Contrasting American education with that of other countries, compares systems that differ profoundly in objectives, values, and organization. The American decentralization, lack of a national examination system, and values of egalitarianism, utilitarianism, and individualism work against the single-minded concentration on academic goals of other…

Contradictory public expectations, public and administrative indifference to intellectual content and process in schools, an absence of any clear educational mission, and fragmentation of power characterize today's schools. Decision making is thus increasingly difficult. Restored purpose and power require shared vision and effective use of power.…

Forty-two chief school officers from state departments of education provided information for this study. A table shows the kinds of activities in use in each state, including student codes, community training, surveys of school staff and students, task force reports, and legislation requiring monitoring of violence and vandalism. (PB)

Urges more active attempts to measure the impact continuing education/community service programs are having on the communities served. Calls for a review of priorities; emphasis on impact-measurable programs; and research on costs, funding sources, participant and recipient identification, changes within the community and effects on individuals.…

This survey of 106 two-year colleges in the Midwest indicates that 77 percent have assessment tests in writing and 72 percent in reading, and that English departments play a major role in communicating test results to students. (AEA)

Reports results of literacy tests of 5,500 10-year-old and 5,100 14-year-old students throughout Australia in 1980. Compares these results with those of testing in 1975, pointing out that in reading, overall results were almost identical, while in writing some tasks showed improvement. (JM)

Evaluates role played by the periodical "Economics" in the rise of economics study in English schools since the second World War. Topics discussed include membership in the Economics Association, contribution to the journal by school teachers, and the relationship of the boom in economics study to the general interest in social sciences. (DB)

Describes an educational research study which was undertaken to determine and assess use of recitation in the elementary school classroom as a teaching technique, particularly in social studies and mathematics education units. Findings indicated that recitation should be used more often in the classroom because it does permit some degree of…

Cognitive and noncognitive outputs are surveyed, as well as the effects of inputs on outputs. Groups of student inputs include background characteristics, school-related characteristics, and attitudes. School inputs include conditions and instructional personnel. The literature is surveyed by population samples, data aggregation, and statistical…

The Course Evaluation Scheme involved staff members from a variety of departments in the evaluation of one another's courses. Peer evaluation, as opposed to evaluation by senior colleagues, students or educational consultants, makes this scheme potentially most acceptable to staff for assessing university teaching. (CE)

Evaluates the amount of instructional time which is devoted to map reading and other geographic skills during social studies classes in elementary school. Identifies stages which pupils pass through as they learn to draw maps. Suggests that map experiences be integrated into the curriculum so that children can better accomplish map-related tasks.…

Presents a research study which investigated adolescent attitudes toward the police among two classes of ninth graders in ethnically mixed social studies classes. Students were shown 24 slides, asked questions about the slide, and asked to write a response to each slide. Results of the survey are discussed and additional uses of the survey…

The article discusses a study to ascertain what preservice teachers who had completed student teaching knew about and thought about social studies. A survey focused on definition, purpose, and content of social studies education. Results are discussed. (DB)

Analyzes how vocational education teachers on the high school level in Great Britain perceive the role of teacher in relation to their perceptions of occupational status within their former trades. Emphasis is placed on the uneasy coexistence which is seen to characterize the relations between education and training. (Author/DB)

Discusses a study undertaken to evaluate the influence of two community learning programs on the adolescent participants. Topics discussed include differences in staff roles in the programs, program characteristics, learning outcomes, and participant attitudes. Findings indicated that, in general, youth liked the community programs and learned a…