Author concocts a speech'' modeled on opening remarks at educational conventions. (SP)

Discussed are the evolution and problems of the middle school movement. It is suggested that perhaps the middle school is helping to identify what is desirable for all levels of education and the only real difference between levels is the student. (Author/KC)

Suggests that remediation may well be but a memory in undergraduate education by the year 2000. Notes that research indicates that student motivation and teacher morale can improve if remediation disappears from higher education. (RS)

Reprints an article originally published in 1937. Discusses three denominations of educators, each with a graven image which the author has worshipped. Argues that the devotees of academic education worship the past; of progressive education, the future; of civic education, the present. Suggests that sensible teachers will get help from each. (RS)

Reprints an article originally published in 1938. Discusses the concepts of authoritarianism and democracy. Suggests that the struggle between these two ideologies was the most important problem confronting education in the late 1930s. (RS)

Argues (guided by "The Challenge of Change: Assessment in the 21st Century") that in the decades ahead, assessment will play an unprecedented role as the vehicle that will influence and guide scheduling, curriculum, and instruction. (SR)

Reviews the issues surrounding merit pay: its history, its general failure, and the problem of measuring good pedagogy. (SR)

Highlights some of the more important issues that affect the education of exceptional learners, including shared responsibility, transition, technology, and special health. (SR)

Uses Monty Python's 1970s comical vignette, "The Spanish Inquisition Sketch," as a metaphor for the process educators experience as they encounter each new curriculum-reform effort. (SR)

Argues that "middle schools" (marked by inclusiveness, cooperation, and commitment to the general welfare) are at risk, pressured by those who believe school should be utilitarian. Argues the purported academic failure of the middle school is because middle school tenets have not been sufficiently implemented, and that middle school educators bear…

Traces the history of corporal punishment in the public schools and discusses its use today. (FL)

Develops a sociological and philosophical perspective on lifelong education as a goal that is integral to an advanced, technologically directed, democratic society. (FL)

Discusses several threats to the future of the middle school, including shifting social priorities, shifting enrollments, co-curricular challenges, school building problems, schoolwide tracking and ability grouping, advisor-advisee programs, and the preparation of middle school teachers and administrators. (SR)

Proposes that English teaching in the year 2000 ought to include: acceptance of the notion of students' unique responses to literature; storytelling; the reintroduction and extensive use of field trips; the classroom as a community of readers and writers; less grammar study; and more emphasis on thinking skills. (SR)

Argues that the science curriculum of the future should attempt to link a working knowledge of science to the common aspects of everyday life. Shows how such an objective relates to the belief systems of individual students, which often vary from that of instructors. (HB)