This report discusses the idea that all children should receive the support that they require in order to meet their educational goals, and how the schools are supposed to provide this support. It discusses how United States schools are not all equally successful at accomplishing their goals. (AMT)

Education can be a powerful force in promoting the smooth transition of youth from the status of student to that of productive worker in the real life of our complex economic structure. (Author)

Article, reprinted from The New York Times, clarifies some of the points discussed in About Christopher Jencks's New Book--Inequaltiy,'' an article by James W. Becker and Dave Darland which appeared in the December 1972 issue of Today's Education. (Editor/CB)

Tongue in cheek speech advocating the great cause of unresponsiveness.'' (CB)

Argues that the function of futurism is essentially one of stimulating thinking. Discusses changes in the age of information; compulsory education; how the future looks for schools, administrators, and teachers; the role of the school; how teachers look at education; and the role of technology within education. (CT)

Asserts that studies of classroom climates concluded that religion is seldom discussed in public schools. Sees this as inconsistent with important precedents of society; says public schools ought to provide opportunities for students to discuss religion, broadly defined, in scholarly fashion throughout their normal school routine. Delineates 10…

The charter school landscape is dramatically different today compared to when the federal government first forayed into the field in 1994. That year it established the Charter School Program as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA. The Charter School Program, which is designed to support the startup of new public charter…

This guide briefly retraces the rise of ideologically charged residential life programming on campuses and shows how such programs, despite their seemingly innocuous goals, in fact undercut the principles of rational inquiry that are foundational to the academic enterprise. In the fall of 2007, one university conducted a program for all 7,000…

Schools represent the primary setting where refugee children learn about Australian life and culture. They serve as a broad context for acculturation not only for academic development and language acquisition but for cultural learning too. This paper focuses on the after-school homework tutoring programme that uses University of Western Sydney…

Every year, the ministry writes to the public post-secondary institutions outlining operating budget allocations, service delivery targets and priority issues. The letters are a component of ministry planning, as identified in the accountability framework. Goals and objectives are identified in the annual ministry service plan. Each institution…

A number of factors can contribute to youth's reactions to disasters. These factors can include characteristics of the event; the nature of youth's exposure; and individual, family, and social predictors. This article describes both outcomes and predictors in order to prepare professionals who might work with youth in post-disaster situations.…

In this article, the authors seek to contribute to the growing engagement with the school-prison nexus by considering two, perhaps less obvious, factors that implicate schools in the business of the prison industrial complex (PIC)--the examples of gentrification and sex offender registries. By unpacking some of the rhetoric that surrounds…

This chapter provides an overview of board governance, its effectiveness, and changes over more than four decades. The authors also offer strategies for creating partnerships between presidents and trustees that lead to future institutional success.