Reports on a study that describes selected aspects of student activism in urban high schools during the period 1967-71 and that presents some current information about those students who classified themselves as high school activists. (Author/IRT)

Among Arab students in Israel, alienation is more closely related to their perceptions than to objective measures. Arab students, teachers, and principals from 36 schools were interviewed. The following four factors were used to measure alienation: (1) powerlessness, (2) meaninglessness, (3) misfeasance, and (4) self-estrangement. (LHW)

Reports on an ethnographic study of five primary school principals that was conducted to show what principals actually do and to illuminate the ways in which they and their work are seen by themselves, some members of their staff, and some of their pupils. (Author/IRT)

This volume of transformed research utilizes an activist approach to examine the notion that nothing is apolitical. Research projects themselves are critically examined for power orientations, even as they are used to address curricular problems and educational or societal issues. Philosophical perspectives that have facilitated an understanding…

This paper attempts to provide some answers to two questions: What are the distinctive challenges of urban education (especially in London) and how can schools help to meet them? Using theoretical frameworks derived from the writings of two leading scholars of the urban, Manuel Castells and David Harvey, this paper argues that the challenges…

In Israel, there are statistical relationships between students' social orientations and the ability group to which they are assigned. However, the direction of effect between the two variables is as yet undetermined. (LHW)

With the advent of site-based management, principals must respond to growing pressures to provide students and staff with a safe teaching and learning environment. This paper examines junior-high school principals' understanding of violence. The paper focuses on the context of violence within the principals' schools, the factors that influenced…

A survey questionnaire on aspects of the job that contributed to burnout received responses from 128 school-based administrators and 635 teachers in a large Western Canadian urban school district. Subjects identified work conditions which contributed to feelings of overextension and exhaustion, to negative attitudes and impersonal responses, and…

Education in Brussels is provided by four sectors: the state, the province, the communes, and the Catholic or "free" (independent) schools. The thorniest problem faced by secondary education is the presence of the immigrant population. (MLW)

The second volume of the English-language The China Educational Development Yearbook offers international scholars a glimpse into key issues in Chinese education today from the perspective of Chinese academics, practitioners, and applied researchers. An edited translation of the 2009 volume of the Chinese-language "Blue Book of…

The dramatic change in parents' involvement in their children's primary education in England over the last 15 years is exemplified by the case of one inner-city Liverpool school's successful parent-school partnership program. Among other improvements, substantial gains in reading scores are attributed to parent assistance. (MJL)

A study examined primary children's learning in science in the areas of health and the environment through the use of drama activities. Parallel classes of children followed a similar half-term program of classroom science activities with their class teachers. The research took place in an urban school of approximately 300 pupils of mixed ability…

Describes programs of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL). Introduces three articles dealing with leadership in urban schools and those with challenging circumstances that emerged from work supported by NCSL. All three articles explore the concept of distributed leadership. (PKP)

Colombia has been ravaged for over 40-years by escalating civil conflict and more than half of its population of 42 million live below the poverty line. As a result, many children and young people are excluded from school and drop out rates of those who gain places are high. It is in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, where many displaced families…

"Children and Youth at Risk in Urban Education" (CAYAR), a network of the European Educational Research Association, has brought together pioneering researchers to address school exclusion, truancy, dropout and disaffection. Four books have been produced by the network since 1997: "Children and Youth at Risk and Urban…