As the University of California continues to face unprecedented challenges--from state disinvestment, to attempts by the legislature to wrest control of the university, to disruption brought on by new technology, to concerns, valid or otherwise, about the value of college--university leaders must return to fundamental questions about the purposes…

Reviews assessment practices of educational psychologists in the United Kingdom. Concludes three things necessary for educational psychologists to rediscover principles of professional service to children include: issues of responsibility, concept of special education, and approaches to practice. (Author/JDM)

In the Philippines, introduction of a formal education system, new written language, and the knowledge encoded in it have been part of a colonization process and not the result of direct evolution from informal education. The discontinuities between formal and informal education--abstraction, systematization, and specialization--are greater and…