The decline in test scores is demonstrated to be a result of changing philosophical attitudes toward tests and learning. It is suggested that traditional standardized tests may no longer be appropriate. (JMF)

The author states that the survival of Catholic colleges lies in their ability to offer the best of the academic world within the context of a perceptible and convincing Christian community. (Author)

A new two-track system of higher education is being laid down in the U.S., suggests this vice-president of the Danforth Foundation. The two tracks are occupied by institutions that are narrowly academic or traditional, and by those that may be described as broadly educational or nontraditional. The differences and implications of the trends are…

Examines recent changes in history curriculum in Ontario, Canada. The curriculum decisions stress ethnicity and cultural pluralism in English Canadian society. The new curriculum for elementary school history and social science is entitled "Multiculturalism in Action," and the secondary curriculum includes a unit on Canada's…

Examines the relationship between education and development in Latin America. Describes a series of studies which will be undertaken involving case studies from various Latin American countries, analysis of rural education problems, labor market influence, and processes of formulating and implementing educational policies. (Author/DB)

Analyzes education in light of social structure and social change in Latin America. Identifies styles of education which are correlated with certain social conditions. Concludes that additional research should be done on education as an integral part of the social system. (Author/DB)

Seriously questions the current beliefs that reading scores in urban schools will remain low due to ever-increasing poverty and minority populations, and that a child's learning patterns are irreversibly set in preschool years. (Editor/RK)

Discusses school reform in the Soviet Union during the last ten years. Need for reforming the syllabuses, which were identical in all schools, arose when an educational policy of universal secondary education was adopted. The shift from secondary education for college-bound students only to general education for all is discussed. (BC)

It is suggested in this paper that United States public education systematically denies children's intellectual rights. Problems and impediments in the way of implementing change are noted. (Author/AM)

In a comparison of the cultures of schools in Portugal and the United States it is noted that in Portugal students have almost unrestricted social freedom but extremely limited pedagogical freedom, while in the United States students have very little social freedom but enjoy a vast amount of pedagogical freedom. (Author/AM)

Declining academic standards will not improve unless institutions of higher education reject the new form of relativism, which continues to be the prevailing educational philosophy. Examples of declining standards are reported, and educational philosophies and the phenomena which encourage the persistence of the current ideology are examined. (JMD)

Harvard's recommendation of a core curriculum is examined and related to the general status of American higher education. It is suggested that the Harvard curriculum offers insight into the crisis faced by academe, and that the so-called reforms reveal failures of imagination and will and offer too little too late. They fail to examine the…

Reviews educational philosophies associated with progressive education. (SL)

Contrasts Karl Popper's theory of social reform with a Marxist theory of reform. Concludes that a liberal approach to educational reform, as exemplified by A.S. Neill's self-governing school at Summerhill, is generally more satisfactory. (Author/DB)

Relates the goals, nature, and extent of programs related to multicultural education in the United States, Mexico, Great Britain, France, and Puerto Rico. Most of the programs were developed in response to the ethnic movements of the 1960s and are dominated by a strong assimilationist ideology. (Author/AV)