Presents a critical response to Bloom's thesis that all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning. Unexamined assumptions regarding individual similarities are questioned. Logic supporting the thesis, practicality of the thesis, and unpursued implications are examined. (Author/DB)

Reports on a study comparing the attrition-retention rates of White and Black college students during the years 1973-1976. Results indicated that attrition-retention was not statistically tied to race, sex, or race by sex; however, attrition rates were consistently lower for Blacks than for Whites. (Author/MK)

Institutional sources of all articles published in the three major marriage and family therapy journals through 1978 are identified. The journals reviewed include "Family Process,""Journal of Marital and Family Therapy," and the "American Journal of Family Therapy." A few institutions have exerted a profound impact on the literature. (Author)

Explores the four major reasons private institutions of higher learning are fundamentally not the same as public institutions: governance, legal distinctions, size, and revenue base (EV)

Examined potential differences in how Australian mature entrants and those who have just left school undertake the decision to attend a new university. Found differences between the two groups in terms of their need for public transportation and scheduling convenience, emphasis on program quality, and college search strategies. (EV)

Using data from a national nursing job analysis, performance of 189 nursing activities was computed for entry-level associate degree and bachelor's degree nursing graduates. Both performed routine activities most frequently and had similar lower frequencies for more complex or advanced skills. Differences in averages between the two groups were…

Through an experiment with 30 college students, a theory was developed to describe response times and ratings of the difference of stimuli. The model was applied in ratings of the likableness of persons by 22 other college students. A theory of comparative response times and difference judgments is discussed. (SLD)

Argues that the traditional way that the four seasons are taught is culturally biased and does not reflect the actual seasons in many parts of the United States and other nations. Suggests that early childhood programs should take into account the diversity of seasonal transitions. (MDM)

Two trends in postmodernist thought are discernible: one redefines modernist principles such as democracy, reason, and equality; the other deconstructs and rejects these principles. However, the redefinition of modernist principles offers educators the most hopeful and useful conception of dialogue across differences. (SK)

Explores why principals rate their schools more highly than their own teachers do. Disagreements between teachers and principals stem mainly from opinion differences concerning discipline, as this and previous studies affirm. Principals wanting higher teacher morale and closer agreement on school ratings should work toward greater congruence…

Examines three non-deliberate models which reinscribe the suppression of indifference of the bourgeois public sphere in public deliberation. Explains the primary implication has been the construction of separate realms of public and private and particular discourse forms for each realm. Asserts that ends eventually must be determined by…

This article considers the question of how current understandings of leadership might be situated, characterized, and expressed through study and practice in organizations. The perspective presented in the article asserts a broad base for the possibility of leadership action--it is not restricted ground. My assumption is that although the…

Using evidence from eye-tracking studies, Van Gompel, Pickering, Pearson, and Liversedge (2005) have argued against currently implemented constraint-based models of syntactic ambiguity resolution. The case against these competition models is based on a mismatch between reported patterns of reading data and the putative predictions of the models.…

Discussions about transfer have mainly dealt with how people manage to do something in a situation thanks to having done something similar in a previous situation. From an educational point of view, however, it appears more fruitful to consider the case when the learner, having learned to do something in 1 situation, might be able to do something…

This author was once one of those nontraditional candidates who elected to leave a central office post in a metropolitan public school system, with ninety schools and four thousand five hundred teachers serving seventy-five thousand students, to head a six hundred private K-12 boarding/day school in rural Hawaii. While that had been a fulfilling…