The Washington State Achiever (WSA) program was a large-scale educational intervention of scholarships, mentoring, and school redesign designed to encourage students from moderate and low income families to attend college in Washington State. Using a quasi-experimental design based on pre- and post-intervention surveys of high school seniors in program and non-program schools, we find a signifi...

This paper explores the central role played by schools in introducing students to a positive experience of justice and community. Issues in the current educational context that impact on the introduction of restorative practices into schools are discussed. A pilot project to assess the value of the process of Community Conferencing into schools within the State of Victoria, Australia is placed ...

In this article we present an overview of educational technology initiatives in Germany on the school and university level. After a general introduction to the German education system exemplary projects are outlined to show how Germany seeks to integrate computers and the Internet into its educational system. In 1995, more computers than cars have been sold in Germany for the first time in hist...

Since the 1990s an increasing number of primary schools in the Netherlands have switched to Developmental Education (DE). The total number is still modest: Of the 7,000 primary schools, approximately 5% have implemented DE. The majority of schools employ Program Oriented Education (POE). The basis of the curriculum and educational methods consists in the application of this approach. An increas...

Considerable effort has been expended over the past two decades to understand the causes of drug abuse and to identify effective prevention strategies. Much of this work has taken place in school settings, mainly because schools provide easy access to large numbers of individuals judged to be the primary target population for prevention efforts. They also provide a reasonably suitable environme...

The focus of this article are issues related to the assessment of the teacher, working in small schools. The author analyzes the educational activities ungraded school teacher, as one of the factors increasing the quality of teaching in a rural school. We have tried to consider other resources to successfully solve the problem of increasing the quality of education in rural schools. Teacher in ...

Aspects of both educational development and multi-cultural inter-relationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools both retard the development of multi-ethnic understanding and influence educational performance. In this paper, we employ data on their ethnic composition to portray the extent of segregation in English secondary sc...

The main problem of educational centers in a mega city like Tehran, capital of Iran, is that no enforced service areas exist to guide school selection or allow students to make the most convenient commutes to the nearest schools. Without the defined school service areas, parents seeking better and more reputable schools often have no choice but to send children to schools outside the local area...