Teach For America (TFA) teachers are placed in urban, impoverished, and highly diverse schools. The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges faced by TFA teachers (or corps members) in culturally and linguistically diverse schools in urban St. Louis. In examining how TFA teachers perceive and navigate these challenges, educators will…

This article describes the current relationship between management education in Colombia and the efforts of the management program at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellin to reduce local poverty. The article uses the metaphor of "the bubble" to illustrate how social class, family socialization, and the current UPB…

Child abuse and neglect are serious social problems that make extraordinary demands on teachers' knowledge and professionalism. Yet the field of education has been slow to develop a discipline-specific knowledge base about child abuse and neglect for teachers and teacher education programmes and there is a paucity empirical research into teachers'…

Given the growth in community colleges, the projected need for health career workers, and the central position of the department chair in higher education, this study explored dimensions of leadership as identified by health career department chairs in five Illinois community colleges. Areas of study included: (a) professional profiles of health…

The author discusses scientific literacy from the perspective of a scientifically and educationally unsophisticated society. (Editor)

This article examines the effects of the following forces on curriculum changes and development: (1) The drive for power, (2) the appeal of the dollar, (3) the rapid growth of accumulation of knowledge, and (4) the social and human needs of people in the schools. (JH)

Notes that connecting the teachers' stories and experiences presented in this themed issue are such themes as using real life issues as the curriculum, risk taking, student ownership, and community building. Discusses how these teachers believe in the importance of making curriculum relevant and meaningful to the lives of the children by…

Describes a pilot course designed to provide advanced undergraduate science students with an opportunity to explore the way in which several fields of science and technology interface with society at large. Interests and aptitudes for career work in the science-society interface area are also explored. (Author/TS)

This paper addresses what is illusionary about the implication that a more representative canon has anything to do with a more representative student body and university administration and, ultimately, a better representation of marginalized groups in society. It considers the institutional and methodological barriers which hinder such changes and…

This article is a plea for moving toward an integrative active program which involves students in social action both in the inquiry and testing stages. (Author/RK)

Maintains that NCTE should focus upon problems with which it is prepared by professional expertise and influence to deal; appears also in Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 4 (April 1970), 591-92, as Counciletter: Charting Our Course." (RD)