Legislation proposing the establishment of a new federal academy for peace education and research is now pending before the United States Congress. The academy would provide training in conflict-resolution through nonmilitary methods. (PP)

Discusses the problem of fundamentalist Chiristian day care facilities and schools that mete out corporal punishment to young children and justify it with Biblical passages and Christian doctrine. (GC)

Research evidence now lends legitimacy to the importance of the principal's instructional leadership in promoting school effectiveness. (Author/JM)

Students need more exposure to the concept of human rights. They need to know The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the subsequent covenants. Also, they need to know that substantial agreement exists in the international community about what constitutes human rights. (Author/KC)

In an interview, Barbara Koppman, a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and curriculum writer, expresses her opinions on professional standards, teacher morale, teacher evaluation, the use of master teachers, professional organizations for teachers, teacher image in the media, and the school's role in solving social problems. (JN)

Well-drafted codes of discipline can help to eliminate the ambiguity and arbitrariness that often have been associated with school discipline. Discipline codes should be characterized by fairness, fact-finding provisions, completeness of information, frankness, flexibility, informality, firmness, concern with disciplinary suitability,…

Explores the relationship between education and knowledge, with emphasis on knowledge as a commodity. Raises the question of whether intellectuals are workers in the academic form of a capitalist mode of production. Comments on the role of universities in the modern world. (DB)

Reviews the National Institute of Education's 1978 study of school crime. Offers several social trends as possible causes for recent increases in school crime. Suggests methods for reducing violence in the schools. (BE)

Replies to Paul V. Crosbie's criticisms. Argues that: reports of teenage sexuality and pregnancy are exaggerated; sex education programs encourage acceptance of every form of sexual expression; parents cannot always control their children's participation in sex education; and teachers are not equipped to teach sex education in a neutral fashion.…

An annotated bibliography on present and future educational needs and the relationship of those needs to teacher education programs is presented. References were selected from the ERIC indexes, Resources in Education and Current Index to Journals in Education. (JN)

Correspondence theories imply that the social relations of education correspond to the social relations of dominance and subordination in the economic sphere. One limitation of the criticisms of this principle is that they are restricted to the relationship between school and work and do not investigate the link between education and the wider…

Presents an example of what can happen when a teacher is deprived of all decision-making powers with respect to her job, and is required to adhere blindly to restrictions of prescribed programs imposed from outside. Denial of autonomy leads to decline in the teacher's interest and a consequent loss to students. (Author)

The author discusses changes in the role and organizational structures of high school and college seminaries which are being brought about by declining enrollments and rising expenses. (SJL)

The mission of the Catholic school will best be realized through gathering hard data within the community on population trends and movements, then making realistic plans on this basis. In this context, the school remains a conservator of Catholic tradition and yet is also a change agent. (Author/SJL)

The author suggests an agenda for comparative education research based on the metropolitan-hinterland paradigm, which emphasizes the economic and cultural exploitation of the Third World by rich nations. This is a revised text of the presidential address delivered at the 23rd Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society. (SJL)