Seldom does a school day go by in most school buildings in the United States without at least one student reporting to either the principal’s office or the nurse’s office for treatment of a sudden illness or injury. The National Safety Council statistics indicate that 57% of the accidents involving children of school age which require the attention of a doctor or cause absence from school of on...

The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students. In this article we use valueadded methods to examine the relationship between a school’s effectiveness and the recruitment, assignment, development, and retention of its teachers. Our results reveal four key findings. First, we find that more effective school...

When U.S. children enter school, their reading skills vary widely by their socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and immigrant status. Because these literacy gaps exist before children enter school, observes Jane Waldfogel, the disparities must arise from conditions outside of schools--from the children's families and communities. And the same out-of-school factors may continue to influence...

This study informs community science, and seeks to narrow the research-to-practice gap, by examining how the interpersonal networks within a setting influence individuals' use of interventions. More specifically, it explores the role of two network mechanisms-cohesion and structural similarity-in urban elementary school teachers' use of interventions designed to improve academic and behavioral ...

Children growing up in low-income families face many challenges that children from more advantaged families do not.1 These children are more likely to experience multiple family transitions, move frequently, and change schools.2 The schools they attend are less well funded, and the neighborhoods they live in are more disadvantaged.3 The parents of these children have fewer resources to invest i...

In an article on the International Society for LogoP0edia which appeared in the Journal for Mental Welfare in 1928, I discussed, amongst other matters, the desirability of special schools for children suffering from defects of speech. Readers of this Journal may therefore be interested in an account of the Speech Schools at Hamburg, which I had an opportunity of visiting recen y. recapitulate: ...

Adapted from an address before The Council of Education of the State of New Jersey at Montclair, October 25, 1918, printed by the Council and reprinted here by its permission. The enforcement of compulsory education laws has laid a burden upon the public schools of the United States which involves many difficult problems. The public school system has been developed under a spirit of democracy w...

Abstract. The main aim of the empirical research, undertaken in 2004 – 2005, was to survey a subjective importance of the conception of mathematics and physics as seen by high school students with use of the Semantic differentiation method. This contribution presents some of the outcomes of that research. It enables us to think of the way some of the students perceive physics and mathematics no...