Discusses (1) arguments for considerable homework, (2) arguments for minimal homework, (3) research related to homework, and (4) homework's place in the discussion of basic education. (FL)

Argues that high school principals should work to bring the business world and the business education department closer together in order to improve the quality of education. (FL)

This article describes the back-to-basics and humanistic education movements and concludes that it is crucial to maintain the balance between the two, that both have intrinsic merit. The de-emphasis of either is an abdication of the responsibility schools assume and an injustice to the children they serve. (Author/KC)

The developments in electronic technologies over the coming decades will make reading, writing, and arithmetic less important skills for all of us. As more children learn more outside of school--thanks, largely, to the nonprint media--educational institutions could find themselves with less and less to do. (Author/SJL)

Two years after the implementation of Florida's Educational Accountability Act, which mandates statewide competency testing in reading, writing, and arithmetic, the author cites the advantages of the program, refutes criticisms of it and reviews the challenge to it in Federal District court, the Debra P. V. Turlington case. (SJL)