Outlines specific steps for implementing and validating a qualitative methodology designed to evaluate rural areas' special education programs serving students with severe special needs. Provides a rationale for use of the elements of aesthetic criticism as the basis of the methodology and discusses practical limitations and usefulness of the…

Examines literature from several fields that supports the four roles teachers may take during the discussion of controversial issues: exclusive neutrality, exclusive partiality, neutral impartiality, and committed impartiality. Maintains that committed impartiality is the most defensible teacher role. (Author/JDH)

Reviews "Managers of Virtue: Public School Leadership in America, 1820-1980" (Tyack & Hansot, 1982), and "Public School in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years" (Tyack, Lowe & Hansot, 1984). Maintains that the strength of these two works lies more in their balanced synthesis of the scholarly literature than on the direct policy…

Recent developmental theories of sex differences in the valuing of social relatinships and individual achievement help in understanding the nature of sex discrimination in educational institutions. These theories also help to identify ways in which such discrimination may be eliminated. (GC)

A robust and distinctive society of over 15 million people, Australia today is a nation of increasing influence in the international community. Phases in the evolution of Australia's attitude to the outside world are examined and how the country views its international role is discussed. (RM)

The values, norms, and behaviors of the lower class Black community are inconsistent with achievement in American society and with the ethos characteristic of much of the Black middle class. Black leadership should directly address the problems faced by poor urban Blacks through constructive, internal institution building. (Author/KH)

A questionnaire survey of 52 secondary schools in the three school systems (public, private, and Catholic) of Australia's state of Victoria provided information supporting the theories that behavioral values are transmitted through a school's disciplinary system and that the application of disciplinary policy has a significant effect on school…

Higher education's principal reason for being is seen as that of developing student talents. This premise suggests that a high-quality institution is one that maximizes the intellectual and personal development of its students. Student involvement is seen as the cornerstone of academic excellence. (MLW)

Discusses the relationship between young workers and society today, particularly in relation to the role of trade unions in a changing society. Focuses on the general situation in industrialized countries. (CT)

Two topics are discussed: (1) the history of Great Britain's National Association for Education in the Arts and its magazine, "Arts Express," and (2) the publication "Aesthetic Development," produced by a national exploratory group formed to develop methods for assessing and monitoring the aesthetic development of children in…

Summarizes the history of American magazines for children and adolescents from the eighteenth century through the present, and notes that although young people's magazines may come and go, they always reflect the times. (HOD)

Offers a conceptual framework regarding the technical and moral socialization of school administrators; identifies processes and conditions associated with their moral socialization; and concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of these conditions for the study and development of recruitment, selection, and preparation practices in…

Earlier work on the enduring effects of education is reviewed, and data are presented from 22 autobiographical accounts written by college graduates. Most importance was attached to learning high-level intellectual skills and to attitudes and values of personal and professional significance. Implications for curricula and teaching are discussed.…

Examines how and why vocational and manual courses were introduced into Buffalo schools at the turn of the century. Argues that the Buffalo experience mirrored the nation's general ambivalence about educational reform, and also demonstrates ways in which Buffalo's experience was unique. (CMG)

Presents activities for a thematic unit of literature exploring humankind's relationship to the land, as inspired by Robert Frost's poem. Activities include planting flowers, examining travel brochures, viewing a transparency exhibit of images of nature, and journal writing on topics dealing with owning and working land. (HTH)