Describes limitations of the use of computers in the classroom at River Oaks School, an Apple Classroom of Tomorrow high school site, in Oakville, Ontario. (Contains 13 references.) (PKP)

Case study of how a third-grade teacher in California allocates time among academic subjects, assessment, and social services. Finds there is not enough time to meet state academic standards. (PKP)

Explores reasons why new teachers do not learn how to use educational technology in the classroom in their preservice teacher education courses. Finds lack of technology integration in methods courses, uniform syllabi, and top-down teaching. Suggests several remedies. (PKP)

Criticism of "A Nation at Risk," a report on the deteriorating state of American education published by the National Commission on Excellence in Education 20 years ago. Report stimulated state and federal educational reform efforts in the 1980s and 1990s. (Contains 13 references.) (PKP)

Discusses four strategies for preventing school violence based on analysis of over 150 research studies: Do not tolerate student-to-student harassment in the school and classroom, promote a culture of tolerance and acceptance, reach out to students who are a little different, and provide opportunities for students to get to know each other. (PKP)

Discusses issues related to Congress's reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Act in 2002. (PKP)

Criticizes report by Fraser Institute, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, on home schooling in Canada. Report advocates government funding of home schooling. (PKP)

Compares and analyzes the size of the "SAT elite," seniors who score 650 or higher on the verbal or mathematics section of the Scholastic Assessment Test, over 10-year period. Disputes published reports that "SAT elite" has shrunk. (PKP)

Presents several questions and answers about small high schools based on Public Agenda (a nonprofit research organization in New York City) survey of 920 public high school teachers and 801 parents of students enrolled in public high schools. Discusses community issues related to reducing school size. (PKP)

Presents five beliefs related to the small schools versus large schools debate: Differences matter more than similarities, a large building offers more opportunities, larger schools attract better teachers and administrators, small schools reflect provincial values, and what matters most is class size. Discusses two implications for advocates of…

Former member of the National Reading Panel criticizes the composition, deliberations, and decisions of the panel, authorized by Congress in 1997, leading to its April 2000 report supporting the hierarchy-of-skills reading model. (PKP)

Describes several reasons, based largely on dissatisfaction with New York City bureaucracy, why principal of International High School in Queens decided to accept invitation to become a charter school: Student selection challenges; need for school-based staffing; scheduling, financial, and purchasing rigidities; and state assessment requirements.…

Discusses status of effective-school movement, especially the work of the National Alliance for Effective Schools and those who developed the Effective Schools Process. Lists six correlates of effective schools. (PKP)

Describes and evaluates a 3-year, 6-district (2 urban, 2 suburban, and 2 rural) Effective Schools Process demonstration project in Ohio. (PKP)

Describes several elements of the Effective Schools Process and how they were implemented in the Oxnard School District in partnership with the California Center for Effective Schools at the University of California Santa Barbara. Reports on changes in teacher attitudes and perceptions a year and a half after implementation. (Contains 12…