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Full-Text Articles in Education
What's Wrong With Reform?, James H. Case
What's Wrong With Reform?, James H. Case
New England Journal of Public Policy
The conservative educational reform movement, which still, after more than a decade, is the dominant force in school reform, has had little success in improving schools because it is based on invalid and self-defeating theoretical assumptions. Taken together, these assumptions have the effect of substituting nostalgia — a longing for the schools the reformers themselves attended —for policy and for increasing standardization at the expense of individual growth and development. The reformers (Bloom, Hirsch, Ravitch, Finn, Bennett, et al.) have particular difficulty, given their assumptions, in dealing both with individual differences among students and with ethnic and racial differences among …
Follies: Education Reform And The Promise Of Technology, Nicholas Paleologos
Follies: Education Reform And The Promise Of Technology, Nicholas Paleologos
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article offers an overview of forty years of American education and suggests why technology may save us from ourselves.
The Misplaced Burden: Art Education As Social Healer, Carol Cruickshanks
The Misplaced Burden: Art Education As Social Healer, Carol Cruickshanks
New England Journal of Public Policy
Social transformation is one of the potential benefits of art education, but not its sole responsibility. Why, then, in an effort to ensure adequate funding, are many art educators forced to emphasize this aspect of art education above its intrinsic power to help shape individuals? An art educator examines the historical roots of the imbalance between current educational policy and the practice of public art education.
Service Learning: The Promise And The Risk, Alice L. Halsted, Joan C. Schine
Service Learning: The Promise And The Risk, Alice L. Halsted, Joan C. Schine
New England Journal of Public Policy
Service learning, the pairing of meaningful work in the community and structured reflection, has the potential to transform schools. It provides opportunities for young people to test new roles, develop skills, apply academic learning in a "real world" setting, and move toward responsible citizenship. Service learning can reinvigorate traditional classrooms and turn passive students into dynamic and engaged learners. However, unless it is implemented with care, with a solid rationale and clearly articulated learning and service goals, service learning will fail to realize this potential. The power and the promise of service learning are too great to allow this imaginative …
Key Issues Facing The Boston Public Schools, Robert A. Dentler
Key Issues Facing The Boston Public Schools, Robert A. Dentler
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article is the third examination of the six issues the author identified in "Some Key Issues Facing Boston's Public Schools in 1984," following the November 1983 election of the first thirteen-member Boston School Committee. He revisited these issues in a 1988 report and now assesses how the policy leadership of the system fared in dealing with these challenges during the past decade. He discusses other issues at the close of this article. Writing from a sociological point of view, Dentler is primarily concerned with the question of how well the public school districts and their school staff are able …
Lessons In The Common Good: Voluntarism On College Campuses, Jodi Raybuck
Lessons In The Common Good: Voluntarism On College Campuses, Jodi Raybuck
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article describes the current interest and activity in community service and the undergraduate educational experience. Many examples of campus-based voluntarism with a social reform twist set the stage for passage of the National and Community Trust Act of 1993. What is still necessary, however, is recognition by faculty, administrators, and agency officials that the community service experience must be structured properly, so that both service and learning take place. Drawing on the efforts at Babson College and direct involvement with the national scene, this analysis offers recommendations for implementing a program that helps to cultivate good citizenship and values.
Local Autonomy, Educational Equity, And School Choice: Constitutional Criticism Of School Reform, James J. Hilton
Local Autonomy, Educational Equity, And School Choice: Constitutional Criticism Of School Reform, James J. Hilton
New England Journal of Public Policy
Many critics of America's public education system hail parental or school choice, a program that allows public school systems to compete against one another and, under some proposals, against private educational institutions, for students and educational funding, as the answer to Americas educational crisis. Proponents argue that competition will force public schools to offer students a quality education or close. This article does not evaluate the claims of the parental-choice proposals; rather, it examines the difficulties inherent in funding such a system through traditional school finance mechanisms.
The Changing Nature Of Universities, Ernest A. Lynton
The Changing Nature Of Universities, Ernest A. Lynton
New England Journal of Public Policy
Excessive emphasis on research as the dominant measure of institutional as well as individual prestige and values has created a critical mismatch between the activities of American universities and societal expectations. This article traces the origins of the resulting crisis of purpose to the post-World War II surge in federal research support and articulates the urgent need for basic changes in university priorities at a time teaching and professional services have acquired both new importance and new complexity. It further describes current efforts toward a more balanced view of the components of university missions and a resulting shift in faculty …
Teaching African-American Children: The Legacy Of Slavery, Harold Horton
Teaching African-American Children: The Legacy Of Slavery, Harold Horton
New England Journal of Public Policy
The pathetic state of urban public school education offered to African-American children stems from slavery, when it was against the law to educate slaves, who were regarded as chattel. This article traces the history of the blighting of their minds by stripping those slaves of their African culture, and its effect on African-American children, as well as other children of color, today. Horton offers suggestions for coping with the problems of modern schools as related to respecting and teaching these children, pointing out that the system is the problem, not the children.
