Focus on textbooks, not class size, poor countries are regularly told as they seek to improve education quality. Yet, at the same time, with strong support from professional educators, the voters of the U.S. state of California approved massive expenditures to reduce the size of classes that in global terms were already quite small. These…

Explains that as globalization expands the forces of the market, information technologies are pervading the educational arena. States that one instance, the Knowledge Management System (KMS), proposes to produce retrievable materials via the Internet and hypertext and seeks to provide highly selected and targeted knowledge. Includes references.…

Examines deteriorating living conditions, health, and education in Africa, and increased economic dependence of African governments on international "donors" demanding "structural adjustment" policies that reduce public expenditures. Discusses arrogant triumphalism of the United States and international financial institutions,…

The conjunction of development funding and educational research in Africa and the dominating role of a single agency, the World Bank, have consequences for research and educational policy: structuring of research according to agency constructs and policies, legitimation of poorly supported propositions, lack of critical review, a fixation on…