Text of an interview of Frank Reissman by Irving Louis Horowitz suggests that while social problems are experienced locally in the big cities, their cure lies nationally at the federal level. (Author/AM)

This research is an effort to analyze the process of organizational change as it takes place within one segment of the public administration mechanism in Venezuela--The Ministry of Education. (Editor/RK)

A concept of levels in viewing the training function in organization is presented in four theorems: Costs, organization management, organization climate, and the effects of these on results. As credibility of the training function may depend on superficial appearances rather than substance, the effective training manager should be educator and…

Discusses the particular context of policy system and adaptation when perceived as politicized phenomena, describes a macro policy system--those responsible for the university and college preparation of educational administrators--under stress conditions, and speculates on the "natural" process of adaptation that occurs within this policy context.…

With its 50th anniversary series, the Great Books Foundation renews its partnership with public libraries to reach a new generation of readers through shared inquiry. Describes the beginnings of the Great Books movement, its influence on race and politics, the role of libraries, and the 50th Anniversary Series, which is, in part, a response to the…

Details typical charges against expressivist rhetorics, while sketching a version of expressivism underwritten by the principles and procedures of ordinary language philosophy. Suggests that the teaching and learning practices that emerge from this analysis compete with the vague, sometimes grandiose ambitions of expressivist practitioners as they…

Board members from around the country identified the keys to successful school board campaigns. Generally, board members say the cost of waging an election campaign is rising. Candidates are making fuller use of voter lists to target demographic groups. A sidebar lists the high cost of getting elected in the large districts of Dade county,…

Analyzes three conceptions of children's rights and explores the tensions between them as realized in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and the development of the "best interest" principle. Advocates reconceptualization of the debate to see local perspectives as functioning in relation to--rather than opposed to--global…

A literary review of 10 books that concern the culture wars being waged in schools and politics. (MLF)

Presents a conversation with Gerald Graff and Ira Shor that draws on Graff's notion of "teaching the conflicts"--which argues that students should be exposed to the conflicts inherent in disciplines--and on Shor's belief in the liberatory power of teaching, namely, the power to question the status quo in the tradition of Paulo Freire.…

Discusses a few reasons why many public schools are just now beginning to embrace computer literacy and technology. (SR)

Notes how the British Army's Officer Corps, based on elitism and financial standing, brought the British Empire to its knees. Argues that privatization--a for-profit market system to ration out education--would have a similar effect. Suggests that charter schools (with considerable autonomy but still held accountable by the chain of command) are…

This article asserts that the Right wants textbooks to reflect their idealized past (two-parent families, mothers at home, obedient children), while the Left wants texts to reflect their idealized future (old people are not frail, race and gender are not issues, and blindness is not a disability). To accommodate both, publishers now censor…

Addresses the whole language versus phonics debate. Catalogues some of the central features of the Bush administration's educational policy, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Supports a dynamic, literature-based curriculum. (SG)

Presents reflections on the demise of this journal. Considers how the message of No Child Left Behind is: separate instruction, instruction based upon assumptions that certain children cannot learn, is inherently unequal. Suggests that equality of education means receiving a quality education that meets the learning needs of each child. (SG)