The Clearing House, a peer-reviewed journal, publishes material of interest to middle level and high school teachers and administrators, as well as postsecondary education faculty members and their students. The journal contains articles reporting on useful practices, research findings, and experiments. We also publish a limited number of first-person accounts and opinion pieces on controversial issues.

Consideration is given to articles dealing with educational trends and philosophy; preservice and inservice education; effective schools; curriculum; learning styles; discipline; guidance and counseling; community involvement; education of students with disabilities; teaching and learning climate; gifted and talented programs; international education; instructional leadership; instructional techniques; teaching with computers; testing and measurement; and school law.

We prefer manuscripts that do not exceed 3,500 words. We also accept short pieces of roughly 600 words.

The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., University of Chicago Press 2003, should be used as a style reference in preparing contributions that require documentation. (For example, a book reference would be in this format: Slavin, R. E. 1990. Cooperative learning: Theory, research, and practice. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. A journal article would be listed this way: Kapland, J. L., and E. D. Luck. 1977. The dropout phenomenon as a social problem. Educational Forum 47 (5): 41–56.)

Avoid explanatory notes whenever possible by incorporating their content in the text. For essential notes, identify them with consecutive superscripts and list them in a separate section titled NOTES at the end of the text.

References should be listed alphabetically according to the author’s last name at the end of the manuscript. In the text, reference citations should be in parentheses: (author, date) or (date).

We reserve the right to edit for content, grammar, and style.

Submit manuscripts to:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tch