Today, e-learning and various online education applications are used in many countries and educational institutions than ever before. Ethics deals with the principle governing ideal or good behavior, it focuses on what is right or what is wrong. Although in education, the ethical issues that they may be facing are not about of life and death…

It is often argued that as "consumers" of higher education, students, parents and leaders need objective, comparative information generated through systematized assessment. In response, we critique this trend toward reductionist, comparative, and ostensibly objective assessments in the United States. We describe how management has…

In 1918, just one year before the founding of American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Thorstein Veblin wrote, "In one shape or another, this problem of adjustment, reconciliation or compromise between the needs of higher learning and the demands of the business enterprise is forever present in the deliberations of the university…

An assistant principal comments on the loss of standards and criticizes the schools for a false reverence for the word change.'' (Author/SP)

The solution to meeting change is for education to set for itself the goal of constancy: the development of those values and goals which develop the humaneness which is innate within each human being. (Author)

This book is divided into four parts: (1) Development and the minds of men, (2) Development: alpha and omega, (3) The cross-roads, and (4) Unesco at work: three places, three functions and a state of mind. Development theory and practice involves evaluation and judgment on the good society, on the good life for men and nations. In its broadest…

Educators in the humanities field should strive to teach people how to cope with the rules of society. (CK)

Disillusionment with this society's basic institutions is not the sole domain of the young. During this crisis in leadership, the author advocates renewing and extending "... a sense of balance and proportion in attaining higher standards..." (Editor)

A selection from Values in Transition: A Handbook", its thesis is that formal education...has an obligation to educate broadly along lines of the intellectual, emotional, and social components, notjust the intellectual one per se." (Author)

The impact of the accountability movement is examined in terms of the defensiveness which such programs have caused among educators and its emphasis on what schools cannot do rather than what they can do. (JMF)

There are many commonalities between the life-styles and values of American Indians and the profession of social work, yet social work and its practice and educational institutions to a large extent have failed to reach America's most deprived minority group. (Editor/KE)

The author looks at a major aim of education, for which there are no standardized achievement tests. She proposes a model for teachers to work on. (Editor)

States that most experimental, quantitative, statistical research in education is useless and even misleading or erroneous, because educational quality cannot be measured by quantitative analysis. Author urges educators to refer to literature, philosophy, history, and above all, common sense and experience, to make their own evaluations. (RW)