Whether on a national or an international level, it is important to settle how values are comprehended and justified. This study investigates how university students in Turkey and Lithuania make sense of certain values. The study has a pattern of a case study. The respondent selection was made by benefiting from the studies conducted in both…

This study conducted a case study of homeschooling in order to provide in-depth information regarding the demographic characteristics of homeschooling parents, the motivations and the process of practicing it and its outcomes in Shanghai. The public and the policy-makers, and education officials have had little substantive information in relation…

The controversy surrounding Pennsylvania's efforts to implement its version of outcome-based education (OBE) is a cautionary tale of contemporary public school reform. Religious conservatives have succeeded in undermining OBE in Pennsylvania, and their ambition is to affect the direction of public educational policy nationwide. (SLD)

The New Christian Right is hardly a new force in American education, but its recent activism leaves unresolved the question of whether it seeks to transform America in its own image or merely to protect its own position and respect for its special values. Implications for educational policy are considered. (SLD)

Traces the history of the relationship between religious groups and public education in the United States, and argues that there is not now, and never has been, a concerted effort by the courts or educators to indoctrinate school children to discriminate against religion or to make schools religion-free zones. (SLD)

Draws on data from a larger study of California schools to examine how the different individual orientations that 130 innovative and 118 traditional teachers have toward assessment interact within the school and district contexts to shape assessment attitudes and practices. Perceptions of innovators and traditionalists differ regardless of school…

Studies problems of 69 traditionally prepared and 162 alternatively certified first-year elementary school teachers in Houston (Texas). Results show that alternatively certified teachers appear to have more problems after two months, but differences disappear by eight months, supporting the utility of alternative certification. (SLD)

Although researchers have devoted little attention to how religion affects education, religion has always played a major role in education, and religious groups continue to attempt to influence curricula and practices in public schools. Successful educational reform will depend on considering religious and cultural factors in planning and…