This paper explains how the public education system resists reforms and shows how to make much higher-performing schools available to disadvantaged children. It explains why change is so difficult and why seemingly obvious solutions will not work. The paper also shows how new ideas about teaching, learning, and effective schooling can take…

A third wave of school reform, originating in the United States, has arrived in the Pacific region. The first wave, which occurred in the 1980s, resulted in increased teacher salaries, core-subject requirements, and an expanded academic calendar. The second wave led to improved teaching conditions, with greater emphasis on professional development…

An important challenge facing education today is the difference in academic achievement among students of different ethnic and racial backgrounds. This situation prompted a study to examine the impact of charter schools on North Carolina's white-minority achievement gap. Examination of test-score gaps between disadvantaged African-American…

Research based on a longitudinal study of 9,000 high school seniors determines inequalities in opportunities for higher education and devises models of the educational attainment process. (Author/PG)

Describes the function of Adult Basic Education and the need for community colleges to be involved with its community's undereducated adults. (RK)

Through use of criterion referenced tests, the number of students falling below the expected level of competency could be determined and funds allocated to bring students of all income levels up to this level. Thus reliance on the assumption that only low-income children have real educational problems could be eliminated. (Author/JN)

According to the American Institute for Research at Palo Alto, California, Apparently, as the unit of analysis is narrowed from the nation as a whole to states and then to local projects, more signs of positive impact on participating children can be identified.'' (Author)

Compensatory Education at its best is merely iodine being used to cure cancer. The problems of America's social, political, and educational systems are far too mammoth to be placated by this feeble effort. (Author)

Traces briefly some of the main relationships between poverty and education in Canada. (DM)

Describes the College for Human Services, designed to train new kinds of professionals in the human services in a two-year program which integrates field work and study. (DM)

Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

From this study it might be concluded that the development of conservation of quantity cannot be explained by maturation. (Author)

The political and emotional furor over busing still overrides the real issue: how to provide quality education for all children. (Editor)

A science museum designed to make the wonders of science accessible to the general public and thereby narrowing the knowledge gap between the scientist and the non-scientist. (Author/RK)