The revisionist educational historians have begun to question and reinterpret many of our previous conceptions of the efficacy of the public schools in bringing about an improvement in the status of ethnic and lower-class whites in America. (Author)

Article discusses the growth, development and use of television in Zambia's educational system. The author points out some of the difficulties and shortcomings in the use of television and some recommendations for future use. (Author)

Several innovative philosophers, creators of systematic theoretical systems, have made their impact on Turkish educational thought since the turn of the century. A range of positions about education which have emerged during Turkey's modernization process are discussed. (SM)

Suggests that comparative education tries to obtain an idea of the development and differentiation of the modern educational structure.

Discusses the Newman Commission's Report on Higher Education. (PG)

Will the current efforts in higher education to codify and to define procedures establish a new consensus through which the politics of trust can operate or will they institutionalize ill feeling? (Editor)

Discusses various curriculum designs in social work education. (HS)

The purpose of this paper is in part to set out the conditions of steady evolution within individual institutions, but in part also to insist on the need for a re-thinking of the strategy adopted by national bodies, local authorities and others concerned with the improvement, the continuing development of school work and methods. (Author)

Author takes statements about higher education, and changes them to be more contradictory. (PB)

Describes the Chicago Public School System program for developing at the earliest possible age an appreciation for the system of law. The program promotes creative experimentation in the uses of legal content on various levels of instruction, starting with the fifth grade and extending to the eleventh. (JF)

Provides a brief synopsis of the struggle to achieve popular schooling and focuses on the influence of Horace Mann. (JF)

The prime purpose of the public school is to serve the general welfare of a democratic society, by assuring that the knowledge and understanding necessary to exercise the responsibilities of citizenship are not only made available but actively inculcated. (Author)