Compares private and public schools to illustrate that significant variations in educational environments exist and that they are correlated to academic achievement. (AEA)

Challenges the assumption that high level, educational research is appropriate in developing countries. Using Zaire as an example, the author argues that international funding agencies' institutional needs tend to make them set up western-style research organizations which are incompatible with the needs of the recipient country. (AM)

Examines, within the U.S. and selected regions, nine basic characteristics of social systems that are frequently mentioned as causes of differences in library development. A comparative procedure was used to identify those variables with universal explanations. Results indicate the most critical variable was level of formal education. Twenty-eight…

Stages in the development of philosophy of education leading up to the current analytic philosophy are outlined and the problems inherent in each are discussed. Three analyses that have influenced contemporary educational philosophy and decision making are presented to demonstrate the contributions of analysis of educational theory. (JMF)

Longitudinal data gathered on 24 children at 51 months of age and at earlier ages suggest that children currently characterized as faster habituators, in terms of first fixation data, may be somewhat advanced cognitively compared to slower habituators. (Author/DB)

Despite some regional differences, school board members strongly approve of vocational education and take issue with critics who doubt the value of these programs for high school students. (Author/IRT)

Between 1983 and 1990, the United States experienced one of its longest periods of economic expansion since the Second World War. The 1983-95 period has been a time of fundamental economic change, with wide variations by state and region caused by industrial restructuring, worker migration, and immigration. (JOW)

Argues that students offer English departments a way of bypassing the tangle of theoretical disagreements and of gluing the fragmented pieces of the discipline back together again. Proposes that agreeing about principles of pedagogy is more urgent than agreeing about literary theory. Argues that English departments need to at least agree about…

Offers advice on dealing with parenting differences between divorced spouses. Provides three scenarios to support discussion of the importance of avoiding blame, letting go, and respecting alternate choices; anticipating the need for readjustment when children go from one home to the other; making a home for the child at both places; and…

Using case studies, explores the substantial variation in faculty work within one institutional type--research universities. Examines the implications of this variation for state policies designed to improve teaching and learning, and for institutional policies meant to achieve a better balance between teaching, research, and service. (EV)

Revisits the author's efforts to deliberately craft words that surfaced in conversations with others. Reflects on the writing of "What Difference Does Difference Make," which won the author the Emig Award. Emphasizes two qualities of pedagogical storytelling that are critically important when that talk is about "difference."…

Compares Frame Relay with digital and analog alternatives for connecting sites on a Wide Area Network. Cost considerations, the concepts on which the technology is based, its carrying capacity, the use of CD-ROM and Graphical User Interface (GUI) on Frame Relay, and engineering bandwidth limitations are covered. (KRN)

The decision styles of 370 academic library directors were studied using the Decision Style Inventory. Results indicated that most directors have an idea rather than an action orientation and that most are left-brain dominant. Preferred decision styles among directors at doctoral, comprehensive, baccalaureate, and two-year institutions differed…

Discusses the lack of uniformity in U.S. universities' evaluations of foreign students' credentials for admission and determination of whether to transfer a student's credits from a foreign university. Includes a list of independent credential evaluation firms. (EV)

Describes the two very different support and training models employed by the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary in successfully confronting information technology challenges. (EV)