There is a real conflict between "humanism" as a point of view and "accountability" as a process. Most of the "accountability" literature today is characterized by a devotion to measurable ends, an implicit belief that the ends justify the means. The other half of the educational equation has to do with educational…

More than 10,000 students, grades 5 through 12, representing 139 school districts across the United States, responded to a questionnaire designed to ascertain their perceptions of what existed and how they felt about 225 incidents which were judged to be related to oppression in schools. Data were analyzed according to sex, grade level, race, and…

Education should help people learn to use past experiences as a basis for acquiring new meanings, which frees individuals from what restricts and what enslaves. However, the curriculum has become a program for social purposes and the school an instrument of social control when, in reality, what is needed is persuasion (not coercion) and discussion…