Examined the effectiveness of two teaching elements (the artistic crafting of content and the modeling and scaffolding of perception and value) at fostering transformative experiences among students in a high school zoology class. Student outcomes were compared to the outcomes of students in a class taught with a case-based method. Significantly…

Illustrates how life in post-September 11 America is both a rupture from certain anti-government politics that dominated before that day and a continuation of the pre-September 11 promotion of global capitalism and the abandonment of efforts to create greater equality. The paper attempts to help educators contemplate the role of public schools in…

Investigated what a narrative, dialogical research process could reveal about the lives of three bilingual high school students, noting how critical dialogues could connect bilingual students' lives with the curriculum and examining the role of teacher education in fostering dialogue. Results highlighted students' lack of critical engagement in…

To understand why women attain higher educational levels than men, this study used participant observation data from a predominantly Hispanic New York City public high school to investigate race(ing) and gender(ing) processes in the high school setting. Results found that both formal and informal institutional practices within schools "raced" and…

Reviews Ravitch's "Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms," suggesting that: the book is tedious, its documentation is limited, it neglects important reform movements, and it presents troubling accusations about an elitist attitude in public education which has historically been detrimental to the underprivileged. The review asserts that…

Notes that Prawat claimed that Dewey was indebted to Peirce, that Dewey never gave Peirce the credit he deserved, and that Dewey's acceptance of Peirce's ideas in 1915 represented a discontinuity in Dewey's thinking. This paper concludes that a comparison of two versions of Dewey's "How We Think" (1910 and 1933) does not provide the support Prawat…

Analyzes, phrase-by-phrase, a sentence extracted from a 1906 speech by John Dewey to an audience of art teachers in which he defined art. The sentence tacitly connects to a wide variety of Deweyan doctrines, particularly those having to do with Dewey's vision of human flourishing, and it offers an invitation to extend one's traditional conception…

Examines the historical development of after-school programs serving low-income children, including objectives and practices in each era, formative influences, implementation challenges, and role in children's lives. In the final section, the paper discusses the current pressures facing after-school programs and suggests and appropriate set of…

Considers the curriculum reform movement of the 1950s as an experiment in applying innovative research and development techniques perfected by scientists during World War II, tracing the development of newer methods of scientific analysis and examining how they were imported from military research to the field of education by a select group of…

Examined the best approach to the development of procedures for assessing beginning teachers, reviewing studies on teacher thinking, development, learning, and knowledge; examining studies on new approaches to teacher evaluation and on issues of validity and reliability; and proposing a framework with 15 implications for the development of…

Interviewed diverse beginning teachers in a variety of Massachusetts public schools regarding how they experienced curriculum and assessments in the face of standards-based reform. Respondents received little or no guidance about what to teach or how to teach it and struggled to prepare content and materials. The standards and accountability…

Examines data collected from 36 California schools over three years to investigate individual and schoolwide influences shaping teachers' relationships to particular school reform efforts (thereby leading teachers to mediate the reforms in individual ways). (Contains references.) (SM)

Employed a stakeholder framework to examine the changing salience levels of a state business group as it tried to shape educational policy during a 5-year period of intense state-level reform. Using case study methods, researchers address the relationship between the changing salience of the group and the dynamic environment of educational policy…

Surveyed early adolescents regarding the influence of race- and gender-matched role models. Students with race- and gender- matched role models at the beginning of the study performed better academically, had more achievement-oriented goals, enjoyed achievement-related activities more, thought more about their futures, and looked up to adults…

Examined school district change agents' theories about teacher learning and change. Although respondents discussed similar professional development forms and structures, their theories of teacher learning and change differed. Respondents identified three perspectives (behaviorist, situated, and cognitive). The behaviorist perspective on teacher…