Many education reporters are drawn to the beat because of its complexity and rich variety. Few topics provide such a wealth of political, business, human interest, breaking news, feature, and investigative stories. A reporter's day can start in a classroom with 4-year-olds struggling to learn to read, and end at a school board meeting with…

Teaching English became a professional and academic field from a half century ago. Many researches for teacher education and teacher training have been conducted in order to raise the English as well as the foreign language trainers' knowledge and capabilities in carrying out effective lessons in classroom. During second millennium of speedily…

This handbook is designed as a quick reference for first-year teachers who find themselves in an assessment driven environment with little experience to help make sense of the language, underlying philosophy, or organizational structure of the assessment system. The handbook begins with advice on developing and evaluating effective learning…

Decentralization of authority is a natural act in universities, but decentralization of responsibility is not. A problem faced by universities is the decoupling of academic authority from financial responsibility. The solution proposed in this book for the coupling is Responsibility Center Management (RCM), also called Revenue Responsibility…

To help college students understand psychology, the article suggests that instructors develop curriculum based on the relationship between scientific and technological advances and the development of early psychology. Views of many nineteenth century psychologists are summarized, including Johann Friedrich Herbart, Hermann Lotze, and Georg…

A history is given of the internal strife that has characterized academic philosophy during this century. Some ideas that might help philosophers of education to use philosophical speculation as a justifiable and profitable philosophic activity are presented. (JN)

Claims the view that the teaching of composition stagnated during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century is too narrow. Discusses the approach taken by Professor Baird and his English 1-2 staff as being innovative, intellectually challenging, and historically significant. (NH)

Outlines the history of black schools funded by the Rosenwald Fund. The fund was originally established in 1912 at the Tuskegee Institute for Dr. Booker T. Washington to build offshoot schools of Tuskegee. By 1932 it was partially responsible for funding 5,358 modern rural black schools in 15 southern states. (MD)

Outlines the history of corporal punishment in American schools and the development of the debate on its application in the schools. Reviews court decisions since the 1970s that affect the controversy. Includes a list of references. (MD)

This issue of the Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society provides a cumulative index from Volume 1, No. 1 (1972) through Volume 25, No. 1 (1998). Also included are the history of the Midwest History of Education Society, starting with its founding in 1966 (in Editor's Foreword); Officers of the Midwest History of Education Society…

Examines some of the issues related to evaluating and selecting picture books, informational books, and multicultural literature. Discusses historical trends in each of the three genres from before the 1950s through the 1990s. (RS)

Focuses on the history, nature, and accomplishments of the CEE (Conference on English Education) Commissions within the National Council of Teachers of English. Gives a sense of where the Commissions are headed in the new millennium. (SC)

The paper reviews the history in the United States of spelling instruction, noting the multisensory approach advocated in Colonial times, the advent of the whole-word method in the 1840's, and more recent controversies, such as the one engendered by the generalization approach. Factors involved in spelling disabilities are cited. Analysis of…

Provides and defends four guidelines as a foundation to study ways to incorporate history into classroom lessons: maintain a continued research interest in teaching history; limit to technical rather than scientific discourse; focus on English-language texts; and focus on American texts, authors, and practices. Works within the guidelines to show…

Geography was virtually absent from the secondary school curriculum from the mid-1950s well into the 1980s--despite America's rediscovery of the earth in the 1970s. The 1984 instructional "Guidelines for Geographic Education" stress five interrelated themes (location, place, relationships within places, movement, and regions), forming a sound…