In this article, the author provides a self-portrait of his intellectual life. He states that overall his approach to teaching and researching is about "making sense" where inadequate or incongruous conceptions fall into place or are transformed so they are congruous and adequate. In his teaching the author applies the methods of…

All public schools in the United States have been caught up in educational reform. This has especially been true since the 1980's. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a major component in how schools have changed the process of educating students. In response to reform efforts, many schools have relied on their own knowledge to achieve higher…

Demand for university education has increased due to the recent innovations of universal, free and compulsory education at the basic and senior secondary education level. Education has been expanding very rapidly at all levels in Nigeria. However, there are serious problems related to quality, equity, unavailable human and material resources and…

This report is the third in a series of annual reports produced by the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP) that will provide descriptive information about the schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). This year's report contains a new section that examines schools from both the public and private sectors that…

Many undergraduate liberal arts institutions offer computer science majors. This article illustrates how quality computer science programs can be realized in a wide variety of liberal arts settings by describing and contrasting the actual programs at five liberal arts colleges: Williams College, Kalamazoo College, the State University of New York…

The 2019 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 55th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The purpose of the "Digest" is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. It contains data on a variety of…

Philosophy was created by accident out of nothing. The verb "to be" can be confused with "to exist." The accidents of the fact that the "copula" is both a transitive and an intransitive verb are sometimes thought to have plagued ancient Greek thinking until Aristotle discovered logic and thus saved the world from…

The concept outlines included in this study guide were used as the basis for development of examinations for Academic Decathlon programs at the local, state and national levels. The subject areas covered are: Economics; Fine Arts (Visual Art, Music); Language and Literature; Mathematics (General Math, Algebra, Geometry, Calculus); Science; Social…

The questions that are central to the curriculum field--why certain things should be taught, who should get what knowledge, what rules should govern the teaching of school subjects, and how the components of the curriculum should be interrelated--indicate that curriculum development is not a neutral, technical activity. Curriculum development…

This paper develops three theses: 1) education generally and teacher education in particular are disadvantaged by faulty governance systems and structures; 2) many of the problems of education stem directly or indirectly from these faulty structures; and 3) there is urgent need for a whole new set of assumptions about the governance of teacher…

The author analyzes the power structure of the social science professions. He discusses the doctrine of the professions, the theory of the competition of the elites and the universities and professional elitism. For journal availability see SO 504 516. (Author/RM)

An index of concentration for rank-frequency distributions is proposed which permits comparison of subject and journal concentration in various fields. Applications of the measure to different aspects of bibliometrics are suggested. (Author)

Recent developments in history and the social sciences are moving toward a mode of historical inquiry which promises to contribute to scientific knowledge of human behavior. This mainly involves the use of quantitative methods and materials in historical research. (Author/AV)

Social psychology's current crisis largely reflects the division of the field into three increasingly isolated domains: psychological social psychology, symbolic interactionism, and psychological sociology. Brief critical discussion of these facets indicates that the strengths of each complement the weaknesses in the others, highlighting a need…