This paper draws on the opinions of principals, teachers, and students regarding the state of education in Hong Kong. It examines the conceptualization of education quality in schools and introduces a multilevel and multi-indicator framework. The text profiles indicators of student attitudes, student satisfaction, negative feelings, and attainment…

Student outlined his view of the community college and its effect on his life. (RK)

Author gives examples of how widespread the tendency has become to politicize all of life, and why it seems unfortunate to view all things in such terms. (Author/RK)

One-hundred and four seventh and eighth grade students of State University College at Buffalo Campus School were administered the Self-Concept of Academic Ability Scale, the California Study Methods Survey, and two other attitude scales. (JM)

Reports a study of both the willingness of black professors in predominantly white colleges and universities to teach in black colleges and to encourage others to attend these schools, and the experiences of the respondents in black colleges. (Author/JM)

Reports a study investigating the relationship between selected social characteristics--age, sex, occupation, education, and regional residence--of black Americans and their satisfaction with the pace of school desegregation. (Author/JM)

Partial report of a survey on job markets for the Doctor of Arts in communications. (RN)

The Student Rights Strategy is a strategy for providing high school people with humanizing experience. (Author)

Black student from middle class family recounts his experiences before and after attending a community high school. (RJ)

The status of science education in this country probably reflects widespread feelings that science is elitist and lacks relevance for most students' lives. This popular view of science should be changed through preservice and inservice teacher education, curriculum reform, and other measures. (PP)

The story of open education illustrates the fact that theoretical models are ideal descriptions of educational practices and beliefs, rather than bodies of prescriptive rules and principles. Open education is viewed as part of a philosophical tradition in education, much of it predating the movement of the 1960s. (PP)