States that the increasingly unrestricted growth of competition places national public institutions of education under escalating pressure. Notes that creeping privatization is passing more costs of education onto the citizen. Argues that this internationally subversive process is seldom critically addressed but is instead dominated by a high-brow…

College and university governing boards, spurred by pressure for accountability, feel increasingly compelled to formally evaluate presidents. Use of consultants, reduced faculty involvement, and political issues at public institutions are also factors in this trend. (MSE)

Examines the work of 18th-century educational reformer Anna Barbauld. Traces her links to other radical reform circles including the dissenting academy of Warrington, radical circles in East Anglia, Stoke Newington, the publisher Joseph Johnson, and Joseph and Mary Priestly. Discusses the impact of these groups on early 19th-century education.…

Ongoing study of five Canadian universities engaged in preservice teacher education reform is guided by three clusters of questions focusing on the nature and scope of teacher education reform efforts; the rationales for and intellectual and institutional commitments to reform; and the perspectives, roles, responsibilities, and relationships of…

Examines difficulties and complexities in researching issues of discrimination in education across European countries as a first step in devising intercultural curricula. Discusses cross-national differences in terminology, in the ways in which research issues related to racism and interculturalism are formulated, and in the educational experience…

Offers suggestions for former school board members who want to stay involved in the district. They can serve as critical friends, community liaisons, or cheerleader/resource persons. (LMI)

Focuses on five issues African-American faculty members should be aware of in their search for tenure or promotion: (1) politics; (2) the publication process; (3) developing a research agenda; (4) submission of the tenure "package;" and (5) the review process. Achieving tenure requires sensitivity to the perceptions the institution holds…

Notes public concern over children's moral education, and examines contemporary constructions imposed upon schools by politicians, intellectual forces arising from postmodernism, and pressures of a pluralistic society. Relates the processes that cultivate moral values in a human community to how some schools have successfully achieved a moral…

Asserts that the country's current education system, comprised of local school boards, is fragmented and unfair. Proposes a national education congress to provide direction, promote a more unified effort, and ensure that the education system is responding to the best interests and needs of the American people. (EV)

Discusses the kind of symbolic and strategic value that science-legitimized pedagogical knowledge has in the professionalization of teacher education, studying the history of the science of teaching and the professionalization of teacher education in Finland and suggesting that the teaching profession is better understood when viewed in relation…

Responds to an article on dichotomies in teacher education (SP 527 128), examining two additional issues: the construction of identity and critical citizenship in a world increasingly under the sway of globalization and in the thrall of commodity culture. Not discussing these issues diminishes the capacity of teacher education to participate in…

Discusses the complicated role of the published writer in academics. Suggests that the writer teaching in a university setting has a similar goal to the academic: to illuminate the human experience. Asserts that the writer undertakes this mission in a creative, unstructured way, whereas the academic does it traditionally and often as a critic.…

Argues that choice, diversity, and equity are key organizing concepts of the neoliberal public domain. As such, they are implicated in the failure of neoliberalism to address the central predicaments of the age. Articulates a new vision of a learning democracy expressed through civic cooperation, participation, and justice. (MJP)

Examines conflicting conservative-religious and liberal-humanist ideologies affecting public education. Citizens are divided, due to competing visions of a traditional and new America, parallel and purposive social structures, and modern and postmodern families. Both sides want to bolster parental authority and increase governmental/agency…

As a political concept, inclusion captures the moral high ground by signifying something more desirable than "exclusion." However, not all parents of children with disabilities view mainstreaming as feasible or desirable. The 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act supports a movement away from full inclusion back to special…