Past Issues

1984

Spring 1984

Introduction
Harold Howe II

"...accountable after the politicians have moved on..."
John Barranco

"...the conditions of teachers' work..."
David K. Cohen

"...what teachers know: the best knowledge base..."
Eleanor Duckworth

"...recognizing differences as resource and strength..."
Alvin V. Fortune

"...for the short and long term..."
Rosemarie V. Rosen

"...a missing and essential element..."
Carolyn D. Wyatt

Hard Times, Then and Now

Public Schools in the 1930s and 1980s

David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot

Setting the Standard

Alternative Policies for Student Promotion

David F. Labaree

Spring

Hard Times, Then and Now
Public Schools in the 1930s and 1980s
David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot

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Summer 1984

Transforming the Frog into a Prince

Effective Schools Research, Policy, and Practice at the District Level

Larry Cuban

On the Education of Policymakers
Israel Scheffler

Educational Inequality in South Africa and Its Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
Kevin Danaher

Merit Pay for Teachers

A Poor Prescription for Reform

Susan Moore Johnson

Public Philosophy and the Crisis in Education
Henry A. Giroux

Summer

Merit Pay for Teachers
A Poor Prescription for Reform
Susan Moore Johnson

Transforming the Frog into a Prince
Effective Schools Research, Policy, and Practice at the District Level
Larry Cuban

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Fall 1984

An Interview

Lewis Thomas Discusses the Threat of Nuclear War

Lewis Thomas

Resistances to Knowing in the Nuclear Age
John E. Mack

Problematic Aspects of Nuclear Education
Barbara Tizard

The Role of Education in Preventing Nuclear War
Eric Markusen and John B. Harris

Between Feeling and Fact

Listening to Children

Brenda S. Engel

Chronicles

The Catholic Bishops' Peace Pastoral and Higher Education

Judith A. Dwyer

A Decisionmaking Approach to Nuclear Education
Roberta Snow, Lisa Goodman

A Classroom Experiment in Teaching for Peace

Solutions to Global Problems

Charlotte Waterlow

A Middle School Approach to Peace Education
Frederick B. Cunningham

Beginnings
Jean Jacobson

Education for Peace and Justice
Kathy Greeley, Susan Markowitz, Carol Rank

A Nuclear Energy Science Week
Michael W. Antrim

Teaching Peace

A Moment of Opportunity

Francis X. Meehan

Fall

The Role of Education in Preventing Nuclear War
Eric Markusen and John B. Harris

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Winter 1984

Variations in State SAT Performance

Meaningful or Misleading?

Brian Powell and Lala Carr Steelman

Placing Women in the Liberal Arts

Stages of Curriculum Transformation

Marilyn Schuster and Susan Van Dyne

The Bandwagon Once More

Vocational Preparation for High-Tech Occupations

W. Norton Grubb

Winter

Placing Women in the Liberal Arts
Stages of Curriculum Transformation
Marilyn Schuster and Susan Van Dyne

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1983

Spring 1983

Evaluating the Effect of Coaching on SAT Scores

A Meta-Analysis

Rebecca DerSimonian and Nan M. Laird

What You See Is What You Get

Consistency, Persistency, and Mediocrity in Classrooms

Kenneth A. Sirotnik

Equity and the LSAT
Brian Powell and Lala Carr Steelman

Toward Meeting the Research Needs of American Indians
Teresa D. La Fromboise and Barbara S. Plake

Spring

Evaluating the Effect of Coaching on SAT Scores
A Meta-Analysis
Rebecca DerSimonian and Nan M. Laird

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Summer 1983

Two Perspectives

On Self, Relationships, and Morality

Nona Plessner Lyons

The Application of Competency Testing Mandates to Handicapped Children
Martha M. McCarthy

Literacy and Language

Relationships during the Preschool Years

Catherine E. Snow

Summer

Literacy and Language
Relationships during the Preschool Years
Catherine E. Snow

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Fall 1983

Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education

A Critical Analysis

Henry A. Giroux

Toward a More Effective Model of Research on Teaching
Arthur S. Bolster, Jr.

