Discusses an article by Tom Barone, "A Narrative of Enhanced Professionalism: Educational Researchers and Popular Storybooks about Schoolpeople," which challenges educational researchers to work toward changing the public's generally negative conception of schools and schooling by creating compelling narratives about schoolpeople. (SR)

Reviews "Choices Made, Worlds Created: The Rhetoric of AERJ" by Margaret J. Marshall and Loren S. Barrett, on how the rhetoric employed in a given group influences its members' thoughts and practices and applies the analysis to the teacher-researcher relationship. (SR)

Discusses several articles and books about codependency, the decline of public education, and public discourse. (MG)

Warns against tendencies in educational circles to make lists but not check them twice. Discusses Denny Taylor's "Learning Denied" and Bart Kosko's "Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic," as well as seven education articles. (SR)

Discusses a startlingly current 1953 article called "Recent Trends in the Teaching of Reading" by Virgil Herrick, and a 1992 book by James Moffett called "Harmonic Learning: Keynoting School Reform." (SR)