Examines characteristics of educational knowledge produced by educational researchers and considers how this impacts on educational research. Reviews the negative and positive consequences of this structurally egalitarian and substantively divergent knowledge production in education schools. (MMU)

This paper tells a story about progressivism, schools and schools of education in twentieth-century America. Depending on one's position in the politics of education, this story can assume the form of a tragedy or a romance, or perhaps even a comedy. The heart of the tale is the struggle for control of American education in the early twentieth…

Examines the third report of the Holmes Group, which presents a design for "Tomorrow's Schools of Education." The paper finds the report counterproductive and contradictory, suggesting that it presents an anti-intellectual vision of schools of education, which, if followed, would radically narrow their broad range of functions for…

The new report of the Holmes Group, "Tomorrow's Schools of Education," is a simplistic attack on university-based schools of education and calls for their radical transformation and the adoption of one set of standards. It is argued that schools of education can develop individual approaches to future challenges. (SLD)

The insistence of the Holmes Group, in its recent report on schools of education, that schools of education must focus exclusively on the preparation of teachers and that faculty should concentrate their research on professional development, would severely limit the potential contributions of educational research. (SLD)

Schools of education suffer criticism from the public for producing poorly prepared teachers and inadequate curricula. University faculties see the schools as a scapegoat, allowing blame for problems with schools to fall on teacher education rather than on higher education in general. Education schools have not been successful at melding theory…

This paper examines current problems with schools of education, suggesting that while they are neither very successful at accomplishing the marriage of theory and practice nor well-rewarded for trying, there is great potential in a collective re-thinking about the future of schools of education. (SM)