Compares the school decentralization process and political background in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami. Finds that successful programs are characterized by local-level policymaking, strong alliances between district management and teachers, an atmosphere conducive to change and risk, and a willingness to allow schools independence in…

Discusses various viewpoints on poverty. Contrasts progressive-era politics with today's dependency politics. Differing views of the poor and the causes of poverty impede the implementation of the new paternalistic programs which have, in some places, begun to succeed. Urges a consensus. (DM)

Examines the sudden birth of journalism education in Romania, the problems affecting its infancy, and the debates surrounding its future. (SR)

This article examines the position of German in the European Community (EC): What role has German played since the founding of EC? How did the two current working languages, French and English, come about? What are the pros and cons of German as the third working language? Who are the advocates and opponents of the German language and why? (AB)

Calls for language education to be retheorized to make it serve education for democracy. Highlights the relationship of language and power. Suggests that progressive language educators' theories-in-practice may well just be a kinder, gentler way to maintain those systems of dominance that keep democracy as far away as ever. (RS)

Gandhi's conception of basic education was spiritual and holistic, in contrast to Western-inspired vocationalism. The incorporation of his craft-based system into the nationalist agenda perpetuated the class barriers he was trying to dissolve. (SK)

Expresses gratitude and respect to James Gray, retiring Director of the National Writing Project, and lists assignments Gray has outlined for the National Writing Project. (SR)

Presents an interview with Richard Ohmann. Addresses a number of questions about political contestation within the study and teaching of writing and the current attacks on political correctness in the academy. (RS)

Draws on Wilhelm von Humboldt's typology of the active human being to debate the questions whether and how individuals can produce their social and political world. Discusses, with reference to Marie Condorcet and Immanuel Kant, procedures of the public that are necessary prerequisites for actions aimed at forming the world. (DSK)

Demystifies the two "faces" of micropolitics. "Policy micropolitics" distinguishes between micropolitics and management and focuses on the relationship between school micropolitics and the wider macropolitical context. "Management micropolitics" makes no clear micropolitics/management distinction and focuses on…

Examines the dynamics of the science-curriculum reform process. Highlights the nature of metaphors guiding reform efforts; the influence of social, historical, economic, and political forces on the reform process; the use of local and professional languages as discourses for communicating about reform; and the complex power relations that…

Discusses the construction of Asian immigrant women's work in the context of the "racialized feminization of labor" in the global restructuring of capitalism. Illustrates the intersection of work, immigration, and gender through a discussion of Asian female garment workers in the United States. (SLD)

Demonstrates how demographic, economic, and political transitions in U.S. society have changed the nature of race relations since the social upheavals of the 1960s and suggests the need for rethinking multiracial organizing. Explores multiple oppression politics as a strategy to overcome racial and ethnic divisions. (Author/SLD)

Suggests borrowings should not be analyzed in a purely linguistic typology; politics, the economy, and social contacts provide a valid alternative. French purists on both the left and the right are as concerned with politics as with language. (Author/VWL)

In attempting to ground the principle of reason and reground the metaphysical foundations of higher education, this paper examines the ethics and politics of research within the university, taking cues from the metareflexive reverberations of a question asked by Jacques Derrida, "Is the reason for reason rational?" The paper discusses…