Traditional tales

Rachel Theilheimer teaches early childhood education at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City. Josh R. Allen is a fifth-grader at Dows Lane Elementary School in Irvington, NY, where Rena I. R. Allen is in first grade.     

Sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviour among pupils in special schools

In this article, Rachel Fyson of the Centre for Social Work in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham reports the findings of a study into sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviour occurring between pupils in special schools in four local authorities in England. The behaviours identified ranged from relatively minor misconduct, such as exposure of genitals and use of sexualised language, through to serious acts of sexual abuse, including rape. Although the majority (88%) of special schools had noted sexualised behaviours of some kind on a regular basis, only a minority (19%) had specific policies in place to guide staff responses to such incidents. It was apparent that responses to sexual behaviour, and policy decisions about whether or when to refer to outside agencies, varied widely both within and between schools. The implications of these findings for the well-being of all pupils are discussed.     

爱在生命之缘

I met Rachel at a party and we fell right into a close connection. At the end of the evening, while discussing possible New Year' s Eve plans, Rachel confessed she may not be up to going out. She explained, "For the past 2 years, I've been having fun with     

Regulating private support for public goods: de-clubbing public schools

ABSTRACT

Urban schools in many OECD countries are contending with policy trends that squeeze budgets and incentivize parent fundraising. The trend may be most pronounced and longstanding in the US, where parent groups and local education foundations have turned increasing attention to raising funds to support additional services, staff, or programs for schools to which admittance is primarily based on residence. This article argues that private fundraising for public schools contributes to the creation of what public economics, public choice, and urban planning theorists have described as ‘clubs’ that may exacerbate inequality. It examines two school districts that have adopted policies aiming to curb this potential inequity: the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District in California and Portland School District in Oregon. A case study approach was used to detail the policies adopted and explore their potential for de-clubbing as well as resistance encountered to reallocation of dollars at the district level.     

Family feelings

Rachel Theilheimer teaches early childhood education at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City.     

望月

＂Look at the moon,＂ Rachel exclaimed excitedly, pointing like a little girl.     

Animals

Rachel Theilheimer teaches early childhood education at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City.     

Social issues

Rachel Theilheimer teaches early childhood education at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City. Emma C. Winger has just completed fifth grade at P.S. 84 in Manhattan.     

Getting Them There,Keeping Them There: Benefits of an Extended School Day Program for High School Students

Over a decade of research has demonstrated the positive effects of extended school day programs on various elementary and middle school student outcomes, both in the short and long term. The efficacy of extended school day programs in promoting academic outcomes among high school students is less well understood. This study contributes to the existing literature by examining school attendance, credit attainment, and standardized reading and math scores in a group of students at risk of academic failure who participated in extended school day programming. The study compared their outcomes to those of a group of demographically similar students who did not participate in the program. The extended school day program is provided within a full-service Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) Community School (CS) in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Results suggest an advantage for SUN students in terms of better school attendance and earning credits toward graduation, but not in terms of standardized test scores. Implications for future research and extended school day policy are discussed.     

Preparing for Collaborative Working

It is generally acknowledged that interdisciplinary collaboration is essential in the management of children with special educational needs. Ways in which professionals may be prepared for this responsibility have not received much consideration. This article is the first in the Supplement to report a project at the undergraduate stage, for two professions: teachers and speech therapists. Dr Beryl Smith, an educational psychologist, teaches at Westhill College; Dr Rachel David, a speech therapist, teaches on the speech therapy course at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic.     

从表现到介入:生态文学创始人卡森的启示

世界生态文学创始人雷切尔·卡森的创作有一个发展进程:前期主要是表现自然的美和神奇,并传达出一些生态思想;后期则积极介入社会,抨击环境污染,呼吁生态保护,宣传生态理念.这种由"表现"自然到"介入"社会的转变,后来被许多生态文学家所效仿.它的启示意义是:生态文学和生态批评存在的主要价值是应对生态危机,是批判反生态的思想文化和生存发展方式,是介入生态危机和生态保护现实,唤起民众的生态意识,推动生态文明建设.     

A Room of Our Own: Rodinsky,Street Haunting and the Creative Mind

Drawing on Virginia Woolf's 'Street Haunting', Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair's Rodinsky's Room and on autobiography, this essay explores place, memory and artistic vision. Just as a room of her own provided Woolf with the solitude necessary to write, rambling through the streets of London fed her imagination. In Rodinsky's Room , Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair explore both these creative spaces. Their book gives testimony to the creative mind and to the role that memory, history and place play in creating story, mythology and identity. The author also discusses her personal and family history in relation to place.     

