In this paper the author discusses some of the new approaches for securing student input into school governance. Some of these approaches are the principal's cabinet, the superintendent's cabinet, and the student school board. The author feels, however, that at the present time there are too many attendant obstacles in making students full-fledged…

Examines the role of the college student as an active decision-maker in instruction. Eight variables (pacing, reinforcers, contingencies, sequencing, mode, feedback, content and objectives, and discriminative control) are described and discussed in the context of student choice, and issues which student choice highlights are examined. (Editor/JT)

Two high school students from Brooklyn, New York, suggest ways for public schools to overcome student apathy by allowing students to take an active role in student government. (Author/RM)

This study investigated children's participation rights in two secondary and two primary schools in England, focusing on the child's right to express views freely in all matters affecting him or her, as indicated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Participating were students and staff at two primary and two…

Two Alabama programs use students to help alleviate the manpower shortage in rural health-care facilities (Author/KM)

Five principals and one vice-principal describe law-related education courses and student advisory councils in their schools and explain why they are valuable. (JM)

Asserts that student-role redefinition is a critical linchpin between adult educational reform behavior and student success. Failure to acknowledge the need for students to redefine themselves is a flaw in promoting understanding of reform and effective change initiatives. Students need to be deeply involved in the change process. (SLD)

Addresses questions about the nature of collaborative learning in middle schools and its effect on literacy learning. Offers practical suggestions for implementing a collaborative learning program, including designing reading activities, problem students, grading, time allotment, and gifted students. (JPB)

While recent arguments often propose that students should be engaged as writers in service to the larger community, the question remains how to engage students as intellectuals, writers, and creators of knowledge in an intellectual setting that mostly asks them to be passive learners. In Project Renaissance, leaving behind the familiar boundaries…

An ethnographic study of a linguistics classroom produced insights into student perceptions of in-class speech that can contribute to the ongoing debate about the place of student participation in academic classrooms. The study was conducted in an elective undergraduate linguistics course at Michigan Technological University. Fifteen classroom…

The focus of a study was to determine the role of continuing education students in the selection process for instructors. A 65.8 percent response rate from administrative heads at 38 Canadian universities was achieved on a mailed questionnaire. Study results indicated that continuing education students have little impact on the process of…

This study was designed to determine if (a) a developed interview procedure could be used to encourage students in both open and traditional schools to effectively state their educational goals and standards of performance in behavioral terms and (b) to determine if the goal statements obtained differed between the two school populations. Three…

The first section of this paper addresses the question of whether composition teachers should present heuristic models for students to assimilate or should attempt to elicit directly from students the tacit heuristics they already use. It suggests that creating heuristic models in the classroom has the advantage of teaching cooperative inquiry,…

Student unrest is caused by a lack of compatibility between the educational goals and objectives of students and the goals and objectives of educational institutions. Brief definitions of students and organizations are given. Students are categorized into three types: (1) "curricula-oriented" or interested only in obtaining a degree, (2)…