Considers the process of democratizing teacher education in Poland, focusing on the long-term effects of the country's totalitarian history on individuals' ability to take responsibility for their own and others' actions. Describes recent projects aimed at enlarging knowledge about democracy and the training skills necessary for social…

A pooled, cross-sectional, time-series analysis of state manufacturing growth rates for 1970-85 indicates that manufacturing growth was influenced by workforce quality, population density, and elements of states' political economies, including state fiscal capacity, organizational capacity of labor, social wage policies, and state…

Discusses education in general in Vietnam, focusing on Vietnam's system of physical education. Researchers examined government documents and interviewed government officials, teachers, and students to gather information. Results indicated the Vietnamese government has made a commitment to education, though the quality of education has not kept up…

Literacy is a cultural construct, and the dominant view of literacy reflects only dominant values and assumptions. There are many kinds of "literacies," and the Great Divide theory that illiterate people are fundamentally separate from literate people is being rejected in current policy debates. (SK)

Discusses the educational reconstruction movement in Great Britain during and after World War I. Describes the divergent views on reform held by leaders and the effects of those differences on the reconstruction plans they developed. Follows the development of a consensus through council reports and committee writings. (DK)

Using data from a class action suit at the University of Minnesota, this paper shows the different costs arising from paying women a percentage increase on their actual salaries, versus paying them predicted salaries as if they were men. The political consequences of enacting these different equalization methods (without additional funding) are…

A comprehensive, field-tested plan for changing school attendance boundaries involves community-based committees that analyze the relevant data (with support from central office staff members) and develop the initial recommendations for the school board. Outlines a six-step process and lists some basic principles. (MLF)

Selected to replace a dismissed superintendent in Loudoun County (Virginia), Ed Hatrick has won support from teachers and the school board by open communication. Faced with budget cuts, Hatrick is stretching school funds by sharing some resources with the county and combining some jobs in small elementary schools. (MLF)

The British government's White Paper asserts that courses of "leisure interests" should be self-supporting. The administrator of an adult college tries to show a political visitor the much broader context and value of adult and community education. (SK)

Describes school principal leadership in the United States, reviews current literature, and suggests future research for facilitating effective school administrator preparation in various contexts. Leaders are only sometimes "masters of their fates." Given the current demands for implementing school-level reforms, too much leadership is being…

Discussions of four periods in the history of the United Kingdom's teacher education policy highlight context-based teacher quality. The article examines how policymakers define teacher quality in policy changes or management action. It views teacher quality as the way changes in teacher recruitment, training, and work are managed. (SM)

This literature review focuses on five currents: (1) politicization of teaching; (2) professionalization of teaching; (3) curriculum reform in teacher education; (4) democratization of teaching; and (5) revitalization of teacher education research. It concludes that scholarship in technology teacher education reflects mainstream issues, but…

Examines the impact of external debt in Latin America on education in Latin America. Discusses areas of educational policy that require reform to cope with the adjustment process. Urges planned reform to preserve efficiency and equity in providing education. Argues that Latin American governments must promote partnership and responsibility among…

Explores the relationship of educational research to political action. Describes three areas of research in education, empirical, reflective, and creative, carried out by those who seek to understand and those who seek to change. Suggests that beyond the personal and the formal dissemination level, more attention is needed at the informal…

Graduate programs that provide teachers with a global perspective must transcend a system of analysis shaped by U.S. liberal reformism and take other models of the world seriously, including them as integral models in core curriculum. Sound programs should not use a single model for studying the world. (SM)