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 ...

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PURPOSE This prologue reiterates the case for the narrow view of reading as a solution to the persistently high levels of reading failure that occurs in our schools and provides a brief summary of the 5 response articles. METHOD The arguments that support the narrow view of reading are presented and the respondents are introduced. CONCLUSION Although the contributors to this clinical forum ...

This Essay argues that the justice system should establish a parallel system, using restorative justice, designed to “heal” those individuals affected by crime, but who are not the victim, i.e. the victim’s family. Additionally, the author proposes that law schools should help develop this

There have been quite a number of community studies in recent years, with surveys being conducted among the general population, in schools, and among the elderly. While all of these studies have greatly contributed to our understanding of suicidal behavior, because of different approaches toward methodology and definitions, they also have some limitations. These limitations spring mainly from t...

Teacher education is widely recognized as a key strategy that is yet to be effectively utilized to embed environmental education and/or education for sustainability in schools. This paper reports on a research study that examined a range of pre-service teacher education initiatives, both in Australia and internationally, that were seeking to reorient teacher education towards environmental sust...

Introduction Across the country, school districts rely on a combination of local, state, and federal funds to operate schools – with local and state funds making up over 90 percent of all public school funding.i State and federal funds are distributed to districts on the basis of funding formulas. State funding formulas have a significant impact on the amount of funding that districts receive b...