In his "Rethinking Domination and Resistance: Challenging Postmodernism" ("Educational Researcher," January-February, 2004), Aaron Schutz questioned what he saw as postmodernism's fascination with the workings of pastoral modes of control, a preoccupation that prevents postmodernists from locating and opposing the disciplinary controls experienced…

Addresses the frequent dilemmas confronted by those interested in performing ethnic research and also in having multiple responsibilities as ethnic scholars and mentors. It examines when ethnic-related research should begin, the imposition of special assignments by college administration because of cultural background, and some key points…

Expands on an ethnographic study of a California school district, examining how adults repeatedly asked how achievement was linked to race yet repeatedly suppressed the question, and exploring the role of educational research in the dynamics of talk and silence. An explanatory habit of framing isolated players as particularly responsible for…

Achievements cited for ESEA include that it broke the log jam on federal aid to education, spotted the needs of children, fueled other movements toward equality of educational opportunity, recruited quality personnel, promoted public-nonpublic cooperation, promoted parental and community involvement, and the evaluation/accountability movement.…

Critiques Hirsh's book, "The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them," which suggests that progressive education is rampant in today's school, and all students should learn important subject matter content that should be appropriately sequenced and uniformly paced, with achievement objectively measured. Critiques Hirsh's minimization…

Notes that before making claims for the large impact attributed to quantity of schooling--claims that are aimed at influencing policy decisions--its effects should be examined in a wide variety of school settings, with attention to individual student differences and to the importance of cumulative effects. (Author/AM)

Explores barriers to Hispanic women's (1) attainment of higher education, and (2) professional advancement as college and university faculty members. Focuses on the need to actively recruit Hispanics at the graduate level. (GC)

Asserts that minority group youth often manage tensions between ethnic and academic identities as they are positioned in relation to cultural practices within and outside of school. Recommends a three-strand framework to understand these emerging tensions and their management in the lives of minority youth: positioning in face-to-face…

Examines how to characterize commonalities in learning approaches of individuals from educationally underserved ethnic groups, disagreeing with the common assumption that regularities are static and individuals' general traits are attributable categorically to ethnicity. Suggests that a cultural-historical approach can help move beyond this…

Describes the development of Project Transformative Educational Achievement Model (TEAM), an instructional initiative intended to increase the numbers of diverse students at Indiana University who enter teacher education, graduate, and obtain teaching licensure in Indiana. Data from interviews, meta-comment papers, and student transcripts focus on…

Notes that an affirmative action plan for women in educational research should be a policy document, not simply a passive statement of principle including more than a statement for commitment, goals and timetables. (Author/AM)

Notes that even with the problems identified in this paper, consistent, positive results are appearing in preliminary reports. Equally important, the data seem to support a number of reasonable notions about the impact of distinctive curricula on students. (Author/AM)

The sexually charged "Kids" was one of the most controversial films about teenage sexuality and youth of 1995. The pessimism and one-dimensionality of the film foster a conservative pedagogy and politics that fail to break dominant discourse about subordinate youth in this country. (SLD)

Reviews "The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program" (John Witte), which examines the Milwaukee Parent Choice Program (MPCP) and describes school voucher politics that have focused significant national attention on the MPCP since its inception. Suggests that the book understates the inadequacies of…

Concludes that Asian Americans have been able to ameliorate bias largely through strong motivation for educational and occupational achievement, cohesive family structure in which harmony and responsibility are maintained, and adaptability to social environmental conditions. (Author/AM)