In today's moral environment, teaching the young high moral standards requires cooperation between schools and families. This article describes four successful approaches: developing a school-community consensus about values, forming parent support groups, creating multifaceted parent participation opportunities, and writing parallel curricula for…

Suggests that a constitution for the third century needs no improvement in the 14th Amendment. All that is required is that its promises be honored and that we be vigilant, lest, by reason of the very evil that arose out of its long nullification, it should once more be undermined. (Author)

In "Critical Literacy" Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. challenges E. D. Hirsch's assumptions about culture and education. Calling for a broader and more democratic vision than Hirsch, Provenzo critiques Hirsch's legacy up through the current conservative educational agenda for education which, he argues, denies not only the United States'…

It's a real honor to be with you all today. You have dedicated your lives to advancing the American ideals of equality and opportunity--principles that for centuries have drawn millions of people to risk everything to come to this land. And there is no faster path to equal opportunity than a good education. It is the key to the American dream. And…

This paper explores a distributed leadership perspective on how leaders create contexts that build and support professional communities in schools. It is argued that professional community results from intentional coordination of social interaction among teachers through the design of structures in a situation of practice. School leaders put these…

Many educational practices are based upon philosophical ideas about what it means to be human, including particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. This book asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be…

Education reform based on technical and rational processes often short-circuits reform because it is uncontentious, abstract, and provides educators with no legitimate ways to question the marketplace values and policies that drive much contemporary school reform. The perspective referred to as "betterment" is an alternative reform that…

This report describes the Eisenhower Leadership Program, an approach to leadership learning that aims to educate students for democracy. Based on the premise that democracy at risk threatens the fabric of the national culture, the document presents five key elements considered essential for educating students to become democratic leaders. These…

A framework is offered with which to reconstruct Antimasonry and sectarian radicalism of the 1820's, as well as for other mass movements of the ante-bellum period. (Author/KM)

The challenge to the curriculum specialist is to determine objectives for citizenship which consider the varied democratic principles and societal value demands, and to create a cooperative professional relationship between the college-level and school level curriculum specialist. (Author/KM)

Article examines the application of educational reform in West Germany and the expansion of new consciousness in their educational structure. (Author/RK)

Three steps are suggested to improve the social and political positions in our country and to approach the goal of American democracy: (1) citizens must learn the rules of the game, (2) have a willingness to acknowledge the existence of problems, and (3) develop civic competence. (Author/JB)

Overall aim of this paper is to identify and clarify a conceptual framework which can be used by educators to formulate a more adequate relation between public education and the democratic way of life. (Author)

Harold Rugg of Teachers College, Columbia University, died in 1960. Author presents an analysis of his ideas about creativity" which only recently have become the concern of sociologists, psychologists and educators. (MB)

Historical resume of the role of discipline in the educational process. (MF)