Observes that while most school site management personnel are familiar with the multitude of visual representations of statistical data, via graphs and charts, the value of visual representations of geographical information remains largely unknown in educational management. Explains that geographical information systems (GIS), in addition to determining the exact geographical street address loc...

This study is designed to investigate the level of awareness of primary and secondary school teachers invited for a capacity building workshop on ICT of Nigeria‘s educational policy on ICT as well as its possible influence on the use of ICT for classroom teaching and learning. Two hundred volunteers (out of the 250 participants invited from all the Local Government Areas of the state) at an ICT...

The purpose of this sheet is to describe the general requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree for students admitted to the School of Educational Policy and Leadership prior to Summer 2005. Additional details regarding the PhD are available in the EPL PhD Handbook (INSERT NEW URL) and in the Graduate School Handbook at http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/Depo/PDF/Handbook/Handbook.pdf. All...

Educational policy on emotional intelligence appears to be based more on mass-media science journalism than on actual educational and psychological research. The first section of this article provides an overview of the research areas of emotional intelligence, social and emotional learning, and character education; it further examines how these areas became linked in the popular press. The sec...

The state educational system in Israel reflects the declared character of the state as a ‘Jewish state’, and, consequently, the deep inter-group divisions in society, including a large Palestinian Arab minority. This study demonstrates how Israeli educational policy and curriculum are designed to support the Jewish nation-building project. As such, they silence the Palestinian Arab narrative wh...

Dr. Weaver is Associate Director, Center for Educational Policy and Research; Dr. Haden is Associate Executive Director and Director, Center for Educational Policy and Research; and Dr. Valachovic is Executive Director—all at the American Dental Education Association. Direct correspondence to Dr. Richard Weaver, American Dental Education Association, 1400 K St., NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 2...

Created as an independent monitoring system for assessment in America, the National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy is located in the Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The National Board provides research-based test information for policy decision making, with special attention to groups historically underserved by the educational systems of our...

Dr. Okwuje is Director of Analysis, Center for Educational Policy and Research, American Dental Education Association; Dr. Anderson is Associate Executive Director and Director of ADEA Center for Educational Policy and Research; and Dr. Valachovic is Executive Director, American Dental Education Association. Direct correspondence and requests for reprints to Dr. Ifie Okwuje, American Dental Edu...

Dr. Weaver is Associate Director of the Center for Educational Policy and Research, Dr. Haden is Associate Executive Director and Director of the Center for Educational Policy and Research, and Dr. Valachovic is Executive Director, all at the American Dental Education Association. Direct correspondence and requests for reprints to Dr. Richard G. Weaver, American Dental Education Association, 16...

Current U.S. policy initiatives to improve the U.S. education system, including No Child Left Behind, test-based evaluation of teachers and the promotion of competition, are misguided because they either deny or set to the side a basic body of evidence documenting that students from disadvantaged households on average perform less well in school than those from more advantaged families. Because...