The study, with 57 children (ages 3-6) enrolled in 3 Head Start classes, demonstrated that short-term, large-group basic concept instruction combining direct instruction with interactive and incidental teaching techniques resulted in significantly improved scores on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts-Revised. (Author/DB)

The issue of rising tuition and fees in American higher education needs to be considered in the context of a comprehensive, concerted effort to limit higher education opportunities for those who are neither wealthy nor educationally gifted. In a society of increasing diversity, limitations on educational attainment pose an ominous threat.…

It is widely recognized that lectures continue to dominate college chemistry instruction, especially in developing countries, and that lectures limit student intellectual engagement. To address this concern, a General Chemistry course in a Philippine university was reconstructed to implement an instructional cycle consisting of three phases: a…

This paper explores the implementation of China's English language policy for primary schools in the 2004-5 school year through case studies of four public schools of different types. Data were collected through document reviews, interviews, and observations. The investigation of the four schools illustrates that during 2004-5 the policy has not…

An analysis of the nation's health care systems and their brutal effects on poor children. (Editor)

Authors' research indicated that the "equal and alike" approach to education doesn't work for the American Indian either. (Editor/RK)

In the last decade many people have questioned the long-range effectiveness of literacy education in America. The response to this discussion about the "literacy crisis" has been the growth of three commonly held generalizations: (1) that in previous eras, Americans enjoyed remarkable levels of literacy; (2) that the role of print has been…

Students, parents, and teachers of today should know full well that even a whole phalanx of educational reforms does not automatically prevail over the social bigotries that persist from the past. This paper provides an uncomfortable reminder of how the democratic purposes of U.S. education must be sustained not only by court decisions and…

This study evaluated the process of personality change in college students over the course of their freshman year. The criterion of academic success was the grade point average of the student at the end of the first and second semesters. (Author)

It is argued that higher education increases inequality as it effects a considerable income redistribution in which the middle classes benefit greatly while the poor, in general, lose. Possible remedies and the potential for change in the regressive nature of the system are discussed. (EH)

This report describes the various programs associated with the British educational priority area (EPA) project whose aim was to identify and evaluate practical means of implementing in the primary and pre-school the recommendations of the Plowden Report that a policy of "positive discrimination" be adopted towards the education of…

Reports on a follow-up study of Sixth Cycle Teacher Corps graduates who taught pupils in grades 2-6 across the country. These graduates were compared with other young teachers who taught the same type of pupil in the same school district, on the basis of teacher performance and teacher effectiveness measures. (JA)

STATEMENTS OF FACTS AND IMPRESSIONS GAINED BY TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS INVOLVED IN COLORADO'S SPECIAL TERMS FOR MIGRATORY CHILDREN ARE COMPILED. TWO FACTS STAND OUT IN ALL THE REPORTS. ONE IS THE GREAT NEED FOR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF ALL WHO WORK WITH MIGRANT CHILDREN, THE SECOND IS THE DIFFICULTY IN DEVELOPING COMPREHENSION AND…

CHILDREN OF MIGRANT WORKERS ENTER SCHOOL LATE, HAVE POOR ATTENDANCE PATTERNS, SHOW SLOW PROGRESS, AND DROP OUT EARLY. THEY ARE THE MOST EDUCATIONALLY DEPRIVED GROUP OF CHILDREN IN THE COUNTRY. THESE CHILDREN HAVE BECOME A CRITICAL NATIONAL PROBLEM, SINCE LACK OF AN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION CAN CONDEMN THEM TO A LIFE OF IGNORANCE, POVERTY, AND…