluative…

After an introductory section describing the rationale behind the adoption of comprehensive educational objectives for public education, the objectives are set out in two parts. Part One, dealing with goals for student development, includes 1) communication and learning skills, 2) citizenship education, 3) occupational interests, 4) mental and…