An examination of peer-on-peer abuse (e.g., bullying, harassment) and peer-on-self abuse (e.g., suicide, self-mutilation) prevention programs identified more effective ways to involve youth in similar programs. Stronger programs emphasized youth empowerment through active roles in program development and reaching out with understanding and support…

Asserts that recent riots in British cities are indicators of the failure of Western community development to engage ethnic minority communities. Questions the effectiveness of efforts based on inadequate understanding of communities and cultures. Suggests that rioting may be a means of seeking decision-making voice among disempowered communities.…

School-based management is only one way to restructure decision making and planning to create a collaborative and collegial ambience. Schools should not forsake the strong possibilities for improvement through applying effective schools research in exchange for pursuing uncertain goals associated with recent teacher empowerment and self-governance…

Discusses what empowerment means to students at three academically elite and socially privileged colleges (Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Scripps College) who already feel at home both in the "academy" and in the privileged world. Argues that writing teachers in such academies should help students understand their…

Suggests that the notion of empowering students allows some teachers to resolve their uneasiness about power. Asserts that teachers' denial or renunciation of their power can lead them to deny or ignore students' dependency on them. Argues that confronting the power in empowering students must include confronting teachers' power and how they use…

Argues that, although Peter Elbow's and David Bartholomae's pedagogies attempt in different ways to authorize students to write, both rely on the experience and resistance to language as the primary means of empowerment. Suggests that Elbow and Bartholomae must continually defer authority, keeping it suspended between experience and its…

A new concept of post-literacy involves the ability to participate in decision making. Four Latin American programs, linked to four educational needs (fundamental, productivity, social service, and community organization), illustrate the concept by using methods and techniques to give people a degree of autonomy and by respecting the cultures and…

In the current educational reform movement, schools have become the new scapegoat for the American economy's increasing failure to compete in the world market. The Bush Administration needs to articulate a vision linking public education to democratic imperatives, rather than the marketplace's narrow demands. Education for empowerment should be a…

A study of three schools practicing shared governance indicates that supervision and teacher empowerment are compatible concepts. The keys to success are patience and administrators' philosophical commitment to shared decision-making. Includes three references. (MLH)

The effective leadership literature fails to present a clear understanding of the principal's relationship to the curriculum. Principals must understand the enacted curriculum process, not just the official curriculum, and work with teachers to negotiate curriculum meaning. Empowerment involves trust, open dialogue, a collaborative support system,…

Describes parent involvement in a prekindergarten program established in the 1960s. Notes benefits of parent involvement to the parents and the program. (PCB)

Describes an early intervention program in an economically depressed area of the Dominican Republic. The main goal of the program was to empower mothers to become facilitators of their preschool children's development. (PCB)

Supported by the Carnegie Foundation and other allies, teacher unions are now demanding that teachers take over the nation's schools and run them without management interference. Teachers need "enablement" more than empowerment, as seen in the case of Rochester, New York. (MLH)

Learn and Teach is a foreign-funded literacy project in South Africa that is intended to combine conscientization with literacy instruction. The approach includes vernacular as well as English instruction. A call is being made for a mass literacy campaign on a national scale to end the marginalization of the Black population. (SK)

Education is the only "business" in which the consumers (students) rather than the workers (teachers and administrators) do most of the work. For educational technology to fulfill its potential, we must change our views about work in schools. Technology must be used for the workers to improve connections and by the workers to enhance and extend…