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.…

Perhaps because educational achievement often has been associated with elite status, the organization and focus of education nearly everywhere in the modern era reflects international influences, some more forceful than others. In this era, with few exceptions, the direction of influence is from European core to southern periphery. Institutional…