This paper seeks to shed light on the role of school funding in individual school performance. A unique data set is utilized for the Metropolitan Nashville – Davidson County School District in Tennessee, known colloquially as Metro. In 2005 the Metro school board undertook the task of breaking down individual school spending levels by funding source. The resulting 2004-2005 financial data are c...

In the early part of 1935 I had the privilege of visiting various Local Education Authorities in England and Scotland to learn of the provision made for the special education of backward children. During the summer months I was helping to arrange three courses for teachers of retarded and defective children, and more recently I have been engaged in investigating in detail the problem presented ...

Ientered New York University College of Dentistry with a different perspective from most other dental students. Dentistry is a second career for me. I taught public school for six years before hearing the call of dentistry—four years in elementary education and two years teaching high school biology. Those six years of teaching experience “behind the lectern” combined with three years of learni...

As part of the National Study of Undergraduate Education in Science (NSEUS) which is investigating how active engagement in undergraduate science content courses taken by future teachers affects their teaching of science in elementary schools, we have examined the relationship between students’ learning of content knowledge and the degree that science courses utilize interactive (reformed) teac...

The premise of this study was to take a valid population sampling of handwriting and handprinting and assess how many times each of the predetermined characteristic is found in the samples. Approximately 1500 handwriting specimens were collected from across the United States and pared to obtain a representative sample of the U.S. adult population according to selected demographics based on age,...

Influenza poses a significant health threat to children, and schools may play a critical role in community outbreaks. Mathematical outbreak models require assumptions about contact rates and patterns among students, but the level of temporal granularity required to produce reliable results is unclear. We collected objective contact data from students aged 5-14 at an elementary school and middle...

In this paper we focus on the part of the compulsory mathematics education curriculum in Greece, which concerns the collection, analysis, organization and presentation of information, namely statistical data. Statistics can be used as an organization tool for class activities aimed at the understanding of statistics, and/or as a methodological frame for the organization of activities for other ...

The goal of this essay is a description of modern mathematical practice, with emphasis on differences between this and practices in the nineteenth century. I explain how and why these differences greatly increased the effectiveness of mathematical methods and enabled sweeping developments in the twentieth century. A particular concern is the significance for mathematics education: elementary ed...

Previous research has shown that many college students are prone to prejudice-related discrepancies (i.e. their responses to stereotyped group members are more prejudiced than their personal standards suggest is appropriate), and they feel guilty as a result. Although there are reasons to suspect that this prejudice with compunction may be observed only among college students, the present findi...

2 cognitive dispositions, inferential and analytic, and their relationship to impulsive school behavior were investigated. The relationship of the dispositions to the Fisher-Cleveland Barrier score was also tested. The Kagan Conceptual Styles Test (CST) and the Rorschach ink blots were administered to 46 extremely impulsive boys in special 4th-grade school classrooms. The CST was not able to di...