Offering a degree in advance of the traditional B.A. will "exalt the liberal arts curriculum" and better serve new students. The curriculum should be expanded to accommodate the less-qualified undergraduates and full service should be offered to the public, six days a week, year round. (MLW)

Considers recent investigations of conditions that promote forward-thinking in young people and their realization of personal goals. Discusses environmental affordance, environmental press, mediational strategies, consequence management, and resources for coping. Suggests ways educators may help individuals develop potentials for foresight and…

Tested the effectiveness of a framework that linked developmental and multicultural counseling theories for use among elementary-school-age students (n=117). Designed to help students develop a variety of social and interpersonal skills that would increase their ability to resolve conflicts resulting from negative prejudices, the intervention was…

An adventure weekend course aimed to clarify college physical education majors' perceptions of "enjoyment,""success," and "challenge" associated with physical education activities. Twenty-five students participated in a high ropes course, a climbing wall, and group problem-solving activities, and became more…

Describes how indigenous students in a remote Mexican village learned ways to document their culture and history; how teachers in this same village learned to teach reading and writing in Ayuuk, their native language; and what a Foxfire teacher learned as an instructor in the teacher workshop. Includes the Foxfire "core practices" in…

This article reviews the literature on the development of literacy, showing literacy beginnings in the infant and young child within a literate family community, literacy development in a literate school community, and literacy specialization in a teacher education community. The literature is applied to preparation of teachers of students with…

Stresses that student-centered teaching must foster the whole student. Presents a developmental model involving setting goals in courses and interactive teaching/learning strategies to create a student-centered classroom. Describes sample course goals for developing and evaluating student maturity, and argues for a model addressing self, values,…

A program in a public secondary school in London, Ontario (Canada), has provided 15 blind and visually impaired adults (mean age 33) with instruction to upgrade academic credentials and learn new job skills. Student outcomes are summarized, and discussion focuses on the potential role of public secondary schools in the adult education of this…

Describes the results of a nine-week inquiry-oriented student teaching program designed to help preservice teachers become reflective practitioners. Five program components were teaching, supervisory conferences, seminars, journal writing, and action research. Results indicated that teachers grew in reflective thinking practices when programs…

Examines issues raised at the third meeting of experimental educators, held in Moscow in 1988. Argues a teacher's creativity guarantees an educational system's health and successful reform. In a question-answer format, analyzes resistance to educational change, and teachers' responsibilities, rights, and relationships with students and…

The Academic Programs for Gifted with Excellence and Equity (APOGEE) serves the top 25% of students in various categories, such as disadvantaged, minorities, underachievers, limited English speakers, and students with disabilities. Their teachers have been trained in implementing a student-centered talent development program emphasizing choices,…

A survey of 40 graduating seniors at a small, Christian liberal arts college found student-faculty interaction perceived as a positive influence on student personal and intellectual growth, career and educational goals, especially for higher achieving students and humanities/natural science majors. Implications for administration, staff, students,…

Presents recommendations for teacher educators to prepare students to deal with sex bias in the schools (e.g., teacher educators must model what they teach, prospective teachers must study classroom dynamics to eliminate bias in classroom communication, and methods courses must incorporate research on how bias affects teaching methods). (SM)

Identified by a study of mathematically precocious youth, 107 academically accelerated gifted students were compared with 107 nonacademically accelerated gifted students. At age 23-25 years, the 2 subject groups exhibited few significant differences, and no evidence of harmful effects of academic acceleration were found. (SLD)

This paper uses a case study of a 16-year-old girl with traumatic brain injury (TBI) to present information on the demographics of head injury, neuropathology, recovery patterns, acute rehabilitation, educationally significant effects, behavioral sequelae, the school as a vehicle for rehabilitation, a transition model, school reentry, and…