Tables of contents

Occupational choice, socio-economic status and educational attainment: A study of the occupational choices and destinations of young people in the British Household Panel Survey

Paul Croll

243

The social context of school bullying: Evidence from a survey of children in South Wales

Paul Lambert; Jonathan Scourfield; Nina Smalley; Raya Jones

269

VAK or VAK-uous? Towards the trivialisation of learning and the death of scholarship

John G. Sharp; Rob Bowker; Jenny Byrne

293

Closing the chasm: Reconciling contemporary understandings of learning with the need to formally assess and accredit learners through the assessment of performance

Debbie Watson; Jonathan Robbins

315

What makes AS marking reliable? An experiment with some stages from the standardisation process

Jackie Greatorex; John F. Bell

333

Investigating a judgemental rank-ordering method for maintaining standards in UK examinations

Beth Black; Tom Bramley

357

Book Review

Ruth Leitch

375

Recruiting a Diverse Group of Middle School Girls Into the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls

John P. Elder, LaVerne Shuler, Stacey G. Moe, Mira Grieser, Charlotte Pratt, Sandra Cameron, Melanie Hingle, Julie L. Pickrel, Brit I. Saksvig, Kenneth Schachter, Susan Greer, Elizabeth K. Guth Bothwell

523

Medicaid's Role in Financing Health Care for Children With Behavioral Health Care Needs in the Special Education System: Implications of the Deficit Reduction Act

David S. Mandell, Aliza Machefsky, David Rubin, Chris Feudtner, Susmita Pita, Sara Rosenbaum

532

Schools and Neighborhoods: Organizational and Environmental Factors Associated With Crime in Secondary Schools

Mary Ann P. Limbos, Carri Casteel

539

High School Youth and Suicide Risk: Exploring Protection Afforded Through Physical Activity and Sport Participation

Lindsay A. Taliaferro, Barbara A. Rienzo, M. David Miller, R. Morgan Pigg Jr., Virginia J. Dodd

545

Violence and Drug Use in Rural Teens: National Prevalence Estimates From the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Andrew O. Johnson, Michael D. Mink, Nusrat Harun, Charity G. Moore, Amy B. Martin, Kevin J. Bennett

554

A National Snapshot of Local School Wellness Policies

Alicia Moag-Stahlberg, Nora Howley, Lorry Luscri

562

Editorial

Peter Cunningham

295

Obituary. 'The man o' independent mind': Donald McIntyre 1937-2007

Sally Brown

299

Just picking it up? Young children learning with technology at home

Lydia Plowman, Joanna McPake, Christine Stephen

303

'If there's a dead rat, don't leave it'. Young children's understanding of their citizenship rights and responsibilities

Katherine Covell, Brian R. Howe, Justin K. McNeil

321

Exploring students' learning challenges in environmental education

Mark Rickinson, Cecilia Lundholm

341

Resolving the paradoxes of creativity: An extended phase model

Arthur Cropley; David Cropley

355

Considering 'best practice': The social construction of teacher activity and pupil learning as performance

Paul Adams

375

Evidence and education policy: Some reflections and allegations

Harvey Goldstein

393

Race relations legislation, ethnicity and disproportionality in school exclusions in England

Carl Parsons

401

Who is missing from higher education?

Stephen Gorard

421

Book Reviews

439

Editorial Note

Nick Foskett and Jacky Lumby

1

Quality Evidence on School Leadership for Australian Schools?

Bill Mulford

3

Leading Queensland Schools: What Some of the Research Can Tell Us

Neil Cranston

7

Reflections on Twelve Years of Studying the Leadership of Victorian Schools

David Gurr and Lawrie Drysdale

22

Reflections and Organisational and Student Learning in Tasmanian Schools

Bill Mulford

38

Understanding School Decline

Daniel L. Duke

46

High Attainment Schools in Disadvantaged Settings: An Interpretation of Significant Characteristics from a System Psychodynamics Perspective

Chris James, Michael Connolly, Gerald Dunning and Tony Elliott

66

The Influence of Administrative Strategies on the Effective Management of Human Resources in Secondary Schools in Ondo State, Nigeria

Tunji Olusola Adeyemi

80