Public schools must play a more central role in teacher education than they do now. What is needed is an organization separate from public schools, the university, and the teachers' organizations that can act as an effective force for teacher professionalization. (Author)

Focuses on three aspects of the young Puritan child in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: how Puritan ideology influenced attitudes toward children; whether young children were seen as children or miniature adults; and early childhood education in New England, considering the role of the family, church, and school in socializing young…

The study, "Young Children Learning," used a sample of 30 four-year-old girls to examine children's language development, their cognitive processing, and the differential effects of home backgrounds. Discussed are the development of girls and the ideas that are being presented to them both implicitly and explicitly by home and school.…

Every student at one high school in Illinois is considered to be a winner. A program is described that motivates teachers to motivate students to achieve. The program features support and communication from administration and department heads through an ongoing schoolwide publicity campaign emphasizing motivational themes. (TE)

Notes problems for rural science educators caused by the emergence of the postindustrial age. Describes developments in computer technology and notes how computers could assist rural teachers in solving postindustrial problems. Notes how rural schools' computer use could alter the role and preparation of rural science teachers. (SB)

Questions certain assertions and recommendations in the reform reports. Argues that if reforms were implemented, schooling would become more highly stratified and low-income children would suffer, that too many reforms entail conservative calls for centralization, and that the crisis in public schooling reflects a deeper crisis in the American…

The way in which the separation of family and work is reinforced and the way the distinction between male and female spheres is legitimated are analyzed within three different relationships: between schools and the economy, schooling and work, and the family and school. (Author/GC)

Argues that schools hinder all students by not helping them to acquire knowledge and skills needed for building a more equitable society. Offers an egalitarian conceptual framework for multicultural education, suggests guiding principles for effectively translating this framework into curricula, and presents a policy agenda for action. (CMG)

New York City has for far too long tolerated a severe imbalance in the delivery of legal services in child welfare cases. Although the Administration for Children's Services (ACS), the Legal Aid Society and Lawyers for Children all are given a significant annual budget which allows these agencies to represent petitioners and children in Family…

This report describes how expanding Universal PreKindergarten (UPK) services in New York City's Community School District 11 (CSD 11) demonstrates how a community school district can work with early childhood programs in the community to integrate early childhood services and public education in the northeast Bronx. The report examines the roles…

Resilience is a universal capacity that allows a child to prevent, minimize, or overcome the damaging effects of adversity. The construct of resiliency, the combination of protective factors that result in resilience, was addressed by the International Resilience Project (IRP), which set out to explore what parents, caregivers, teachers or…

Schools need to be reoriented and restructured so that what is taught and learned, and the way in which it is taught and learned, are better integrated with young people's real-world experiences. Many indicators suggest that the meaningful aspects of school have been lost in the encounter with modern times. The title of this address--"Every…

This paper uses data from a project in South Carolina that provides services to children with severe emotional disturbance (SED) to examine the role of schools in integrated service delivery. This study examined organizations participating in a demonstration project sponsored by the federal Center for Mental Health Services and administered by a…

This book examines the challenges facing gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual youth, suggesting ways to bring about significant and positive differences in homes, schools, and communities. It presents the experiences of such children, in their own words, as they gradually discover they are different from most other children in their sexual…

A study qualitatively analyzed the recollections of nine women concerning their early language and literacy development as it related to the family, cultural, school, and community experiences and contexts. Subjects were enrolled in a graduate education seminar in language development, ranged in age from 24 to 48 years, and had diverse…