Compares the social support of 115 low-income housed mothers and 92 homeless mothers residing in emergency shelters, transitional housing, and doubled-up arrangements. Results reveal that homeless mothers in emergency shelters and transitional housing had significantly less contact with friends and relatives. Implications for policy development…

Shows, through interviews with parents, that parents have many complex and idiosyncratic reasons for preferring or opposing certain curricula or educational practices. Indicates what educators can learn from those who disagree with changes they make or plan, thereby reducing the possibility of prolonged public conflict. (DSK)

Suggests five questions for trustees to consider as they evaluate the costs and contributions of using part-time instructors. Questions address: (1) proportion of instruction assigned to part-time faculty; (2) type of program taught by part-time faculty; (3) comparability of qualifications for part-time and full-time faculty; (4) comparability of…

Explains how changes in government policies have caused college students to seek alternative ways to finance college. Explores strategies used by students to pay for college, and the impact work has on their success. Looks at some alternative ways to pay for college, such as employee supported educational programs, savings incentives, and the…

Discusses the need for school districts to develop lucid, comprehensive policies on family and community involvement. Discusses what teachers can do to lead the way, and what school districts can do. Discusses critical issues in such policy: budget/resource allocations, assessment of outcomes, and the collaboration process. (SR)

Reviews some educational issues arising during the first year of the new Scottish Parliament. Discusses facility problems and funding needs of small rural schools, debate over what constitutes standards and which performance indicators should be included in legislation, proposed accountability structures for local education authorities, and the…

Participatory action research is a useful technique for helping low income groups access postsecondary education. Conducting research involving analysis of the use of surplus welfare funds and federal regulations and advocating policy changes by explaining the benefits of public investment in postsecondary education are two roles for consumer…

The French education system appears to reflect worldwide trends (decentralization, school autonomy, and marketization), but actually has proved strongly resistant to external pressures. Schools today are subjected to conflicting moral pressures and increased parent demands. "Putting the pupil at the center" sloganizing has not reduced…

Demonstrates that nationalist pressure, especially from the Gold Coast (Ghana), was the crucial force behind the British Colonial Office's decision to promote higher education in Anglophone West Africa. It places the issues of establishing African universities into the context of an evolving colonial policy of neocolonialism. (SLD)

Discusses how adolescents are defining their need for "safe spaces" in ways useful to the current policy debate about community safety. It reveals adolescent's greater interest in preserving public spaces and youth programs and offers new insights into the causes of youth crime. Reasons for cooperative efforts to define and explore…

The decade-long struggle to remove Indian sports mascots from college campuses and professional sports received a boost recently from the psychology department of the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, which hosted a national conference on the topic that voted to call for removal of Native Americans as mascots. The majority of the…

Discusses the development of a library acquisition allocation formula at the University of Technology, Sydney. Covers the items included, consultative process adopted, details of the formulae derived and their implementation. (Author)

Discussion of technology integration in teaching and teacher education focuses on policy and curriculum reform as they relate to information technology use for teacher education, based on experiences in Cyprus public schools. Discusses the need for shifts in pedagogical approaches and reforms in preservice teacher education and inservice…

Suggests a possible agenda for data collection for the Data on Vocational Education (DOVE) system over the next 5 to 10 years, examining two major categories of information: program outcomes, including student achievement and participation in further education and the labor force; and program characteristics, including attributes of programs and…

Focuses on the way in which feminist educators as administrative leaders conceptualized policy within a "masculinist" Australian state bureaucracy. The seven participants addressed issues of policy production in a technist bureaucracy while negotiating the personal contradictions and tensions of being administrators and feminist…