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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 22 - September 9, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 21 - August 12, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 20 - July 15, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 19 - June 24, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

No abstract provided.

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 …

Why Is Boston University Still In Chelsea?, Glenn Jacobs

New England Journal of Public Policy

In the face of obdurate social, educational, and political failures, problems, and obstacles, Boston University persists in its management of the Chelsea public schools. It also persists in its refusal to share power with such Chelsea citizenry as the resistant Latinos whose leadership the university seeks to discredit. Jacobs examines the historical background of the city and its schools to decipher Chelsea's economic dependency and repeated fall into receivership and privatization.

Affirmative Action Strategies In Elementary And Secondary Schools, Abigail Therstrom

New England Journal of Public Policy

Disproportionate numbers of black students do poorly on standardized tests; strategies to improve American education thus frequently target inner-city schools. These strategies often have an unrecognized affirmative action component. A search for more minority students or teachers is clearly an affirmative action effort. But the elimination of all tracking or competency grouping is another matter. Normally viewed as nothing more than a pedagogical strategy, it, like other affirmative action efforts, amounts to a conscious effort to alter the low-track status of minority pupils. Similarly, the demand for curricular reforms, racial sensitivity training, and more culturally "appropriate" tests, while not obviously …

Parent Involvement In Urban Schools: The View From The Front Of The Classroom, Frances Gamer, Kathleen Mccarthy Mastaby

New England Journal of Public Policy

American educational reform movements focus on efforts to restructure our schools to include all interested parties, especially parents, in the decision-making process. Nowhere is involvement more crucial than in America's inner-city urban neighborhoods. As parents are given a greater voice in their child's school, educators must join them as collaborators. This article identifies elements that impeded parental involvement and recognizes positive and encouraging techniques leading toward successful family-school-community partnerships. An alliance between groups too long seen as opponents rather than proponents must be established.

A Thoughtful Approach To Public Education Reform, John C. Rennie

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article restates the underlying rationale for the importance of high-quality K-12 public education. The author describes some of the difficulties reformers encounter in engendering support for and determining the most cogent elements of reform. The differences between the aims and capabilities of school-business partnerships, which essentially assist the current system, and systemic reform, which aims to change the system, led to the formation of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. Rennie summarizes the process followed by MBAE in developing a framework for reform and meeting its objectives.

Notes On Higher Education In The 1990s, Zelda F. Gamson

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article consists of a series of essays written for The Academic Workplace, the newsletter of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, since 1990. The backdrop for the essays is the increasing inequality in higher education caused by changes in the political economy of higher education, especially in New England. The first essay analyzes the roots of contemporary faculty dissatisfaction with their work lives by tracing the impacts of the expansion of higher education, changes in the student body, and greater government involvement in higher education. Subsequent essays discuss multicultural education, faculty shortages, political correctness, responses to …

Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 18 - May 20, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 17 - April 22, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 16 - April 8, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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“Knowledge Utilization” Universities: A Paradigm For Applying Academic Expertise To Social And Environmental Problems, Abraham B. Bernstein

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

Promoting the utilization of knowledge is an important mission for institutions of higher education. The "knowledge utilization" university should stand alongside the research university, the professional school, the liberal arts college, and the community college as one of the five archetypes of higher education institutions.

Environmental problems typify a class of social problems that require the utilization of existing knowledge in a trans-disciplinary manner just as much as they require the creation of new knowledge through research. These problems are characterized by their multiple dimensions-- they have scientific, technical, social, political, economic, and ethical aspects, all of which must be …

Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 15 - March 18, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 14 - March 4, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 12 - December 17, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 11 - November 26, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 10 - November 12, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 09 - October 29, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 8 - October 22, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 08 - October 8, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 07 - October 1, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 06 - September 24, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 05 - September 17, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 04 - September 10, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 03 - August 13, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 02 - July 16, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 26 - July 2, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 24 - June 11, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

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