The marketing discourse pervading the restructured English public higher-education sector has several subdiscourses characterized as neutral (common-sensical), collusive (reinforcing the existing market system), or subversive. The third (postmodernist) discourse envisions marketing as a means of overturning tradition and allowing students to…

Examines President George W. Bush's higher education agenda, including campaign pledges of increased aid to low-income students and help for families saving for education. Also describes committee changes in the 107th Congress. (EV)

Presents the historical context of Cape Town, South Africa, and its struggles against apartheid and apartheid education. It offers a case study of Allen Powell, a white teacher and administrator who worked to integrate Plumstead High School, an act that defied South African commonplace and the views of most white South Africans. Analyzes Powell's…

Reviews the modern academy's intellectual foundations, rooted in Marcuse's, Ginsburg's, Kerouac's, and Mailer's ideas. Highlights Kimball's new book on the 1960s cultural revolution. Questions the notion that the 1960s were about peace, love, compassion, and diversity, revealing deep connections between modern political correctness and Marcusian…

Examines two books, "The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education" and "Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore," both of which apply urban regime theory to a new policy arena, reconsider the role of business in local school politics, bring politics into…

Evaluates 27 print statistical sources that specifically cover women and were published in English during the 1990s in the areas of criminal justice; economics, labor, and income; education; health; lesbians; general sources; international women; Europe; and politics. (Author/LRW)

In Massachusetts; Washington D.C.; New York City; Chicago; Baltimore; Cleveland; and a host of other big cities, challenges to both elected and appointed local school boards have become commonplace in the last year. Discusses the situation in Chicago. (MLF)

Discusses the current (unacknowledged) national curriculum, the myth of local control, the need for a national curriculum, major issues, and building a national curriculum. (SR)

Examines the letter writing of two Romans, Pliny and Trajan, as examples of deliberative discourse. Suggests that their discourse may come closer to the discourse of United States corporations than to that of the United States Congress. Draws on theories of management communication. Looks at specific letters in addition to reviewing historical…

Examines the ambiguity over the role of headteachers in Spain by evaluating recent legislation, the impact of Franco's legacy on education, and the current preoccupation with democratic government at all levels. The paper highlights important attitude changes toward the role of the headteacher now occurring (mainly at local levels). (Author/SM)

Reviews contemporary environmental education in Uganda. Presents a new approach that emphasizes the adoption of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, people-centered, and participatory programs in environmental concerns. Embraces the diversity of the biophysical, social, and economic environments and is closely associated with permanent…

Asks what English teachers must do to improve their quest for fostering vivid, dynamic, original, and thoughtful writers. Argues that conceptual shifts must occur, more people must be educated about writing and learning to write, research from the past must fuel future research, a unified conceptual writing curriculum must be implemented, and…

Discusses an exploratory study of administrators' potential for generating knowledge out of their own practice settings. Describes various topics studied, the methods used, and the practical, epistemological, and political dilemmas encountered. Insider research could be a powerful lever for personal, professional, and organizational…

Argues that the national debate on early education cannot be separated from needs of working families, nor be pitted against the belief of the importance of parents to children's lives. Maintains that it is necessary to promote early education of young children at home, in child care, and in other early childhood programs and that such issues…

Outlines how reading became occupied by scientists and positivists who made of reading something mundane, inconsequential, and quantifiable. Discusses the effect that this occupation has had on the pedagogy, politics, and policy of reading in schools and society. Examines the resistance to reading that is provoked by these occupying forces. (SR)