Connecting Productive Schools And Workplaces For A Knowledge Society, Byrd Jones, Robert Maloy
Connecting Productive Schools And Workplaces For A Knowledge Society, Byrd Jones, Robert Maloy
Robert W. Maloy
As American education struggles to achieve new competencies for an emerging information age, popular reforms remain locked in industrial-era metaphors. Testing for basic skills, teacher professionalism, and school-business collaboration assumes that schooling prepares workers with skills for predictable roles. Meanwhile, computers and related technologies make possible low-cost information that is transforming learning and jobs. Hierarchical organizational structures that subordinated most employees have given way to flatter, flexible teams. Quasi-autonomous decision making by knowledgeable professionals extends to more and more workers. When businesses simply offer schools a few extra resources, they stunt interactive partnerships that enable youth and business cultures to …
1994 June, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
1994 June, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present
Morehead State University press releases for June of 1994.
1994 May, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
1994 May, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present
Morehead State University press releases for May of 1994.
1994 April, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
1994 April, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present
Morehead State University press releases for April of 1994.
Ua12/2/1 Hillside, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Hillside, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:
- Hannah, Jim. If You Look Around You Know It’s Not Over – Mississippi River, Missouri River, Floods
- Flynn, Leslie. Glenda Lewis Thinks Life Is Like School – School Bus Drivers
1994 March, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
1994 March, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present
Morehead State University press releases for March of 1994.
1994 February, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
1994 February, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present
Morehead State University press releases for February of 1994.
View, 1994-1995, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
View, 1994-1995, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Communications and Marketing Publications Archive
1994-1995 View magazine of Morehead State University.
Msu Update, 1994, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Msu Update, 1994, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Communications and Marketing Publications Archive
MSU Update Newsletters for 1994.
Research On The Ged Credential And Its Use In Wisconsin, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Research On The Ged Credential And Its Use In Wisconsin, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
In 1984 the Employment and Training Institute embarked on a two-year study of the GED and its use in Wisconsin, at the request of State Superintendent Herbert J. Grover. The study explored the use of the GED credential by employers and post-secondary institutions in the state, the level of skills attained by GED holders, and the performance of GED holders in post-secondary education in the state. Some of the findings of the research were positive, some were negative. The long-term goal of the research was to help insure that high school equivalency credentials issued in Wisconsin reflect the high school …
Jona Oder Die Kunst, Unrecht Haben Zu Können. Überlegungen Zur Hermeneutischen Praxis, Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Jona Oder Die Kunst, Unrecht Haben Zu Können. Überlegungen Zur Hermeneutischen Praxis, Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Michael H.G. Hoffmann
No abstract provided.
1994 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
1994 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present
Morehead State University press releases for January of 1994.
Fusing Educational Reform Policy And Action: Assuring The Development Of Local Leaders, George F. Marnik, Gordon A. Donaldson Jr.
Fusing Educational Reform Policy And Action: Assuring The Development Of Local Leaders, George F. Marnik, Gordon A. Donaldson Jr.
Maine Policy Review
School change does not happen in a vacuum. It requires initiative and leadership. Because Maine's educational system features a strong local control component, successful educational change requires development of local leadership. George Marnik and Gordon Donaldson report on the Maine Academyfor School Leaders, an educational leadership development project in which they were involved. Among other things, the researchers learned that successful educational change is not likely to result from a one-size-fits-all state policy. Rather, successful reform occurs "one individual at a time, one school at a time."
Ua12/8 Chief News, Wku Police
Ua12/8 Chief News, Wku Police
WKU Archives Records
WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1994.
Why Pro Bono In Law Schools, Howard Lesnick
Why Pro Bono In Law Schools, Howard Lesnick
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of And Revision Of The Board Policy Manual Of Red Hill Community Unit #10, Dennis W. Kimmel
An Analysis Of And Revision Of The Board Policy Manual Of Red Hill Community Unit #10, Dennis W. Kimmel
Masters Theses
The purpose of this field experience was to analyze current board policy manuals in school districts surrounding Red Hill Community Unit School District #10 in Illinois and to revise and update the board policy manual of Red Hill Community Unit School District #10. This field experience was significant because the author believes a current board policy manual that is organized helps insure the efficient operation of a local school district in the state of Illinois. The job of school governance today is difficult and principles for school governance are essential.
The development of policy statements is a practice that must …