Over 2,000 human resource development articles were categorized using a strategic issues life-cycle model. A process for managing strategic issues has four steps: identify issues, analyze potential impact on business, formulate strategies, and implement policy solutions. (SK)

Economic crises in the Andean region countries have helped deepen and intensify sex discrimination. The contributions of feminism to popular education may enable active participation of women in the democratizing process. (SK)

Recent political action by the Higher Education Assistance Foundation, the largest student-loan guarantee agency, has highlighted the increase in contributions by administrators, faculty, owners of proprietary schools, and lobbyists to legislators' campaigns, and the growing sophistication of the process. Supporters call it prudent; opponents…

Uses President Bush's commencement speech to compare and contrast the "link and impact turnaround," an accepted form of argument in academic debate, with the "linguistic turnaround" as executed in political discourse. (NH)

In the early 1950s, Highlander Folk School administered a workers' education program for the United Packinghouse Workers of America. The program ended because it threatened the power of certain union leaders, raising issues for the ways popular educators can work within institutions to transform and democratize them. (SK)

Simultaneous evaluations of the existing Department of Veterans' Affairs pharmaceutical distribution system and an alternative "prime vendor" distribution concept in the private sector were conducted. This review of the methodology illustrates the problems and advantages in conducting large multisite evaluations simultaneously. (SLD)

This review of China's liberation struggle, 1920-40, examines political education in the Chinese Communist army, the educational process during land reform, and the participatory process of learning in social action exemplified by the history of this period. (SK)

Responds to an article by Strubell, "Language, Democracy, and Devolution in Catalonia," explaining differences between various dialects grouped under the Catalan umbrella and focusing on the context of the new language-policy legislation, the impact of the new legislation, tensions arising from the implementation of the language policy,…

Demonstrates how demographic, economic, and political transitions in U.S. society have changed the nature of race relations since the social upheavals of the 1960s and suggests the need for rethinking multiracial organizing. Explores multiple oppression politics as a strategy to overcome racial and ethnic divisions. (Author/SLD)

Discusses the historical shift from teaching religion to teaching about religion. Calls for teachers to develop a greater understanding of religious diversity, its role in shaping lives, and the effect it has on historical change. Offers suggestions and resources designed to assist social studies educators to teach meaningfully about religion.…

This critical review focuses on 13 articles and 5 book chapters by special education scholars who express wariness about the concept of inclusion. This article challenges the supposed neutrality of these experts about special education and inclusion and calls for recognition of the impact of special educational practices on educational equity.…

Discusses the origins of multicultural education from the perspective of cultural epistemology, contending that at issue in the debate over multicultural education is the challenge of paradigmatic shifts in understanding multicultural society and multiculturalism as sociopolitical constructs. (SLD)

Analyzes E. Nesbit's late Victorian time travel novel for children "The House of Arden." Suggests that Nesbit's deflation of the past stems from her radical ideology, and that the comic relief in which each time travel episode culminates reflects her desire not to harrow her child audience. (RS)

Reviews Dinesh D'Souza's "The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society" (1995), exploring his neoconservative ideology in the context of concepts of the underclass and what it means to be Asian American or an immigrant. D'Souza perpetuates the Model Minority thesis, which is itself a form of inferential racism. (SLD)

A database of about 300 published evaluations is used to compare some of the lessons learned in recent practice to some of the traditional theoretical precepts of evaluation. Evaluation practice should recognize its sources in politics as it keeps its independence. Changes to help bring this about are recommended. (SLD)