Teacher Unions in Schools

Authority and Accommodation

Susan Moore Johnson

Fall

Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education
A Critical Analysis
Henry A. Giroux

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Winter 1983

The Proposal in Perspective
Diane Ravitch

The Peter Pan Proposal
Ronald E. Gwiazda

The Yellow Brick Road of Education
Floretta Dukes McKenzie

Qualified Praise for Liberal Learning
Mary Frances Berry

Education, Democracy, and Social Conflict
Martin Carnoy

Two Cheers for the Proposal
Steven M. Cahn

A Response on behalf of the Paideia Group
Mortimer J. Adler

Microcomputer Use in Schools

Developing Research Agenda

Karen Sheingold, Janet H. Kane, and Mari E. Endreweit

Winter

Education, Democracy, and Social Conflict
Martin Carnoy

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1982

Spring 1982

Numbers and Narrative

Combining Their Strengths in Research Reviews

Richard J. Light and David B. Pillemer

Reflections of a Black Social Scientist

Some Struggles, Some Doubts, Some Hopes

Jacquelyn Mitchell

Spring

Numbers and Narrative
Combining Their Strengths in Research Reviews
Richard J. Light and David B. Pillemer

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Summer 1982

Excluding Women from the Educational Realm
Jane Roland Martin

Some Legal and Research Considerations in Establishing Federal Policy in Bilingual Education
Iris C. Rotberg

Education Grant Consolidation

Its Potential Fiscal and Distributive Effects

Mary E. Vogel

Women in Higher Education

Trends in Enrollment and Degrees Earned

Mary Lou Randour, Georgia L. Strasburg, and Jean Lipman-Blumen

Summer

Excluding Women from the Educational Realm
Jane Roland Martin

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Fall 1982

Functional Literacy

Fond Illusions and False Economies

Kenneth Levine

Yeshiva Shock Waves
David Kuechle

Peasant Consciousness Under Peruvian Military Rule
Erwin H. Epstein

Thinking About Bilingual Education

A Critical Appraisal

Ricardo Otheguy

Fall

Functional Literacy
Fond Illusions and False Economies
Kenneth Levine

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Winter 1982

The Federal Role in Education
T.H. Bell

The Federal Role in Elementary and Secondary Education, 1940-1980
Carl F. Kaestle and Marshall S. Smith

The Federal Role in American Indian Education
Frank Anthony Ryan

The Federal Role in Increasing Equality of Educational Opportunity
Kenneth S. Tollett

Federal Grants and Educational Equity
Henry M. Levin

Policy and Organization

The Impact of State and Federal Educational Policy on School Governance

David K. Cohen

The Importance of the Federal Role in Improving Educational Practice

Lessons from a Big-City School System

Thomas K. Minter

The Federal Role in Educational Improvement
Brenda J. Turnbull

The Federal Role in Educational Research
P. Michael Timpane

The Role of the States in Federal Education Programs
Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin

Winter

The Federal Role in Elementary and Secondary Education, 1940-1980
Carl F. Kaestle and Marshall S. Smith

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1981

Spring 1981

Nicaragua 1980

The Battle of the ABCs

Fernando Cardenal, S.J. and Valerie Miller

The People Speak Their Word

Learning to Read and Write in Sao Tome and Principe

Paulo Freire

The Literacy Campaign in Cuba
Abel Prieto Morales

"What Go Round Come Round"

King In Perspective

Geneva Smitherman

Education as Transformation

Becoming a Healer Among the !Kung and the Fijians

Richard Katz

Children of a Brazilian Favela
Robert Coles

The Identity Crisis of Educational Planning
Henry M. Levin

Educational Change and National Economic Development
Pamela Barnhouse Walters

Schooling, Development, and Inequality

Old Myths and New Realities

Gerald W. Fry

The "New Era" in China's Educational Revolution
C.T. Hu

The Contradiction of Bantu Education
Mokubung O. Nkomo

Aboriginal Education

The School at Strelley, Western Australia

Kenneth B. Liberman

Didactic Theatre in Africa
David Kerr

Home (poem)
Derek Walcott

Spring

Nicaragua 1980
The Battle of the ABCs
Fernando Cardenal, S.J. and Valerie Miller

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Summer 1981

On Generativity and Identity

From a Conversation with Erik and Joan Erikson

Erik H. Erikson and Joan M. Erikson

Culture and Educational Achievement
Gaynor Cohen

Discovering the Pedagogy of Experience
David Thornton Moore

Summer

On Generativity and Identity
From a Conversation with Erik and Joan Erikson
Erik H. Erikson and Joan M. Erikson

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Fall 1981

Sophie and Emile

A Case Study of Sex Bias in the History of Educational Thought

Jane Roland Martin

Church and State

Separation or Accommodation?

