Discusses the problem of reorganizing at the various levels of a school system to make the student-parent interface productive. Three areas of innovative need are research, planning, and policymaking. (JF)

The influences surrounding the decision-making process in educational institutions are examined. (CK)

The article states that significant social change does not take shape in experimental colleges but in the community colleges and state universities. (IR)

The following report appears as the introduction to a privately funded educational history study recently completed by a group of American historians, educators, and legislators. (Editor)

The Land-Grant college system launched by the Congressman from Vermont, Justin Morrill, was to direct higher education down new paths. (Editor/RK)

Discussed Poland's Commission for National Education, active between 1773 and 1794, and its contributions to Polish education. (RK)

The history of Qinghua, at one time China's most Americanized national university, is discussed. Examined are its founding, its development as a university, courses taught, the administrative structure, and how it survived violent disruptions in the Chinese educational world. (RM)

This paper provides a review of two volumes of the "Journal of Industrial Teacher Education" and the "Journal of Vocational Education Research." One of the major findings of this review was that insufficient information was provided to make an informed judgment about internal validity. (SSH)

Research manuscripts recently published in the "Journal of Industrial Teacher Education" (JITE) and the "Journal of Vocational Education Research" (JVER) were reviewed to determine how effectively external validity had been handled. The main issue of concern when discussing validity is the generalizability of findings. (SSH)

This article examines the significance of problems addressed in recent vocational education research published in volumes 4 and 5 of the "Journal of Vocational Education Research" and volumes 16 and 17 of the "Journal of Industrial Teacher Education." (SSH)

The article contrasts the development of secondary schools in Sweden, Finland, and Norway at the end of the nineteenth century and shows how secondary school development was affected by political power structure and conflicts involved in the definition of a national identity for each of the three countries. (SB)

Progress in programs to identify and develop academically precocious youth are discussed while showing that the age-in-grade basis for education impairs learning quality and extent. A national search for talented youth is described, and a longitudinal mathematics team-teaching program is proposed. (CM)