A survey of first-year medical students on their first day and after a year measured discrepancies between expectations and experiences. At the end of the second year, students reminded of their unfulfilled expectations expressed no affect on class morale or emotional climate. Most were indifferent to their first-year responses. (Author/MSE)

Finds that 138 rural and 76 urban Kansas principals differed significantly on 10 of 20 attitude questions concerning gifted education, including the state mandate placing gifted students under special education provisions, their local school program, the principal's role, and their philosophy of education for the gifted. Contains 12 references.…

Discusses the use of electronic glossaries, annotated texts, and other ancillae in German-as-a-Second-Language courses at the college level, and asserts that electronic media deliver lexical assistance far more effectively than do traditional methods, using texts in ways previously unavailable. (MDM)

Working with unemployed youth with negative attitudes toward learning, a community educator applied Freire's methods to lead them through reflection on their circumstances and participation in a dialog on learning in which their own words would be heard. (SK)

Introduces this special issue on the provision of integrated, comprehensive educational services for preschool children, focusing on advances in this area in Denmark, Spain, and New Zealand, and the lack of such services on a national scale in the United Kingdom. (MDM)

This reprint of a 1960 conference paper discusses the role of education in bringing about world peace, focusing on Maria Montessori's ideas for promoting peace through a student-centered, nurturing curriculum for young children. Argues that only through the eyes of children can humankind understand the necessity for peaceful coexistence. (MDM)

Discusses the role of education in bringing about world peace, focusing on the causes and nature of war and peace, educational change, and Maria Montessori's ideas for promoting peace through a student-centered, nurturing curriculum for young children. Reprint of a 1962 article that quotes extensively from an address given by Maria Montessori in…

Compares policies and attitudes toward drug education in the schools in the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, and Spain with regard to the placement of drug education in the secondary curriculum, whether elementary school children should receive drug education, and the extent of related teacher education. (SV)

An interview with Thom Alcoze, director of the Division of Native Education at Northern Arizona University (NAU), discusses efforts to develop culturally appropriate strategies for training Native American teachers and teachers of Native children. Current efforts focus on environmental sciences based on the Native traditions and a critique of…

In group interviews with 32 Idaho Hispanic females participating in adult vocational education and 31 nonparticipants, length of residency, marital status, and educational attainment predicted participation. Age, barriers, and degree of acculturation related to nonparticipation. (SK)

A book entitled "Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian," a memoir that chronicles Carlisle Indian School founder Richard Pratt's experience, is reviewed. The book reveals both the humanistic and the patronizing attitudes that were to have a substantial impact on Indian lives and history. (MSE)

Six focus group interviews with 49 adults over 65 determined that they have educational and information needs and are motivated to participate by social contact and new knowledge/skills. Physiological and psychological as well as financial costs must be considered; varied delivery methods using mass communication were recommended. (SK)

Uses theories from a wide range of disciplines to analyze representations of schooling in rock and pop songs. Examines songs from the 1950s to Britpop and the present. Declares that schooling is overwhelmingly represented as the antithesis of leisure. Addresses other relationships between schooling and music, such as temporality and violence. (CMK)

Argues that many of the agents of transmission of persuasive communication to the classroom (i.e., public relations and advertising educators) are not as well prepared for the task as might be thought. Considers how curricular integration in advertising and public relations makes good economic sense, but to also make good educational sense it…

Discusses results of a school-community survey administered to parents and teachers in nine K-5 buildings in two Pennsylvania districts. Surveys were correlated with student-performance indicators and with the school's poverty index and average daily attendance. Results indicate that school and home practices important to academic learning vary…