Reports a study which sought to determine the factors which influence the size and quality of the facilities provided. (SB)

Life history data of educators should be analyzed for research purposes. The focus should be changed from an obsession with specific events and statistical data to a much broader historical sweep. Life history investigations set against the background of teaching patterns should provide an antidote to depersonalized accounts of schooling. (JN)

Examines the results of the National Survey of Economic Education 1981 and suggests how its data may form a basis for future research. More economics is being taught by better trained teachers using better material than any time in the past. Teachers want more training and materials. (AM)

Preservice teacher education programs should promote skills that enable teachers to select activities and resources for continued professional growth. (MM)

A survey of adult basic education teachers in Georgia revealed that their socioeconomic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds were related to the degree of emphasis they gave to nontraditional curricular areas such as health and consumer education, ethnic heritage, and life-coping skills. (SK)

The study assessed attitudes of 320 home economics teachers toward death and the extent to which they incorporated death education in their curricula. Attitudes were correlated with personal experiences. Results showed a significant relationship between attitudes and recent funeral attendance. Eighty-seven percent agreed that death education…

In this article, information collected from two undergraduates serves as an example of how the study of preservice teachers' biographies can inform teacher preparation. (IAH)

Reviews a book, "Teachers' Voices for School Change" by Andrew Gitlin, on educative research and teacher voice, examining the educative research process which grounds reflection in the life histories of teacher researchers, presenting four case studies on educative research, and reflecting on the educative research process itself.…

Data from the National Education Longitudinal Study showed that a match between teachers' race, gender, or ethnicity (RGE) and students' RGE had little association with achievement, but sometimes determined teachers' subjective evaluation of students. The influence of these subjective factors suggests that in some cases teachers' RGE do matter.…

Discusses three major characteristics that are important for child care professionals: experience, knowledge, and special personal qualities. Among the special personal qualities discussed are those of anticipating and planning, protecting, listening, comforting, and caring for the whole family. (BB)

Retired teacher Roma Gans is described in terms of her early life and education, early teaching experience, teaching experience at Teachers College, publishing experience, citizenship, and retirement. (DG)

Many British academics have trained in circumstances outside the mainstream of British higher education. They appear to have avoided the formal and informal restrictions applied to the mass of students. An associated issue is the lack of any clear purpose in graduate study in Britain as employers continue to recruit recent graduates with little…

Suggests that effective teaching requires understanding of what students know and what they are ready to learn. Claims that the biggest problem faced by the author in coming out of a teacher education program was his belief that he was "done"--what he was missing was many of the frameworks and tools needed to construct his teaching. (RS)