Background: Because of school districts' interest in best serving the health needs of students, many choose to administer surveys addressing controversial topics. Administering such surveys in a voluntary and anonymous manner may help reduce conflict. Methods: This is a review of 2 recent federal court of appeals decisions regarding surveying…

Shows how different relations between the adult and child and the learning environments they engender are closely related to the attitudes which the adult has developed within his/her own culture. Examines the conflicts inherent in education, which endeavors to transmit cultural values and promote personal growth at the same time. (AYC)

Recommends six steps to improve the quality of public education: (1) reestablish schools as learning places, (2) make teachers responsible for the program of studies, (3) permit those responsible for performance quality to remove inadequate teachers, (4) don't remove students from school unless it's essential, (5) have a common goal, and (6) stop…

Argues that advances in research on child development and learning provide a base for improving the nurturance of all children. Topics discussed include the craft of parenting; parenting functions; the educational role of the family; preparation, education, and support for parenthood; and child development research and implications for…

The integration of testing and learning are discussed as urgent tasks for test developers, examiners, and guidance specialists. The implications of Edmonds' concept of educational equity (see TM 506 980) and Krumboltz's view of the role of testing in guidance (see TM 506 981) are analyzed. (CM)

Examines the concepts of and relationship between responsibility and authority. Identifies seven characteristics of educational systems (authority, interdependence, the unified whole, goals, evaluation, correction, and knowledge) as central to an analysis of educational responsibility. Suggests restructuring the educational system on a…

The author develops the opinion that schools must be restricted to the enterprise of learning and that politics should be practiced elsewhere. He also discusses what the research priorities in the 1980s should be for education. (CT)

Offers a pledge for teachers who would affirm their opposition to the industrialization of the schools and affirm the teacher's role as advocate on behalf of students. (Author/RH)

The author argues that universities, and specifically their vocational education departments, need to become far more involved in the nation's Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) efforts than they are presently. He contends that to ignore the CETA system would seriously violate the responsibilities attendant to the university's three…

Educators bear the responsibility to continually nurture the natural and biological optimism inherent in their students. (LH)

Examines the history of peace education in Sweden, beginning with the 1870s, when the continental peace movement started taking hold in Sweden, and moving through the 20th century as various resolutions and initiatives supporting peace education began. A characteristic of the movement was deep confidence in education as an effective instrument for…

Focuses on the covenant into which postmodern educators must enter, mingling old and new. Outlines four passages of the author's life to illustrate educational experience: education within the family; education as an undergraduate; education as a young educator; and education in a job away from education. Discusses lessons for educators to learn…

Considers the nature of today's changing society in order to determine how writing centers can continue to be viable parts of academia. Discusses issues such as helping students integrate technology into their writing processes, and present and future demographic changes. (NH)

Teacher education must create a theory of knowledge that can analyze social fractures, social violence, and how to make psychological significance from devastation. Referring to philosophers who were concerned with relationships between teacher education and social reparation, the paper advocates for a view of teacher education that can tolerate…

What is it to learn for an unknown future? It might be said that the future has always been unknown but our opening question surely takes on a new pedagogical challenge if not urgency in the contemporary age. Indeed, it could be said that our opening question has never been generally acknowledged to be a significant motivating curricular and…