Describes how the Corpus Christi public school system adapted around 1900 to that region's changing social and economic conditions. Contends that the public schools reflected the peculiar form of racial segregation that became established in Corpus Christi and reflected the local society's caste-like structure which separated Blacks, Whites, and…

Recounts an interview with Professor Amita Verma. Highlights Professor Verma's contributions to practice, research, and policy in early childhood education and development at the national level in India. Suggests sources of information and the influence of various leaders on early childhood education and care in India. Indicates that concern about…

The rhetoric and educational policies on the use of history for citizenship education in England are reviewed for the period from 1880 to 1990. The rhetoric about the contribution of history to citizenship education has been strong and consistent, challenged only by the discipline itself in recent years. (SLD)

Summarizes the 1997 amendments to IDEA in hopes that a solid understanding of the law will clarify the current rights of children and help inform advocacy efforts toward future amendments. Some of the changes include clarification of these terms: child with a disability; developmental delay; related services; supplementary aids; transition…

Both educational policy and philosophy in New Zealand have been heavily influenced by the ideas and practices of other countries, particularly those of the United States. The U.S. idea of social efficiency, which became a central concern of New Zealand's educational policy makers in the 1920s, holds a prominent place in the history of education in…

Presents the results of a research project on the history of education for girls in Prussia. Concludes with an outline of the impact of the identified trends on the educational expansion which took place in the Federal Republic of Germany during the last three decades. (Author/BSR)

The relationship between developing a national identity and schooling is explored in the Canadian historical context. Emphases is placed on the constitutional difficulties faced by the federal government in evolving a national educational policy. (CJB)

Keypoint schools were established by the Chinese in the 1950s to concentrate limited resources in a relatively small number of schools in order to cultivate outstanding students. The evolution of keypoint school policy from the revival of these schools in 1978 to 1983 is discussed. (RM)

Analyzes ways in which Latin American countries have addressed curricular regulation from the late 19th century to the present, focusing on education reforms during the 1990s in Argentina. Examines textbook policies over time and the tensions between recent decentralization policies and increasingly centralized educational assessment. (Contains 28…

Reviews French educational reform projects of the past 30 years, and offers some explanations for their failure. Discusses groups with a vested interest in continuing reform, the lack of national consensus on educational policy, and the discontinuity of political leadership. (34 references) (SV)

Events leading to Great Britain's substantial and differential cuts in student numbers and recurrent grants to universities are chronicled and related to the responses of nine universities. The universities' lack of preparation for the cuts and policy implications are discussed. (Author/MSE)

The Higher Education Act of 1965 fulfilled a dream for President Lyndon Baines Johnson. To understand this president's deep interest in education, one must first understand the factors which were responsible for the development of Lyndon Johnson, the man. His family background had much to do with his veneration of education. Both his parents and…

The method by which the systems view of educational knowledge production and utilization (KPU) has emerged from the federal experience of the last twenty years (1954-1974) is discussed. The impact of this approach on more recent federal KPU programs is considered, and the suitability of such an approach with regard to meeting the proposed criteria…

The 1975 policy decision of the Swedish Parliament to reform universities and colleges followed many official inquiries, particularly the 1968 Commission on Higher Education (U 68), which had tried to solve higher education problems of the 1960s and 1970s. Described is the report of a project that studied the reform's origins. (RM)

This paper investigates how the remuneration of education has evolved during 1982-98, the period of reform. This strand of literature documents an increased convexity of the earnings function; that is, the returns of one additional year of schooling rises with the years of completed schooling. The educational attainment of Brazil's labor force has…