Public loss of confidence in schools (partly responsible for inadequate funding, censorship battles, and calls for curricular changes) is directly attributable to the growing sense of frustration of people who can't make meaningful contact with the schools. Reasons for the frustration are discussed along with ways to gain community support. (CJ)

Homer's epic poetry illustrates correspondence between society's needs and the values stressed in education, while Socrates' thought uncovers contradictions between social and educational values and seeks a new form of correspondence. Examples from the Epics and Plato's early dialogues trace changing educational attitudes among the Classical…

This essay examines how themes emerging in the writing of New Left thinkers resemble those espoused by traditional American cultural conservatives. The views of Donald Davidson, a representative of the Southern Agrarian movement, concerning industrialization in the United States and the role of progressive education in socialization are discussed.…

The author asserts that the struggle for gender-justice and the struggle to seize the means of production and smash capitalism are aspects of the same effort, in this commentary on an article by Jane Roland Martin (Educational Theory, v31 n2) about sex bias in the intellectual disciplines. (PP)

This paper analyses and comments on an article by Jane Roland Martin (Educational Theory, v31 n2) concerning a masculine bias in the teaching of the intellectual disciplines. Roemer supports Martin's major arguments, including the idea that women are forced to accommodate to norms established for men. (PP)

In the face of widespread belief that women were unsuitable for physical education, Amy Morris Homans and Mary Hemenway founded the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics in 1889 to train female physical education teachers. Later, the school affiliated with Wellesley College and established a graduate program directed by Homans. (PP)

Thirty percent of undergraduate women sampled at the University of California, Berkeley, reported having received unwanted sexual attention from at least one male instructor during their college years. Their reactions suggest that the prevalence of sexual harassment has a cumulative effect of eroding women's commitment to careers in male-dominated…

Reviews books which emphasize the modicum of influence exercised by the public on educational policy. Data were obtained on community-school interaction in 17 communities. Control of educational policy was demonstrated to be in the hands of administrators, with tacit consent of the public. (Author/DB)

This investigation of the effect of stimulus environment design on the probability of desired attitude learning provides a rationale for attitudes as reinforcement or reward values and discusses the roles of human models, group discussion, simulation, visual and verbal mediations of experiences, frequency of exposure, media selection, and learning…

Parents want to know what their children are doing in school; how well they are doing, and how they, as parents, can help. This article is reprinted from PTA Today, September, 1978. (Author/SJL)

A review of research on obstacles to participation in adult education in Finland reveals that the chief hindrances are attitudes toward learning, time, geographic location, and family and work situations. The effects of these hindrances upon participants and nonparticipants vary according to employment status, age, and sex. (SK)

The findings from a survey of 285 participating social work administrators in regard to their valuation of MSW and post-MSW education and training, significant gaps in their educational preparation, and the relevance of their educational preparation for administrative functioning are presented. (Author/MLW)

The most significant change brought about by teacher bargaining has been to enlist the massive participation of educators in politics. But the kind of political and educational leadership that will be necessary to preserve and promote public education has not yet developed. (Author/SJL)

Considers the place of composition in liberal education, the proper aims and conduct of such courses.

The principal aim of the recent NORC study was to "measure the effectiveness of value-oriented education, indeed the survival of a system dedicated to that kind of education, under the stress of immense pressure...". Examines that study in relation to the question of leadership in the Catholic Church. (Author/RK)