The time between the publication of the advance sheets on art education for the biennial. survey of 1920-1922 and the present document has seen greatly increased activity in this field of education. More clearly defined aims and objectives have become apparent in the elementary and high schools. Urgent demands for training in taste and the…

Two of the books reviewed, "Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School" and "The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School," discuss the future of educational reform. "Kinderculture," suggests that today's children are living with a fundamentally new reality in which corporations are the primary educators of the young. (SLD)

Alternative types of business entities and their different tax treatments are examined as they relate to campus entertainers. Issues examined include sole proprietorships; partnerships; corporations; office expenses; independent contractors vs. entertainment agency employees; and selecting a tax advisor. Examples of specific situations are…

Survey responses from a national sample of 1,195 nonunion, nonfarm workers suggest that corporations legitimize themselves by appealing to occupational identities of high-status workers, whereas unions legitimize themselves by appealing to social background identities (ethnic, racial, and gender identities) of low-status workers. Prounion…

Discusses techniques for managing documents in wide area networks, reviews technique limitations, and offers recommendations to database designers. Presented techniques include: increasing bandwidth, reducing data traffic, synchronizing documentation, partial synchronization, audit trials, navigation, and distribution control and security. Two…

Discusses electronic collaboratories, where users can perform research without regard to geographical location. Based largely on experiences with the Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC), highlights include computer software, interactivity, corporate possibilities, behavioral science considerations, Internet performance, and the…

Focuses on evaluation methods for and determinants of success of online courses. Discusses preliminary indicators of course success, student interactions as predictors, intuitive user interfaces, fluid caveats rather than set criteria, suggestions from participants of listservs, a multi-tiered assessment structure, lessons from the corporate…

A survey of 120 top independent national liberal arts colleges ranked in "U.S. News and World Report" compared the structure of their financial reports to those of publicly held corporations. Results indicate that the colleges' forms strongly resemble those of corporations, but are not as readable as the corporate forms. (MSE)

Describes the new service model of the Resource & Information Center at Harcourt, Inc., which was charged with developing and publicizing library services that would empower end-users. Includes tips for purchasing online databases, guidelines for developing content that will draw people into the company's intranet or Web site, and top 10…

Describes Simonton Windows' (Ritchie County, West Virginia) corporate giving program, which focuses on advancing education, improving the physical environment, and assisting those who are physically or mentally disabled. Its recent $50,000 gift to four area school systems was used for science equipment, computer-related programs, work-based…

The Walt Disney Company's shift in ideology from conservatism to liberal multiculturalism is examined, focusing on corporate history, Disney's hegemonic dealings with Latin American and U.S. Hispanic communities, and Disney's role as cultural producer and facilitator of multiculturalism. Analysis of The Lion King points out its contributions to…

Addresses the impediments involved in teaching the economic history of the Gilded Age. Presents six attributes of industrialization to use when teaching about the Gilded Age that concentrate on the fundamental components of economic change: (1) technology; (2) railroads; (3) corporations; (4) finance capitalism; (5) labor; and (6) retailing. (CMK)

Investigates whether business executives and business communication academics were bothered by examples of perceived errors in grammar or usage. Finds usage elements that troubled readers most were basic sentence-structure errors (run-ons, fragments, nonparallel structure, and danglers); several usage errors may be in transition to acceptability;…

Usability tests were conducted on different corporate library Web sites, within the same company but based in three different countries, as part of efforts to build a global library portal site for a large high tech company. Results addressed factors influencing the success rates on the Web sites, user perceptions of usability of the sites, and…

Explores the role of English in ongoing processes of globalization, the reasons for its dominance, and the need for conceptual clarification in analyzing English worldwide. Asserts that language pedagogy must ensure that English is not learned subtractively, to the detriment of the mother tongue--only in this way can globalization be made more…