Examines the expanding role of English in the world and considers whether it is necessary and should be reversed. (Author/VWL)

Examined the role that rituals enacted in an Indonesian school serving predominantly Chinese students played in shaping behavior, inculcating values, and sustaining a learning community. Describes a flag ceremony that highlighted the school's relationship with the state and linking the school's response to government directives to the marginal…

Considers the pursuit of language rights of speakers of English varieties, particularly those collected under the category of African American vernacular English. Describes how a lack of legal language rights for African Americans have left them to appeal to attitudes in the search for democratizing teaching policies. Concludes that attempts to…

Describes oppressive literacy education, how educational (and social) history has led educators to look through the lens of student deficit, and some influences of business and politics on literacy education. Provides examples of anti-oppressive literacy instruction, followed by a brief commentary on recent political events that impact literacy…

Explores the immediate and long-term consequences for higher education of the Republicans' renewed control of the U.S. Senate. (EV)

Argues that most Americans, in support of a shared dream of truly equal opportunity, are choosing to amend, not end, affirmative action. (SR)

Analysis of issues and messages in the mass media and news events demonstrates the dynamics of ethnic and racial relations in the United States. The politics of racism are an unacknowledged part of mainstream ideology, thought, and action. (SK)

Governmental professionalism is declining. There are many more political appointees in the bureaucracy and the environment has not been supportive or trusting. Public officials can play a role in restoring the environment for professionalism. (JOW)

Discusses the nature, scope, and significance of basic philosophical issues in the preparation of researchers, focusing on two assertions: (1) that the curriculum for preparing educational researchers continues to be dominated by logical empiricism; and (2) that research education places a disproportionate emphasis on technical methods and…

Discusses the history and current state of higher education in Central and Eastern Europe, asserting the it should be viewed as fitting into a wider effort to reorient the whole of European higher education towards the knowledge society. (EV)

Reports on the American Library Association's 2002 annual conference in Atlanta. Topics include incoming president Mitch Freedman's initiative to improve librarian salaries; author presentations; new technology, especially Amazon.com, and the library's role; ALA politics; intellectual freedom issues; salaries and recruiting; interoperability; and…

Uses Foucault's work on knowledge and power to show that the politics of language and of researching it are closely related. A study of Cajun French argues that language loss is a social as well as a discursive process and that academic knowledge and discourse both play a significant role in language politics. Advocates the use of local knowledge…

Response to Terry Moe's published claim that certain results of 2001 Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll of the public's attitude toward education underrepresented public support for educational vouchers. (PKP)

Discusses whether the politics of individual practitioners actually influence the causes they adopt and therefore the outcomes; describes research that reinforces the argument that no such congruency exists; and argues that barriers to radical community work are such that its major impact is to strengthen pluralism while making minimal…

Probabilistic risk assessment has been promoted within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a means of judging risk to the public and of determining regulatory measures. Interviews with engineers and other technically trained personnel reveal the difficulties created by expectations that this form of assessment should be applied. (TJH)