Curricular change requires fundamental changes in school organization to be effective. Argues that this can be accomplished "without undue strain and anxiety for the staff". (Author/RK)

About ten years ago the author made a statement that was incorrectly interpreted as predicting the demise of independent schools. Here he corrects that misinterpretation, checks his prediction against 10 years' passage of time, and makes some practical suggestions for the survival of the independent school. (Author/RK)

Describes the successful and lengthy search of the board of education in charge of the Graland Country Day School in Denver to recruit a new school head. (RK)

The need for changing existing attitudes and practices toward minority cultural groups and ways in which this might be accomplished are discussed. (RW)

Uses a wide range of data from nineteenth-century Massachusetts to assess two schools of thought that attempt to link the coincidence between the industrial revolution and the development of mass public schooling in the United States. (Editor/RK)

Profiles the life of Katharine Drexel who worked to educate Blacks and Native Americans and to convert them to Catholicism. Discusses her support of and visits to Native American missions, the schools and missions she helped to build, her contributions to Black Catholic services, her insistence on her fellow sisters' having degrees, and her…

Discusses outlooks for distance education as K-12 enrollment increases in the next 10 years. Outlines distance education development needs. Notes obstacles to addressing large-scale educational problems using distance education and the necessity for a three-part analysis of America's distance education. (AEF)

Explains why marketing is so crucial in a competitive environment. Focuses on how marketing can be used to determine the needs to be met, the manner that services are to be delivered, and how to ensure that customers' or clients' satisfactions are realized. Concludes with recommendations for distance education. (AEF)

Discussed the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and its role in the educational settlement movement. Discusses the Rowntree family's understanding of the relationship between education and democracy. Concludes later descendants veered from funding the settlement endeavors due to lack of funds and interest. Believes this diminished the ideals of…

Discusses that something should be done about Catholic schools that are closing, but that there are no shortcuts to a comprehensive development program. Explains that effective institutional advancement can move Catholic schools in a positive direction. Institutional advancement can be achieved in the following ways: (1) investment; (2)…

Discusses how Moreau Catholic High School has had a 290% growth in a 3-4 year period. Author attributes this to (1) insightful board of trustees; (2) fundraising achieved through friendship; (3) providing individual opportunities for advancing the school; and (4) focusing on principles of Christian stewardship, philanthropy, collaboration, and…

Argues the main deficiency of the Lawrence Kohlberg theory is that it has never lived up to the claim of being a structural developmental theory. Explains that the theory has never shown specific problems at each stage. Ends with a discussion of a new stairway for Kohlbergian theory. (CAJ)

Focuses on the problems of education and development in post-apartheid South Africa. Argues that there must be a focus on the uneven terrain of educational attainment and long term socio-economic development. Discusses factors hindering educational development. Calls for reconstitution of South Africa's educational programs for all citizens. (CAJ)

Discusses the contribution of human capital to national development. Questions assumption of education stability links by examining longitudinal data from France and Germany across 170 years. Results raise the question of whether human investment might be as much a consequence as a cause of economic stability over time. (CAJ)

Denmark's decentralized public primary and lower secondary "Folkeskole" system offers nine years of compulsory instruction, "class teachers" who coordinate other teachers, and students who remain in the same groups until graduation. A 1994 law issuing curriculum guidelines and committing teachers to team teaching will…