"Keeping Pace" has several goals. First, it strives to add to the body of knowledge about online education policy and practice, and make recommendations for advances. Second, it serves as a reference source for information about programs and policies across the country, both for policymakers and practitioners who are new to online…

Recent decades have witnessed dramatically improved survival rates for infants born prematurely, especially those born very and extremely preterm. Follow-up studies concerned with long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes for children born preterm indicate that these children are at high risk for a range of cognitive, learning, neuromotor, and…

This volume deals with the issue of schools and delinquency and contains three major articles. "American Education: American Delinquency" (Gary D. Gottfredson) reviews the documentation for the successes and failures of American education as it has import for the generation and/or control of law violations of youth. It explains how families,…

In response to Irving J. Spitzberg's article on open education in England, the author takes issue with his analysis for focusing on educational 'mechanics' while failing to address the fundamental conflicts of schooling in a capitalist society. (EH)

The Council of Deans of the Schools of Education in the Wisconsin State Universities undertook to (1) identify emerging roles and functions of campus laboratory schools, (2) establish roles and functions for laboratory schools operated by the Wisconsin State Universities, and (3) suggest steps for implementation of roles and functions. A review of…

This collection contains 16 selections, 11 of them reprints of journal articles, address, and dissertation summaries dated 1950 to 1968: 1) "The Historical Development of the Campus Laboratory School," Kelley; 2) "The Campus School: Its Search for Identity," Rzepka; 3) "The Future of the Laboratory School," Howd; 4) "The Present and Future Status…

This report contains the four speeches with comments presented at the laboratory school administrators' workshop: 1) "The Role of Laboratory School as Perceived by the Public School Administrator" by Arthur Shapiro, assistant superintendent for curriculum and personnel, DeKalb Public Schools; 2) "Experimentation and Research in the Lab School" by…

Suggests that the dedication of the early twentieth century Jewish immigrant to schooling produced amazing results in a relatively brief period of time. Jews looked on the public schools as their ladder from the ghetto to the university. (Author/AM)

This description of the school system in contemporary China includes the uses of audiovisual aids at levels ranging from pre-kindergarten to the university. (STS)

Educational advocates of excellence and character need to depend and extend their perspective to include the ideal of civic virtue. (CB)

Growing up in a family with a handicapped child offers non-handicapped siblings unusual opportunies for growth. Having handicapped children in the family can make siblings strong, self-sufficient, helpful, and understanding, or weak, emotional, and dependent. Research on this topic is reviewed, and ways in which parents, schools, and…

After a brief explanation of historical materialism, this article discusses implications for the role of the school in capitalist society. Marxist analysis explaining the school's role in social reproduction is criticized. Ways in which the insights of historical materialism can be put to use by educational scholars are suggested. (MT)

Reviews the major revisionist writings since 1968 and demonstrates that the revisionist writers have had virtually no impact upon the education of teachers. (JOW)

The authors outline an agenda for research on the dropout problem, arguing that a comprehensive program of research should include data on student characteristics, school processes, the act of dropping out, and the economic and cognitive consequences of the failure of large numbers of students to complete high school. (MT)