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…

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)

The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare discusses the importance of effective relationships between government to public needs. (RW)

The Institute for Educational Leadership works with a volatile combination--legislators and educators--and with results that show both the better for it. (Editor)

Delinquent students are helped by a school district program to overcome their social and educational difficulties. (MF)

The recently retired head of the Education Commission of the States talks about accomplishments, disappointments, and some puzzlers for his successor. (Editor)

The director of the National Institute of Education talks of problems that vex education researchers and believes that a breakthrough is close at hand. (Editor)

Before a convention of educators in Washington recently, the President put forth some of his ideas on education and its role in our Nation's progress. (Editor)

This article is one of a series of commentaries and special features on educational development that will be presented in American Education over the next several months in connection with the observance of the American Revolution Bicentennial. (Editor/RK)

Asserts that self-discipline, the outgrowth of structure in schools, is a much more important factor in effective education than is often argued. Reconstruction of American schools will require awareness and analysis of schools as a set of experiences, a system of rewards and punishment, and as a structure. (JOW)

Author states that enactment of the All Handicapped Children Act "...will bring schools closer to the principles of democracy on which the nation was founded...", in that the practice of treating handicapped persons as second-class citizens will be abolished. Provisions of the bill are discussed in detail. (Author/RW)

Discusses the charge given to the National Commission on Excellence in Education by Secretary of Education T. H. Bell when he created it on August 26, 1981. Includes a summary of the report, "A Nation at Risk." (JOW)

Education research is, or should be, the systematic investigation and solution of critically important problems affecting what and how children learn. This is a complex undertaking, given the size and complexity of American education. Critically important educational problems can be dealt with by supporting a systematic, national effort to examine…

Makes suggestions regarding the responsibility of governors, lawmakers, board members, administrators, teachers, students, parents, representatives of higher education, the private sector, and the federal government to education in America. (JOW)