Assessment practices of 143 elementary and secondary school teachers were studied. Results indicated that assessment practices were highly variable and unpredictable from teacher characteristics such as practice setting, gender, experience, grade level, or familiarity with school district practices. Practices of many teachers reflected their own…

Presents an overview of recent approaches to management and examines the ethical implications of using these approaches. Applies elements of these innovative systems to three cases that are both managerially and ethically complex. Claims that new processes must be developed to address ethical issues as part of all management decisions. (RJM)

Examines a family-centered approach to the prescription and delivery of computers to children with disabilities. Discusses effective team decision making regarding computers in the home environment, and the relevance of family and cultural factors, such as family routines, stress, cultural value systems, and time constraints. Considers…

Discusses the use of case studies in the development of professional competence for students in a colloquium in Business Administration at Boricua College, New York (New York). The case study provides an integration of elements that develops personal and professional values in addition to subject content knowledge. (SLD)

The former director of the Central Park East projects believes children's schooling should be geared toward citizenship and "generalist" vocational interests, not college admission requirements. Kindergarten encourages openness and empathy, but effects dissipate with each passing year. Educators must focus on the habits, skills, and…

Looking at structural issues that have influenced the development of Welsh and English in modern Wales, this article examines lessons gleaned from the construction of a comprehensive bilingual social order. Evidence is included from a variety of sources concerned with language and cultural reproduction. (16 references) (Author/CK)

Validates a framework for assessing children's thinking in multidigit number situations and uses the framework to evaluate instructional programs. Key constructs--counting, partitioning, grouping, and number relationships--appear stable within each of 5 levels across 12 case studies, suggesting a possible hierarchy of thinking. (DF)

Describes development of the School Culture Inventory (SCI). Interviews of staff, parents, and students in three high-performing secondary schools in British Columbia identified common attitudes and values related to organizational culture, which were then used to construct student, parent, and teacher surveys comprising the SCI. Pilot testing…

Explored children's conscience using narrative measures of responses to hypothetical moral dilemmas and objective measures. Found that children who experienced more power-assertive maternal discipline produced fewer themes of commitment to and concern about good behavior and were more poorly internalized on observed and mother-reported measures.…

Discusses the cultural and philosophical influences that resulted in the establishment of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece. Examines the ancient Greek ideals of health, beauty, and intellect. Includes a table listing the dates of added competitions (boxing, pentathlon) to the contest. (MJP)

Judicial codes are often conceived and administered as if a single, common set of values and norms govern students' values and behaviors. This article discusses how specific student groups can find themselves at odds with assumptions underlying judicial codes and provides some direction for the administration of judicial codes for judicial affairs…

Compared to home life, schools resemble crossroads, village squares, marketplaces, and cities. Increasing deliberative interactions among diverse students helps instill habits of behavior necessary for public life: the courtesies, manners, tolerance, respect, sense of justice, and knack for forging public policy with others. This article explains…

Interviews a professor of psychology and education who discusses the implicit messages about differences and power relationships that children receive from the adults around them. Teachers should assess their own biases and work to ensure that multicultural education is more than superficial window dressing. (SLD)

Describes the variety of summer training programs for teachers that gives them opportunities for professional growth in tolerance-related education. The 10 programs reviewed address issues such as character education, African American culture, the Holocaust, values education, gender issues, and other aspects of multicultural education and conflict…

Attempts to demonstrate the linkage between opinions, attitudes, and ideologies and to look for ways of explaining variation in opinions as well as in shared social dimensions of evaluative beliefs. The article argues that theories of discourse and ideologies, as well as the cognitive aspects of ideologies, should not be reduced to any partial…