This booklet examines high-profile issues and major questions involved in international educational achievement studies. Some of these questions, which education activists and the public most often ask, are as follows: What benefits do international studies of achievement have for development of curricula in countries participating in this study?…

This paper identifies how comparative educators have chosen to visually represent the field of development education since about 1963. This is an attempt to historicize the vision as scholars struggle with the representational dilemmas and opportunities of late modernity/postmodernity. The paper is organized in three parts. Part 1 illustrates how…

This paper reports on an ongoing process of identifying and meeting the professional needs of faculty in higher education environmental programs in the United States. It includes the self-reported strengths and weaknesses of environmental studies programs and the analysis of them by Kormondy, Corcoran, and Tchen (1997). It contains a descriptive…

The first section of this paper presents the results of Ohio's 1999-2000 Annual Education Technology Assessment. Topics addressed include: the assessment methodology, progress toward eight SchoolNet goals, and better state and local decisions; overall progress toward building the infrastructure and fostering the growth of new practices; and needed…

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) promotes excellence and equity in education by conducting research and demonstration projects, collecting statistics, disseminating information, and providing technical assistance to those working to improve education. OERI supports two major research and…

A look at how the program committee of the European Broadcasting Union developed an international production program for educational television. (HB)

A look at how several European countries pooled their resources in order to have more media programs with better quality. (HB)

The educational program of a communist labor university in South China's Kiangsi Province is described. Classes in agriculture, forestry, accounting, animal husbandry, and farm machinery are offered on a part-work, part-study basis which combines education with productive labor. (SM)

Asserting that the revisionist historians of today avoid acknowledging the elements that make our condition tragic and our future forever unclear, the author proposes an approach without reliance on scapegoats, determinisms,--without hope of a final resolution of the tension between the individual and civilization. (JM)

This article attempted to achieve some balanced appreciation of the interaction between local and central authorities and between African and European initiatives in the evolution of African education by examining the development of two mission sponsored educational institutions in Kenya from about 1875 to 1920. (Author/RK)

Article considers the policy of decentralization in Israel and the problems of implementation. (RK)

This essay has defined the goals which presidents of private institutions believe private higher education should achieve. (Author)

The immediate past president of the National Council for Community Services dercribes the developmant of the "continuing education unit", and its implications for community services practitioners. (Editor)

Jean Reid described a recent three week tour of China, from the Hongkong border in the south, through Shanghai to Chenghow, in the centre. She took the photographs on the journey, which focused on the great social revolution taking place in China and the enormous educational development at the base of that change. (Editor/RK)

Article traced some of the historical thought-paths to open education today, highlighted some of the key events in its development in the United States, rekindled interest in some older writers on education, and provided references to some of the more significant educational documents. (Editor/RK)