A teacher-researcher describes how collaborative inquiries with students into literacy has the potential to develop metacognitive awareness of language and literacy practices, inform practice, and provide opportunities for students to use literacy in meaningful and authentic ways. Drawing upon a teacher-research study into the use of argument…

Using in-depth interview data, this study explored perceptions of opportunity, ethnic identity beliefs, and motivation orientations among Latino students at a selective university. One profile is characterized by individualistic achievement motivations, feelings of exemption from social barriers, and a sense of alienation from other Latinos.…

In this article, the author argues that teaching "technological literacy" at the expense of hands-on skills training is wrong for the students, wrong for the economy, and wrong for the nation. Students need not only the opportunity to explore a variety of trade skills but also the opportunity to learn a skill well. It is in the teaching…

This paper provides information about South Carolina's High School Assessment Program. The purpose of the test is to: (1) Demonstrate students' achievement based on selected South Carolina academic standards; (2) Provide data to state policymakers on student attainment of state education goals to inform educational policy decisions; and (3) Meet a…

On Saturday, March 13, the Obama administration released its blueprint for revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which would ask states to adopt college- and career-ready standards and reward schools for producing dramatic gains in student achievement. The proposal challenges the nation to embrace educational standards that…

The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a bold effort to create a network of charter schools designed to transform and improve the educational opportunities available to low/income families. KIPP schools seek to actively engage students and parents in the educational process, expand the time and effort students devote to their studies, reinforce…

Research shows that professional learning can have a powerful effect on teacher skills and knowledge, and on how well students learn. To be effective, however, professional learning for teachers needs to be conducted in the ways that it is in many high achieving countries--continuously, collaboratively, and with a focus on teaching specific…

This article examines the experiences of 20 students of color who voluntarily attend a racially integrated school. The study draws from the Socio-Cultural dimension of schooling as a framework to understand how the students of color fared on a social, cultural, and environmental level within a predominantly White school. Through a questionnaire,…

GUIDES TO AID ADMINISTRATORS IN THE SELECTION AND INSTALLATION OF ELECTRONIC CLASSROOMS ARE PRESENTED. ADVANTAGES OF AN ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM ARE THAT A VARIETY OF MATERIALS CAN BE USED, SPEECH PATTERNS CAN BE RECORDED FOR SUBSEQUENT EVALUATION, RECORDED LESSONS CAN BE USED AGAIN AND AGAIN, PROGRESS OF INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS CAN BE MONITORED WITHOUT…

This report presents the results of correlational and factorial analyses of items from the twelfth-grade student questionnaire of the Educational Opportunities Survey. The correlational analyses were conducted to document the inter-relationships among the items and to serve as a basis for the factor analyses. The factor analyses were conducted in…

The Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of the Organisation for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD) has as one of its priority activities the exploration for new strategies for equality of educational opportunity as part of the process of educational growth in the highly industrialized and technological societies of the OECD…

This speech contains information concerning the present and planned higher education facilities in the U.S. Army. The major point presented is that educational opportunity should be moved from a peripheral to a more integral part of a soldier's life by developing and instituting an educational system that provides each soldier with the opportunity…

Five general guidelines are presented for the development of alternative educational programs for those students alienated from the traditional educational process. (MJB)

Of all the handicrafts employed in the United States for educational purposes none has been more generally or more successfully used than basketry. Various materials suitable for basket making have found their way into the manual training classes. Even such exotics as reed and raffia have been freely used, but the growing tendency to employ native…