Political, attitudinal, and administrative problems of teaching compulsory foreign languages in Colombia are described and discussed from the point of view of a French teacher in a system characterized by confusion and lack of student interest. (MSE)

Encourages professional dialogue to establish correspondent interests among college English faculty who have taken positions in defense of the teaching of either rhetoric or literature. (AEA)

Schwab's work in curriculum planning emphasizes the need for eclecticism and the legitimacy of an uncertain, practical orientation. This essay analyzes the effects of Schwab's theory and calls for a new language for education, to be formulated through practical contact with the processes of schooling. (MJL)

Argues that if schools are to escape the function of perpetuating existing class and caste divisions, they must be guided by concepts of education as transformation rather than education as remediation. (CMG)

This article discusses issues involving education for scientific literacy. Citizens need to understand how science and technology impinge upon public policy; education must equip them to make decisions in areas where science and society interact. (PP)

Presents a sketch of two groups, one lower middle class and conservative, the other upper middle class and liberal, who squared off to fight the battle of desegregation in the schools of Richmond, California. (Author/RK)

A study of women and education is centered around the questions of access to education, formal and informal educational arrangements, societal views of women's status and role, educational theory vis a vis women, women and the delivery of educational services, and the historiography of women in education. (MB)

Tomorrow's teacher will have to be a scholar, acquainted with all of the arts and sciences. (MM)

Although historical barriers to the inclusion of women in higher education are weakened, continued progress requires continued vigilance. (Author)

The purpose of this compilation is to sketch the evolution of the field from vocational education to career-technical education throughout the 20th century in the United States. It includes information and excerpts from a variety of sources, including both original and foundational documents from the early 20th century and more recent histories…

Hong Kong has always been proud of its economic achievement of the past decades. However, the economic turmoil that swept over East Asia has revealed the weakness in its economy, which, in turn, urges Hong Kong to reform its education system to meet the challenge of this era of information technology. There are many problems in Hong Kong's…

This book is a comprehensive guide to implementing the InfoQuest program in libraries, schools, and school library media centers. In the InfoQuest program, a research question is posed each week, and students have all week to come to the media center and use a variety of reference tools and media to research the answer. Small prizes are awarded to…

The identity of the progressive educational movement is in a state of crisis. Past answers, it seems, are no longer sufficient to define an educational policy that responds to the objectives of democracy and equity in education. To help understand this crisis, some reflections on the role of education are offered in this text, which tries to…

Academic rigor is a topic that resides at the very core of the traditional conception of the academy. At the dawn of this new millennium, the popularity of new pedagogical beliefs and instructional strategies, such as constructivism and problem-based learning, and delivery methods, such as online distance education, make it clear that it is time…

America has never really been a fully functioning democracy, and there are now signs of further public retreat from the very concept of democracy. This book contains essays organized around the central tenets, practices, and issues of democracy and education. The essays address the following questions: (1) Why do we have public education in…