This article explores patterns in teachers' reported correction of student language use in speech and writing. The authors use the concept of language correction in student writing and student speech as a proxy for prescriptive approaches to teaching about language. By conducting a large-scale survey of all language and literacy teachers from…

Analysis of NELS88 data found that parent involvement in schools varied little by place of residence. Negligible effects of control variables suggest that parent involvement is elusive, perhaps evoked prematurely to remedy low achievement in impoverished rural schools. Efforts to remove small schools from their local communities run counter to the…

Reflects on education in China in light of the changing Communist world. Focuses on the tension among four competing educational goals--economic modernization, education as a universal right, recruitment of elites, and dissemination of ideology--while addressing problems in rural education, literacy education, teacher training, educational…