Journal of Elementary Science Education, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 13-24 (12 pages) Through a century-long process, there has been a resolute effort to shape science teaching in elementary ...

Compared to noneducators, teachers express less-negative racial stereotypes and report less social distance and resentments toward minority groups, a new paper finds —but some teachers do still have ...

A Sense of Calling: Who Teaches and Why, by Steve Farkas, Jean Johnson, and Tony Foleno, reports on attitudes about teaching as a profession among new teachers, superintendents and principals, and ...

Prior research suggests that attitudes may be one category of personal (student) variables that students bring to the task of evaluating college courses and their instructors. In a previous study, ...

The spirit of Thanksgiving easily can be overshadowed by the frenzy of the holiday. The food frenzy. Football frenzy. Family frenzy. And who could forget the Black Friday shopping frenzy? The “giving ...

Todd Postal’s commentary “Why Ph.D.'s Should Teach in High Schools” (The Chronicle, February 12) is a perfect illustration of why Ph.D.'s often are not “welcomed as colleagues” in elementary and ...