Education & Pedagogy

The urgent need for special-education teachers can be met through alternative certification. Full-time teachers benefit from the flexibility of such programs, which can be applied to teachers in other specialties. This paper explains the design of the California State University Intern Program (intern seminars, ongoing advisement, and on-the-job support) and discusses its implications for alternative certification. (SM)

Presents the experiences of one student teacher who was part of the restructured preservice program at Queen's University of Kingston. He participated in an early field experience, where he was assigned to a school rather than a teacher and was able to witness how an entire school prepared for the beginning of a new school year. (SM)

Demonstrates how a graduate-level Initial Teacher Education Program at one university and its 12 partner schools conducts teacher research to promote educational renewal, describing a required teacher inquiry course and its implications for the partner schools and the students and teachers involved. Other efforts related to the partnership and their impact on teacher research are described. (SM)

Examined the impact of early field experiences by surveying school of education graduates, half of whom completed a program requiring extra early field experiences. Respondents considered early field experiences significant and necessary. Different students held different expectations for their experiences, which impacted the experiences. Encounters and interpretations of field experience encounters varied. Both groups had similar performance evaluation scores. (SM)

Examined the experiences of two female African American preservice teachers in a predominantly white teacher education program. Data from ongoing interviews, observations, papers, projects, presentations, lesson plans, and class notes indicated that the students frequently encountered overt and "dysconscious racism." Their experiences underscored for them the need to address diversity and racial inequality in their own classrooms. (SM)

Discusses the service projects at Hoover Elementary School in Iowa City, Iowa that link economic education, service learning, and global education. Describes one project where the students involved the community in sending educational materials and financial aid to a school in Brazil. (CMK)

Refutes Mike Cole's article "Racism, Reconstructed Multiculturalism and Antiracist Education" by addressing five main topics: (1) the new racism as a means to changing multicultural education; (2) representation of antiracist educators; (3) advice to teachers of controversial aspects of other cultures; (4) identifying students' misconceptions before imparting new knowledge; and (5) nationalism. (CMK)

Highlights various Russian educational policies that were developed from the 1860s through the 1890s, such as the Statute of 1864, the Statute on Public Schools, and the focus on peasant schools in the 1880s. Maintains that the government viewed the schools as a means to shaping the masses to be loyal and God-fearing. (CMK)

Describes the Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico Rural Systemic Initiative (UCAN RSI), which aims to improve and integrate science, mathematics, and technology education for the primarily Native American and Hispanic students of the Four Corners region. Discusses UCAN RSI's focus on community engagement, cultural sensitivity and relevance, and local capacity building through work with six regionally self-defined coalitions. (SV)

Argues that in the post-Apartheid South Africa there is an opportunity to redress the inaccessibility of the majority to higher education, and to encourage lifelong learning, by greatly widening access and providing programs to develop broadly applicable abilities such as computer literacy. Contends that new educational approaches are also needed to promote active citizenship. Contains 18 references. (VWC)

Asserts that as developmental education is being attacked by cost-minded legislators, developmental educators must do a better job of advertising its benefits. Outlines the benefits of developmental education for both underprepared and prepared individuals, society, faculty, and administrators. Claims that developmental education enhances student retention, safeguards the quality of the core curriculum, and helps to attract students to the institution. (VWC)

Completes a discussion of a systems model of distance education (in articles since May 1999) focusing on the most complex level, international. Discussion includes transfer of technology from United States universities to developing nations, the free market, and the age of the global economy. Presents a list of "early indicators" of changes in involvement of higher education in the global arena. (AEF)

This study examined the content and characteristics of state departments of education position or policy statements on inclusion for 17 state education agencies. Analysis revealed that such policy/position statements usually address the meaning of the term "inclusion," the philosophy of inclusion, laws and court decisions pertaining to inclusion, and instructional, assessment, personnel, and placement issues. (DB)

Critiques a November 1999 "Kappan" article praising one charter school's special-education program, arguing that most Massachusetts for-profit charter schools receive funding for disabled students whom they refuse to serve. These schools have excluded, counseled out, mistreated, and withheld needed services from numerous students with complicated disabilities. (Contains 19 references.) (MLH)

The UK's National Learning Targets for Education and Training, embracing 11- to 21-year-olds, adults, and employers, promote a credentialist approach to economic and social development. This article shows how the steel industry measures up. Using qualifications-based targets as a proxy for adult workforce capability is misguided. (Contains 40 references.) (MLH)