Describes a ten-week high school visual arts program. Five incremental drawing assignments dealing with line quality, shapes, conversion from three-dimensional perception to two-, and perspective and distortion of shape are presented. (AM)

Describes a cooperative reading plan for secondary schools that involves the entire staff and student body in organizing an effective reading program. Student needs and interests are central to the plan. (WD)

Examines the University of Nebraska's experience in implementing a procedure for grade appeal hearings. Discusses the importance of the setting, the chairperson's role, faculty and student roles, committee member's bias, and interactions at the hearing. (CT)

Husbands of returning women students were interviewed to determine their attitudes and behaviors in response to their wives' new roles. The majority approved of the student role, but only one-fourth provided instrumental help in the home. Outcome anxiety was higher the longer the wife had been in school. (Author)

The role of self-advocacy in educational decision making is explored. A student's involvement in the individualized education program (IEP) development is considered. (CL)

Discussion of educational restructuring focuses on four areas of possible change, considers implications for teachers and teacher training, and examines why change efforts may fail. Topics include the teacher's role, the student's role, school structures and processes, and technology use. Contains 70 references. (LRW)

Explores student interaction with the educational system and shows why large numbers of students have incentives to undercut the intent of educational reforms. Describes the kind of educational structures and policies that create pathways to competent adulthood and have a chance of bringing about the reformers' goal of educational excellence. (SLD)

Adult learners juggle multiple roles while attending institutions of higher education. Adult students' roles and the implications for adults' success in college are discussed in this chapter. (Contains 13 references.) (Author)

Contends that without the reminders and reassurances in the masthead of a student publication, a staff opens itself to all kinds of difficulties. Explains that the following should be part of a masthead: a statement establishing the paper as a "public forum"; a statement distinguishing district employees from student editors; a letters policy; a…

Finds that students ask more interpretive predictive questions than literal or applied predictive questions. Finds that teachers ask more literal prequestions than interpretive or applied prequestions about the same expository selection. (RS)

Discusses specific points from and provides a critical review of "Lessons from the Learner," an ideas resource book for learning, coming from the learner, that is meant to help teachers empower students to produce and work with their own material/preparation. (GLR)

Expands the description of the teaching-learning process to a teaching-studying-learning process that emphasizes the active role of the student. Suggests that interaction is the central concept in this process and considers direct and indirect interaction. (SLD)

Proposes the metaphor of professional/client rather than student-as-customer to characterize the relationship between professors and students. Uses examples of fitness trainer, management consultant, accounting service, and mountain guide to illustrate faculty and student roles. (SK)