Martha M. McCarthy

The Bounded Politics of School Desegregation Litigation
David L. Kirp

Fall

Sophie and Emile
A Case Study of Sex Bias in the History of Educational Thought
Jane Roland Martin

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Winter 1981

The Allen School

An Alternative Nineteenth-Century Education, 1818-1852

Judith Strong Albert

Report Analysis

Public and Private Schools

Marya R. Levenson, Dawn Geronimo Terkla

Evidence, Analysis, and Unanswered Questions
Richard J. Murnane

The Issue Is Still Equality of Educational Opportunity
Jomills Henry Braddock II

Disciplined Inquiry or Policy Argument?
Anthony S. Bryk

Why Public and Private Schools Matter
Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Unasked Questions
James W. Guthrie

Policy Implications of the Public and Private School Debates
Barbara L. Heyns

Questions and Answers

Our Response

James Coleman, Thomas Hoffer, Sally Kilgore

Reducing Student Alienation in High Schools

Implications of Theory

Fred M. Newmann

Winter

Report Analysis
Public and Private Schools
Marya R. Levenson, Dawn Geronimo Terkla

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1980

Spring 1980

The Passion and Challenge of Teaching
Sophie Freud Loewenstein

Success Anxiety in Women

A Constructivist Interpretation of its Source and its Significance

Georgia Sassen

Advancing in School Administration

A Pilot Project for Women

Kathleen D. Lyman and Jeanne J. Speizer

Sexism in Teacher Education Texts
Myra Pollack Sadker and David Miller Sadker

Employment and Education of Mexican-American Women

The Interplay of Modernity and Ethnicity in Eight Families

Maxine Baca Zinn

Anxiety and Mathematics

An Update

Sheila Tobias and Carol Weissbrod

Spring

The Passion and Challenge of Teaching
Sophie Freud Loewenstein

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Summer 1980

Education in the Eighties
Francis Keppel

The Scholastic Aptitude Test

A Critical Appraisal

Warner V. Slack and Douglas Porter

Synthesizing Outcomes

How to Use Research Evidence from Many Studies

David B. Pillemer and Richard J. Light

Domestication as Reform

A Study of the Socialization of Wayward Girls, 1856-1905

Barbara M. Brenzel

Performance-Based Staff Layoffs in the Public Schools

Implementation and Outcomes

Susan Moore Johnson

Summer

Performance-Based Staff Layoffs in the Public Schools
Implementation and Outcomes
Susan Moore Johnson

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Fall 1980

Education and the State in Capatalist Society

Aspects of the Sociology of Nicos Poulantzas

H. Svi Shapiro

The False Promises of Community Colleges

Class Conflict and Vocational Education

Fred L. Pincus

What I Teach and Why
Selwyn R. Cudjoe

The Scholastic Aptitude Test

A Response to Slack and Porter's "Critical Appraisal"

Rex Jackson

Training, Validity, and the Issue of Aptitude

A Reply to Jackson

Warner V. Slack and Douglas Porter

Philosophy of Education

Some Recent Contributions

Israel Scheffler

Fall

Education and the State in Capatalist Society
Aspects of the Sociology of Nicos Poulantzas
H. Svi Shapiro

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Winter 1980

Socialist Criticisms of Education in the United States

Problems and Possibilities

William A. Proefriedt

Early Childhood Programs in Latin America
Robert Halpern

Administration and the Crisis in Legitimacy

A Review of Habermasian Thought

William P. Foster

Winter

Early Childhood Programs in Latin America
Robert Halpern

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