Compelling empirical research shows that a positive and sustained school climate promotes students' academic achievement and healthy development. Not surprisingly, a positive school climate also promotes teacher retention, which itself enhances student success. Yet the knowledge of the effects of school climate on learning has not been translated…

The present brief paper seeks to delineate some "helpful hints" that teachers can use in order to help their students to excel. Each of these notions, offered here, are very much in keeping with the ideas offered in the Quality School, which was authored by William Glasser (1990). Furthermore, one's score on this scale (i.e., the number of "YESES"…

A series of spreadsheet modeling exercises constructed as part of a new upper-level elective course on solid state materials and surface chemistry is described. The spreadsheet exercises are developed to provide students with the opportunity to interact with the conceptual framework where the role of the density of states and the Fermi-Dirac…

We analyzed students' ratings and comments of their psychology instructors that were posted on RateMyProfessors.com and RateMyProfessors.ca to determine which features of a course and an instructor evoked the most positive and negative reactions. A content analysis of students' comments showed that instructors' characteristics(e.g., enthusiastic,…

Although schools are not traditionally designed to provide intensive mental health services to children, they are in a position to create systems that foster mental health. By creating school-wide systems in which students are academically, behaviorally and socially successful, schools can integrate those essential protective factors shown to…

Article examined what a few teachers had to say about the place of the arts at one school--Tower Hill School, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Author/RK)

Author challenged us to uncover some ways and to devise others to make the divine spirit that gives us life more accessible, more articulate in speech. In this way we may turn from the path that is compelling the withdrawal of confidence--and money--from private schools. (Author/RK)

Students were given insights into sculpture as space rather than as mass, thereby learning to enjoy contemporary works more easily. (RK)

Article considered the challenge a mother pursuing a career faced when also attempting to help her child gain an education. (RK)

Presented at the 1974 annual conference of the National Association for Women Deans, Administrators, and Counselors, this paper examines the differencesand similarities between Student Services and Student Development. (HV)

Article described a way to help young students develop their vocabulary and word recognition skills. (RK)

Article described how a chart story could make a tedious, run-of-the-mill daily chore into an actual, valuable, daily, learning experience. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the principles of academic freedom and their meaning for the educational community. (RK)

Author used an innovative method to help students improve on their sentence building. (RK)