Advancing research on the community college.
Arthur M. Cohen and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Community Colleges have made significant and broad contributions to the scholarly literature and empirical research about community colleges. Although Cohen's interests are comprehensive and his writings touch on multiple issues associated with community colleges, his empirical...

IASIL bibliography for 2006.
General Studies A. LITERATURE ALCOBIA-MURPHY, Shane, Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry, Liverpool UP (Liverpool), 272. ALONSO GIRALDEZ, Jose Miguel, 'Contemporary Irish Poetry: Actual Territories and Territories of the Mind', in The Grove, 12 (2005), pp. 27-36. AMADOR-MORENO, Carolina...

Beach blanket buddies.
Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-Sex Desire in Film and Television Jeffery P. Dennis Harrington Park Press. 221 pages, $34.95 (paper, $16.95) IF THIS BOOK is any evidence, Jeffery Dennis one of those people who can pepper conversations with references to Fabian,...

Vern L. Bullough, PhD, DSci, RN.
Vern Bullough was a sexologist, by which he meant, in his own words, "it is not enough to be a physician or a psychologist or a historian. To be effective and knowledgeable in the sex field, one has to be a sexologist as well. That is, we have to...

Books on early American history and culture, 1961-1970; an annotated bibliography.
9780313314322 Books on early American history and culture, 1961-1970; an annotated bibliography. Irwin, Raymond D. Praeger 2007 324 pages $89.95 Hardcover Bibliographies and indexes in American history E188 Irwin...

Formative classroom assessment; theory into practice.
9780807747995 Formative classroom assessment; theory into practice. Ed. by James H. McMillan. Teachers College Press 2007 162 pages $24.95 Paperback LB3051 With one eye firmly on issues related to high-stakes testing...

Profiling of the public-service elite: a demographic and career trajectory survey of deputy and assistant deputy ministers in Canada.
Inspiring this study is an attempt to construct an image of the individuals who comprise the Canadian deputy / assistant deputy cadre--a unit we have called the "public-service elite" (PSE) in this article--in order to gain a better sense of who they are. To date, surveys of the most...

Reframing quality and impact: the place of theory in education research.
Abstract In March 2004, Stephen Ball and others presented a symposium at the conference of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) on the necessity of theory in educational research. Like Ball, I have observed that theory, not just social theory, is a difficult space and one that...

Teaching life writing texts.
9780873528207 Teaching life writing texts. Ed. by Miriam Fuchs and Craig Howes. Modern Language Association 2007 400 pages $22.00 Paperback Options for teaching; 21 PE1404 Life writing, as an...

Bridging the abyss.
Abstract This paper seeks to explain the epistemological bases for the two cultures and to show why this disciplinary divide continues to plague American academic culture. Next, we discuss strategies for bridging the two cultures through general education curricula which promote mutual understanding of the two cultures...