Assessment of teacher dispositions.
In the recent years, teacher quality has become a top priority of our national education policy. There is empirical evidence that suggests that teacher inputs have impact on student outcomes. It is also believed that teacher dispositions are as crucial for student achievement as a teacher's pedagogical and content...

Cognitive and personality factors in relation to timely completion of a college degree.
The timely completion of a higher education degree and the enhancement of academic performance are concerns of students as well as parents and college administrators. The current study assesses the impact of cognitive and affective factors as related to students completing undergraduate degree requirements as well as their cumulative...

The two world histories.
"Research & Practice," established early in 2001, features educational research that is directly relevant to the work of classroom teachers. Here, I invited Ross Dunn to examine the world history curriculum in U. S. schools in light of new developments in world history scholarship. --Walter C. Parker,...

The Science Ambassador Program: partnering scientists with science teachers.
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the development and implementation of the Science Ambassador (SA) Program, which targets adolescents by working directly with science teachers who write and implement lesson plans that feature public health topics. The main goals of the program are to develop science lesson plans...

Outdoor education in senior schooling: clarifying the body of knowledge.
Australia has a state-based educational system. In some of these states, outdoor education exists as part of the formal accredited secondary school curriculum. In this paper I analyse the content of these senior secondary school outdoor courses as a means to help delineate and describe the body of knowledge...

Educational alternatives for marginalised youth.
Abstract In the context of pressure to increase retention rates a wide variety of alternative educational programs has developed in Australia over the past few decades. The purpose of this paper is to provide a map of the alternative education landscape for marginalised youth in New South...

Sonia, Nitish beset with same crisis.
Byline: Abhay Singh PATNA: At least on one count, both UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi (along with PM Manmohan Singh and Union finance minister P Chidambaram) and CM Nitish Kumar, who leads the NDA government in Bihar, seem to be sailing on the same boat. They are beset...

No more sex education in Gujarat schools.
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has gone prudish again. The government has decided to back out of the 'adolescent education programme' of the Union ministry of human resources development, as it deemed the subject 'inappropriate'. A Gujarat government release stated that the study material and books on sex...

Letters to the editor.
To the Editor: The assumptions of Wayne, Bogo, and Raskin (2006) that infer that field education is broken are troublesome and misleading for two reasons. First, the problems of budget cuts and overworked staff that are identified as field education problems are problems that plague...

Govt in school furniture muddle.
HYDERABAD: "Thou shall buy furniture but only from Godrej & Boyce": That's the state government's commandment for government schools. But the directive has far from amused the small-scale industries' association. The outfit has moved the AP High Court, challenging the order on the ground that it promotes monopoly. ...