In this article, the author argues that traditional college entrance requirements exercise a detrimental effect on other elements of the educational system. She begins by looking at the way that the entire K-12 system is skewed toward meeting the needs of those students headed for selective colleges and universities and the way less successful…

An attempt to detail the varied perceptions held by educators and those held by politicians. Provides the actual language they employ to justify their shared disdain. The composite quotations in the article help put the reader in "the other guy's shoes", and serve to modify behavior patterns, which help to narrow the chasm between these two key…

Teachers strike for economic and political reasons. (Author/IRT)

As a result of efforts to reform New Jersey's method of financing education, education has become enmeshed in state-level politics while, critics assert, little is being done to improve urban education. (Author/IRT)

In anticipating what educators might expect from President Reagan, the author examines the positions Reagan has taken as a practical politician, as a right winger, as a presidential candidate, and as a moderate. (IRT)

Recounts an instance in which Virginia politicians took over the writing and adoption of state history books. (IRT)

Offers a critique of the origins and policies of Jesse Jackson's Project EXCEL. (IRT)

Analyzes certain related historical developments, recent events, and current trends in order to measure their impact on education governance at the federal, state, and local levels. (Author/IRT)

Examines teacher organization involvement in politics at the state and federal level, particularly in collective bargaining issues. (IRT)

Outlines the five policy imperatives of the Reagan administration for education--diminution, deregulation, decentralization, disestablishment, and deemphasis. The authors predict that education will continue to decline in importance on the national political agenda. (Author/WD)

The fear that the new responsiveness to ethnicity is undermining what has been, on the whole, a success will not go away. Whatever their backgrounds, when students leave the school they must function in an English-speaking environment. (Author/IRT)

Sketches some educational, social, political, and economic trends that are likely to take place in the 1980s. (IRT)

Describes a business consultant's frustrated efforts to participate in the New American Schools Development Corporation's reform process. Instead of encouraging broad participation from business people, social scientists, learning theorists, parents, and others, NASDC confined its chief advisory panel to educators, eschewed creative…

Examines the efforts of conservative religious and political organizations to influence the schools. Argues that protection of inquiry in the classroom constitutes the first line of defense for the continuation of democracy during times of stress and change. (Author/IRT)