Presents an interview with Bob Kerrey, president of New School University, on fund raising's role in politics and the campus presidency. (EV)

Examines the challenges of senior public service in the executive office of the president of the United States. The memoirs used demonstrate the high cumulative cost that public service exacts on the health and private lives of senior officials. Reveals themes regarding how officials navigate dilemmas and challenges of public service. (Contains 24…

Notes that Judith Butler is arguably one of the world's most influential and innovative scholars dealing with questions of difference, identity, and the role of rhetoric in subject formation. Explores Butler's views on anti-intellectualism and identity relating to sexual orientation. Presents an interview examining many of Butler's writings. (SG)

Maintains that commercial pressures for profitability threaten best practice in fields such as broadcast journalism and history publishing. Asserts that similar pressures for improved student standardized achievement test scores force educational quality to be sacrificed to the demands of the marketplace. Contends that it is time to reflect on…

The National Association of Scholars, a three-year-old college faculty association, promotes the study of Western culture and offers a forum to professors who have felt inhibited from questioning affirmative-action programs, required courses on ethnic diversity, and other issues whose advocates are increasingly described as "politically…

Presents a panel discussion of five eminent educators (Ira Aaron, Jeanne Chall, Dolores Durkin, Kenneth Goodman, and Dorothy Strickland) on a variety of issues in literacy education, including the politics of literacy education and the challenges facing literacy educators in years to come. (MG)

Reviews the history of censorship of books in China from the earliest Chinese history to 1949. The role of religion and obscenity in censorship are discussed, but the primary focus is on the political use of censorship, including the structure and regulation of censorship in communist China. A brief Chinese chronology is provided. (22…

Success in achieving Marxist principles requires the concept of a "mass" party and a program of authentic political education rather than indoctrination for the working masses. The concept of workers' adult education as critical, self-conscious, emancipating activity would end the separation of theory and action. (SK)

Addresses the question of generational equity and discusses several intergenerational policies that have been proposed, including family leave and long-term home health care. Concludes that the aging lobby must adapt to a changing political landscape, view intergenerational policy proposals in a more favorable light, and devote more attention to…

Reflections on the politics of program evaluation are presented. Topics discussed include policy question development and translation into evaluation questions, translation of evaluation questions into the evaluation proper, translation of evaluation findings into policy, and generation of new policy questions. (TJH)

Examines teachers' perceptions of school politics in a southeastern state. Teachers cited numerous examples of principal favoritism related to hiring, promotion, appointments, termination, evaluation, and other practices and attributed principals' need for protection and control to several factors. Favoritism negatively affects teachers, often…

Examines two criticisms of the politics of collaborative learning. Argues that consensus can be a powerful instrument for students to generate differences, identify systems of authority that organize these differences, and transform the relations of power that determine who may speak and what counts as a meaningful statement. (MM)

The education reforms of the 1980s may best be viewed as a single national reform with state variations. A brief overview is presented of five state education reforms which are described and analyzed in this issue. (JD)

Using data from a study of the National Curriculum Physical Education for state schools in England and Wales, the paper examines how the political right has attempted to regulate and control the remaking of the National Curriculum and embed the principles of cultural restoration in the physical education curriculum. (SM)

Uses a semiotic reading of nonverbal communication as a way to comment on the ideologies of various cultural contexts. Suggests that the semiotic approach offers a method of "reading" the metatextual meanings surrounding nonverbal behavior. Finds that a reading of the political leaders of different cultures reveals the connection between…