Tables of contents

Articles

Improving academic achievement, but at what cost?: the demands of diversity and equity at Birch Middle School

Angelina E. Castagno

1-9

Doing all the right things: teacher retention issues

Kathleen M. Brown & Stanley A. Schainker

10-17

Grades and graduation: an ethical dilemma

Michael J. Salmonowicz

18-25

Democracy and leadership: does every vote count?

Valeri R. Helterbran

26-32

Old school meets new school: unsettling times at Freedom Junior–Senior High

C.P. Gause

33-43

The intersection of aestheticism and administrative placement at Payton High

Carlos R. McCray, Floyd D. Beachum & Hayward R. Richardson

44-56

Mark Edwards: mission impossible in higher education?

Joseph C. Santora & James C. Sarros

57-65

(No) support for a new principal in an urban district: a case study

April L. Peters

66-72

A new principal for Tchikobou High School: resistance to change

Mohomodou Boncana & Gary M. Crow

73-80

County funding versus municipal aspiration: a case study

Eric A. Houck

81-86

'This is MY school, NOT YOURS': a novice assistant principal's attempt to lead

Carol F. Karpinski

87-96

Knowledge versus national security: the case of Androscoggin High School

Stephanie Paul Doscher

97-105

The athlete and the grade change

Tina I. Robinson & Tracy Skinner

106-110

Oh, we've got trouble! right here in Ravenna City: it starts with 'G' and has an 'S' and ends in 'A' (with apologies to Meredith Wilson)

Autumn Tooms & Catherine A. Lugg

111-128

Silence is not golden

Kema Geroux & Whitney H. Sherman

129-137

Articles

Forum

Wendy Sims

3-4

Measurement of instrumental and vocal undergraduate performance juries using a multidimensional assessment rubric

Charles R. Ciorba & Neal Y. Smith

5-15

Adolescent musicians' perceptions of conductors within musical context

Carol M. Hayward & Joyce Eastlund Gromko

26-36

The effect of conductor expressivity on ensemble performance evaluation

Steven J. Morrison, Harry E. Price, Carla G. Geiger & Rachel A. Cornacchio

37-49

The National High School Orchestra 1926–1938

Phillip M. Hash

50-72

Call for nominations

MENC Senior Researcher Award: 'to Recognize Significant Scholarly Achievement'

Journal of Research in Music Education 2009

73

Articles

The array representation and primary children’s understanding and reasoning in multiplication

Patrick Barmby, Tony Harries, Steve Higgins & Jennifer Suggate

217-241

Social constructivism and the Believing Game: a mathematics teacher’s practice and its implications

Shelly Sheats Harkness

243-258

Investigating imagination as a cognitive space for learning mathematics

Donna Kotsopoulos & Michelle Cordy

259-274

Teachers’ perspectives on 'authentic mathematics' and the two-column proof form

Michael Weiss, Patricio Herbst & Chialing Chen

275-293

Book Review

Mark Ronan (2006), Symmetry and the Monster, one of the greatest quests of mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press, 255 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-280723-6 £8.99 RRP

Gaywalee Yamskulna

295-298

Introduction

Virman Man

1

Multilingualism and education for democracy

Heidi Biseth

5

Democracy through learner-centered education: a Turkish perspective

Kaya Yilmaz

21

Media education across four Asian societies: issues and themes

Chi-Kim Cheung

39

The development of human capacity in Malawi: the role of science and technology

Dorothy Nampota, Jeff Thompson & Felicity Wikeley

59

Christine Fourner, Pierre Béret, Pierre Doray & Paul Bélanger

75

A study of burnout in international and country of origin teachers

Mary Ann Coulter & Paul C. Abney

105

Book Reviews:

IRE Office

123