Including the excluded: an art in itself

Rachel Tranter and Nathalie Palin are involved with programmes created in partnership with a range of education providers, particularly Pupil Referral Services in West London. Here they discuss their work at the Orleans House Gallery, providing insights into the scope and potential of the arts and inclusion. In this article they raise issues for sustaining and developing the work for the benefit of participants and partner organisations alike.     

Hydration process in Portland cement blended with activated coal gangue

This paper deals with the hydration of a blend of Portland cement and activated coal gangue in order to determine the relationship between the degree of hydration and compressive strength development. The hydration process was investigated by various means: isothermal calorimetry, thermal analysis, non-evaporable water measurement, and X-ray diffraction analysis. The results show that the activated coal gangue is a pozzolanic material that contributes to the hydration of the cement blend. The pozzolanic reaction occurs over a period of between 7 and 90 d, consuming portlandite and forming both crystal hydrates and ill-crystallized calcium silicate hydrates. These hydrates are similar to those found in pure Portland cement. The results show that if activated coal gangue is substituted for cement at up to 30% (w/w), it does not significantly affect the final compressive strength of the blend. A long-term compressive strength improvement can in fact be achieved by using activated coal gangue as a supplementary cementing material. The relationship between compressive strength and degree of hydration for both pure Portland cement and blended cement can be described with the same equation. However, the parameters are different since blended cement produces fewer calcium silicate hydrates than pure Portland cement at the same degree of hydration.     

Rachel’s literacy stories: unpacking one preservice teacher’s moral perspectives on literacy teaching

While teacher educators agree that teaching is a profoundly moral activity, little attention has been placed on the moral perspectives about teaching and learning of those entering the teaching workforce. As a way of illustrating the importance of helping both future teachers become aware of their own moral compasses and teacher educators to understand ways in which such knowledge can support their students, I use methods of qualitative inquiry to explore the life history of one European American preservice elementary teacher in the USA. In recounting the events of her life, Rachel Rosenberg demonstrates how she uses her own life experiences to frame the moral aspects of her future role as a teacher and especially her perspectives on literacy teaching and learning. The methods used here to elicit and analyse Rachel’s story can be useful to teacher educators who want to understand how the moral perspectives embedded in teachers’ stories influence the ways in which teachers approach and enact the work of teaching.     

Rachel's schemes for constructing fraction knowledge

This article focuses on the behaviour of nine year old Rachel as she constructed knowledge about fractions over a five month period. In particular, it is concerned to explain behavioural regularities for which certain mental processes, called schemes, are deemed responsible. Particular patterns of behaviour are accounted for by different kinds of scheme. Schemes that Rachel used to solve fractional number problems will first be distinguished. The roles played by Rachel's schemes are examined in the dynamic setting of a teaching experiment. An analysis of interactions between certain schemes is provided in the context of Rachel's efforts to learn about fifths.     

论蕾切尔·卡逊的生态散文《寂静的春天》

分析了蕾切尔·卡逊的生态散文《寂静的春天》表现的生态思想,认为蕾切尔·卡逊在作品中指出滥用化学农药是引发严重生态危机的主要原因,表达了其人与自然和谐共存的生态理想.《寂静的春天》是科学话语与散文话语跨学科结合的产物,对中外生态文学创作具有深远的影响.     

Jonah’s Birth

Rachel Goldstein shares her experience of exploring options related to care provider and place of birth early in her pregnancy. Goldstein and her husband, Marc, after reading and research, chose midwifery care and a home birth. She shares the story of a long labor at home supported by her husband, her doula, and her midwife. Her positive attitude, her ability to use various comfort strategies, and the support she received throughout labor contributed to being able to give birth naturally and ecstatically to her son Jonah.     

他乡生活：俄勒冈州

一篇对去过国外或在国外居住过的人的专访。本月我们将与迈克聊聊他在俄勒冈州的波特兰所度过的时光。迈克。为什么你会去俄勒冈州的波特兰？是这样的,我那时在巴黎的索邦大学学习英语语言课程,需要去国外学习一年。     

三乙醇胺对硅酸盐水泥性能的影响

分析三乙醇胺在不同掺入形式和不同掺量时对硅酸盐水泥的助磨效果及其它性能的影响，并对三乙醇胺的助磨机理进行了探讨。从实验结果看，三乙醇胺掺入量为０．０５％，掺入浓度为４０％时具有最好效果；在相同实验条件下水泥细度（０．０８ｍｍ筛筛余）由１０．７６％下降到１．８９％，比表面积由３４８．７ｍ~２／ｋｇ增加到４１２．１ｍ~２／ｋｇ，而水泥的２８ｄ强度则由４８．７ＭＰａ提高至５６．２ＭＰａ。实验结果还表明，当三乙醇胺浓度低于４０％时，水泥细度虽然显著下降，但水泥的比表面积反而降低，同时水泥出现急凝，这在其它文献中从未报道。