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...

My experience related in this article is based on work in a county where there are schools of all sizes. It is agreed that educational backwardness should be tackled in the Junior school; the question is how this can be done in a county area. In the town where there are Junior and Infant schools of 200 or 300 children it is possible to run backward classes of 20-25 children in each Junior depar...

The APA Division 16 Working Group on Translating Science to Practice contends that implementation science is essential to the process of translating evidence-based interventions (EBIs) into the unique context of the schools, and that increasing attention to implementation will lead to the improvement of school psychological services and school learning environments. Key elements of implementati...

Teacher professional learning communities provide environments in which teachers engage in regular research and collaboration. They have been found effective as a means for connecting professional learning to the day-to-day realities faced by teachers in the classroom. In this paper, we draw on survey data collected in primary schools serving 71 villages in rural Gansu Province, as well as tran...

The views of several well known crystallographers on how to teach the subject are presented with a description of teaching texts and schools available on a world-wide scale.

Since South Africa's first national democratic elections in 1994, the Government of National Unity has issued several curriculum-related reforms intended to democratise education and eliminate inequalities in the post-apartheid education system. The most comprehensive of these reforms has been labelled outcomes-based education (OBE), an approach to education which underpins the new Curriculum 2...

In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter school. Parenting ma...