This article discusses general aims of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project and offers a case study of a primary school in Mexico City. (Author/DB)

Presents a general review of research on educational systems, with emphasis on variations in the definition of an educational system, neglected questions, areas of major concern, research needs, traditional and modern stands in the sociology of education, educational politics, and researcher bias. (DB)

Eight articles focus on various aspects of the sociology of youth in the USSR. All articles are translated and reprinted from recent educational publications within the USSR. Topics discussed include the degree to which young people demonstrate characteristics deemed desirable in Soviet youth, vocational education, youth organizations and social…

Four participants report briefly on their impressions and experiences concerning the Third International Conference on the teaching of English, held in Sydney, Australia, August 1980. The topics discussed include English instruction in a multicultural setting and response to literature. (RL)

Discusses a study in which science achievement data on 14-year-olds from the United States, England, and Sweden were analyzed. Findings indicated that the between-school relation of family background to achievement varies across countries while the within-school effects of family background are similar. Inplications are discussed. (Author/DB)

Discusses a study in which data regarding the relationship between grades and student evaluations of teacher performance were analyzed. Findings indicated that there exists a grade-evaluation tradeoff and that, consequently, administrators should take grade distributions into account when using teaching evaluations as a measure of faculty…

Outlines steps toward integrating student opinion into the policy and decision-making structure of the school. The objective is to provide students a way to achieve meaningful participation in the school setting. The relationship among academic achievement, dropout rates, and student participation is discussed and a student opinion questionnaire…

Discusses the neglect of investigations of the social relationships through which reading is developed in schools, analyzes reading as a product of social relationships, and argues that those who propose changes in reading instruction--such as a change to holistic instruction--need to be aware of social constraints on teachers' behavior. (GT)

Discusses the conflict between educational practices and the ideal to educate students for democratic autonomy. The conflict is heightened by the fact that the work most people do exercises their education not in the form of academic skills obtained, but in the form of discipline and obedience that schools implicitly inculcate as part of their…

Stuart Ling reports from his tour of exemplary music programs that many teachers are overcoming the common logistical and economic problems of this time of retrenchment. Donald Nitz is more pessimistic, asserting that music education is clinging to a tenuous status quo after the bright promise of the 1960s. (SJL)

Reviews where we have been, where we are now, and where we ought to be going in teaching American history. Topics discussed include consensus historians, questioning of consensus interpretations, new interest in the origins of Americans, history of women, history of American labor, and development of a new social history. (Author/DB)

Presents ethnographic analyses of two school boards which are characterized by their decision-making processes. One is described as elite (conflict exists between the board and the dominant need of the public), the other as arena (representative segments of the public conflict with one another). (KC)

Discusses a study which tested the effects of providing specialized instruction for research literature analysis and use during the initial stages of problem solving in college level psychology courses. Findings indicated that students who learned to review research profited significantly. (Author/DB)

Based on the premise that the future can be shaped and changed, the article describes an eleventh-grade social studies future-oriented project that helped students learn to create and explore the future. Students were involved in forecasting, investigating various forecasts about the future, discussing the futures issues in class, and collecting…

In this 1979 replication of a 1974 survey, 234 high school principals provided information on perceived influences on curriculum, groups involved in curricular decision making, and use of 20 curricular arrangements and offerings, such as departmentalization, independent study, competencies, moral education, and unified studies. Five-year trends…