COVID learning loss has sparked fierce debate among stakeholders in education. There are debates among concerned educators about ways to understand learning loss reports, methods to measure learning loss, and strategies to recover from learning loss. In this article, we unpack opposing perspectives on these three controversies with the goal of…

Community organizing for school reform is a growing national phenomenon, as young people, parents, neighborhood residents, and faith-based institutions struggle to improve the quality and equity of public schooling, particularly in urban school districts. Now a decade old, community organizing projects are influencing local public schools in…

This article contains unit plans for a mass media course for tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders. (RC)

The establishment and governance of teacher centers, their function and potential, is discussed from both positive and negative viewpoints. (JD)

Racially mixed programs designed to encourage good relationships between black and white students as well as expand their cultural lives are described. (JD)

While the principle of successive approximations (learning as a series of small steps) has its difficulties in application, it is an effective technique for improving teacher skills in observing student behavior and in changing that behavior. (MJB)

Four major theoretical approaches to increasing classroom work involvement (Behavior modification, understanding individual causal dynamics, influence interventions, and ecology of behavior) are examined. The ecology of behavior approach, felt to be the most potentially useful, examines factors in the classroom environment enabling high work…

Practical applications of educational theory on peer groups to classroom management are discussed. (MJB)

Possible bases for student influence over teachers are examined. Since teachers cannot avoid being influenced by students, it is important for them to consciously select the kinds of influence efforts to which they will respond. (MJB)

The teacher who is concerned to help students with basic skills and at the same time worried about quashing motivation through prescribed exercises and drills should offer students real choices among activities. (MJB)

A list of ten "Desirable Teaching Behaviors" has been developed to effectively guide the actions of parents and teachers alike in the home education of children. (MB)

This article offers specific methods that could be used for recruiting, training, and evaluating classroom volunteers in school volunteer programs. (MB)

The Home and School Institute operates to develop specific, easy, low cost, practical ways to share educational accountability between home and school, and to develop ways in which schools can enhance school-community interaction. (MB)

The article examines (1) the notion of teacher as developmental educator; (2) the classroom conditions prerequisite to stimulating moral development; (3) the role of teacher as moral educator; and (4) implications for pedagogy suggested by initial research on teaching within a cognitive developmental framework. (MJB)