This article, taken from the Effective Schools Development in Education Act of 1984, describes the effective schools movement and sketches a representative example of an effective schools program. It also gives the aims of the proposed act and urges more research on the dynamics of school effectiveness program implementation and impact. (RDN)

Holds that Federal deregulation and the return of educational finance and decision making to the local level will exacerbate, rather than begin to solve, the nation's educational problems. (GC)

Analyzes similarities and differences between the educational views of so-called New Right and centrist conservatives. Holds that New Right policies would be an unmitigated disaster for our schools and society, while centrist policies would simply fail on several grounds. (CJM)