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...

The important role that school leadership can play in creating effective schools is well documented. TALIS illustrates the roles and functions that school leaders adopt within schools – often facing quite different circumstances – and examines how these roles support teachers in their work. Retaining and developing effective teachers is a priority in all school systems and TALIS examines how te...

Latino children in elementary and middle school not only experience developmental changes and confront the risks and adventures held by neighborhoods, they must also juggle the values and expectations of two cultures as they navigate their own pathways toward success. Integrating the results of a series of studies focused on the children of Mexican-American immigrants in California, this articl...

This paper is a report on certain aspects of a wide investigation into the physique and growth of schoolchildren undertaken from 1945 to 1952, with special reference to age, sex, and social differentia. The particular purpose of this part of the study was to compare the physique of groups of boys and girls from three different types of school representing different socio-economic levels; Group ...