Focus of Study: This article investigates how teachers' relationships with boys can be central in bolstering boys' resilience and connection to their work in schools. Specifically, we examine how teachers understand the ways that their relationships with boys shape their teaching practice as well as their understandings of boys' learning in…

Background/Context: In an era of high stakes accountability, public school districts struggle to improve teaching and learning for all students. As a result, effective professional development approaches for teachers are a high priority. Recently, teachers' learning communities (LCs) have been recommended because successful LCs foster teacher…

Purpose: This research explores the importance of extracurricular activities, specifically music performances of a high school music group in Jordan, for the education of adolescent girls about patriotism, the proper way to live their faith, and their role as young women in contemporary Jordan. Setting: Article is based on research in a high…

Education researchers and classroom teachers have argued that the constant pressure to measure and rank students makes it difficult to shape assessment as an episode of learning. Yet we know little about how learning moves in and through assessment of any kind. Building on two national multisited studies, the research reported here uses…

A child's "ecosystem" should be designed to involve families and schools, in the context of caring communities, to provide an optimum array of resources for the rearing of our children. (MM)

The cultural tradition of public service and "technocratic mindedness" have influenced and shaped the teacher's role. Interviews with teachers illustrate aspects of the nature of limits and role boundaries. Instances and meanings of contrary teacher actions are discussed. (DF)

This article discusses how parents and teachers view the importance of homework. Study findings indicate that family environment influences successful homework completion. Homework procedures of two families were observed. In the successful situation, the family linked homework with family life, while the other family arranged special time that…

Claims that over-reaction to the open school concept should result in converting schools to a boring and aimless wasteland'' unless precision, purposefulness, and efficiency'' are maintained. (DS)

Meaningful and educationally significant school reform will require attention to five dimensions of schooling: the intentional, structural, curricular, pedagogical, and evaluative. Eight factors make change in schools difficult, including teacher isolation, persistence of school norms, inadequate in-service education, and internalized teacher…

Explored gender differences in junior and senior high school students' perceptions of fairness. Surveys indicated that gender differences were pervasive. High school females, more frequently than males, reported feeling their school was fair in terms of personal experiences, and junior high school females, more frequently than males, reported…

Advances a notion of decent school buildings as necessary to quality education, considering a perspective that balances science with the art of designing, constructing, and renovating schools. The article illustrates the issue by examining one urban elementary school's renovations, additions, and history. It contends that educators should view the…

This article is about conflict in an educational workplace setting. It reports on a case study investigating the emergence, development, and management of conflict among diverse native English speakers working as language instructors within a Japanese university. The example of conflict presented, which deals with divergent assumptions about the…

Author considers the sex imbalance in the use of male and female teachers in public elementary schools and its effects upon school children. (RK)

This article seeks to identify the contemporary challenge of community and sketches a strategy schools might adopt in response. Discussion includes the value of bonding within a particular school, and activities that encourage bonding by students with the external community. (IAH)

Examines majaor constituent ideas of education (from Durkheim, Plato, Rousseau, Dewey), suggesting that they are mutually incompatible and consequently result in an incoherent concept of education. Proposes an educational scheme that would develop the kinds of understanding developed in cultural history, which would require focus on imaginative…