This book describes the process of unionization among university faculties using case studies of unionization campaigns at three universities. In higher education, faculty unions may have improved the situation of many faculties, but they may have accomplished this at the cost of increasing public skepticism and even antagonism. The chapters are:…

The essays in this collection consider the extent to which South Asian Americans are included within "Asian America" as the term is applied to academic programs and admissions policies, grassroots community organizing and politics, and critical analyses of cultural products. The essays are: (1) "Within Kaleidoscope Eyes: The…

This book looks at the school voucher movement and its likely consequences for American education in future years. Based on an extensive, nationally representative survey, it explains that Americans are quite sympathetic to public education and are afraid to do anything that would harm public schools. Despite this, many surveyed also tend to think…

The issue of history, specifically history textbooks, has been at the center of South Africa's educational reform debates for years. One of the consequences of South Africa's delayed curricular reform is the continued use of apartheid-era history textbooks, which, among other things, deny European colonization and conquest and claim that whites…

This study examined the politics of school-community interaction around a high school construction project, describing the events surrounding one school board's decision to renovate versus rebuild its high school building. The study examined: public involvement in the decision to renovate; the political after-effects of this decision;…

This study evaluates the language-related programs mandated in the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961, a federal policy designed to promote national security through the promotion of advanced language training and access of the U.S. government to such expertise. This study has two principal components: a retrospective assessment of the effectiveness of…

Existing school funding systems have continued to be challenged in state courts. This report contains a summary of recently filed cases in Arizona, California, Kansas, New York, Texas, and Wyoming, together with a brief summary of federal court activity in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Comments are supplied concerning the risks of lawsuits…

This quarterly journal serves literacy programs by sharing information of a practical and theoretical nature with literacy field workers. Articles in this volume include the following: "Long Words" (Ursula Weisemann); "Introduction to Bilingual Schooling Typology through Three Examples" (Scott McCracken); "The Challenge of…

Every 30 years or so, a very public yet personal debate about the nature of appropriate reading instruction emerges in the media and in the policy talk in legislative venues. It manifests itself in a "code-emphasis" vs. "meaning-emphasis" dichotomous debate that wears on the teaching profession at the same time that it sells…

This monograph contains a case study of a controversial curricular innovation in Malta: the introduction of a subject called Systems of Knowledge at the postsecondary education level. The first part of the case study provides a historical interpretation of how Systems of Knowledge came into existence. The second part of the case study presents a…

This paper summarizes the proceedings of the 1999 Symposium on Research and Scholarship on Higher Education Governance, Trusteeship, and the Academic Presidency sponsored by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. The symposium addressed the state of research…

This report examines issues of politicization in elementary and secondary school science and science teaching. An introductory section introduces the issue of purposeful intrusion of politics into education theories, standards, and curricula. It focuses on the point of entry of politics into science education; the technology of truth; whether or…

The University of Texas had planned many innovations (nontechnical courses in science, ombudsmen, reemphasis on undergraduate education) but due to a power struggle in the administration, many were abandoned. (PG)

Discusses the nature of science and technology and provides a number of examples to illustrate the impact that science and politics have had on each other. Advocates the need for the development of courses which integrate science, politics, and social change. (JR)

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union operates two separate systems of political schools; one of the Party officials and one for the rank-and-file Party membership. This article presents a complete description of the professional training schools, indicating that training in such schools precedes assignment to leading positions in the Party's…