Attacked from the right and the left, and abandoned by political moderates, education is in a decline that threatens the survival of American democracy. (Editor)

The issue is what the schools can and should do to achieve what we proclaim to be our historic political goals: freedom, equality, justice, and community. (Author/IRT)

Political events in 1902 and 1917 in the Netherlands affirmed parity subsidizing of private and public elementary schools. The history of those events, centering on educational policy, and their effect on the future of politics and education are explored in this article. (JH)

Discusses how Paulo Freire's philosophy and educational methods were influenced by social conditions in Brazil. The impact of political conditions, Catholic intellectual thought, and social radicalism on Freire is examined. (AM)

Policies in Chinese education, especially higher education, have undergone major shifts since 1949 in response to general swings in Chinese policy, ideological debates, and leaders. The shifts have been between education as a party device to sustain revolutionary values and education as a government instrument to promote modernization. (MSE)

The relative calm among students in France in the 1970s is explained in terms of the institutionalization of politics within the university, increased diversity on campus, and the relatively increasing returns of higher education. Conflicts of the 1970s are characterized as corporalistic-particularistic-materialistic. (JMF)

A large number of potential army recruits were rejected during the Boer War as physically unfit. The health of school children became a matter of wide public concern, and out of this debate a new role emerged for physical education in State schools. (Author/SJL)

Argues that the spread of public education, especially in the North and West, took place through a series of nation-building social, political, and religious movements. Data show the absence of positive effects of urban industrialism on enrollments. (Author/KC)

Examines the effect of Nigerianization, the appointment of qualified Nigerians to higher and responsible posts both in government and educational sectors, on Nigerian Universities. (Author/RK)

Argues that Rutgers University administrators participated in obfuscating the political nature of the 1935 dismissal of Lienhard Bergel, a German-born professor, whose anti-Nazi views alienated him from Friedrich Hauptmann, department head, also German-born, and avowedly pro-Nazi. Analyzes Hauptmann's central role and hearings testimony. Charges…

The history of the university in British Commonwealth Africa and of the University of Zimbabwe since the country's independence in 1980 gives insight into why the institution is susceptible to outside political influence. Recent trends in policymaking at the national level are examined. (MSE)

Statistics on college students in Czechoslovakia before November 1989 are presented, and a survey of 320 students after the massive political upheaval is reported. The survey assessed student views on the new social, economic, and political situation, the status and changes in higher education, changes in higher education funding, and future…

Traces history of foreign language instruction (predominantly Russian as a result of former Soviet political domination) in the German Democratic Republic prior to unification. Russian instruction, as a tool for ideological control, emphasized receptive skills such as lexis and morphology. Explains changes in content and methods in foreign…