Teacher education in the visual arts in Canada has passed through a creative, golden age and is now in a critical period. The expansionist period of the 1960s and 1970s has passed, giving way to cutbacks and restraints. Possible scenarios are discussed. (RM)

Explanations of growth in American school enrollment point to rural-cultural beliefs or urban-economic antecedents. Examined is the influence of job opportunity structure on school enrollment separately for states and cities and between males and females. Both explanations were found to have validity, but more research on regional variation is…

Explores the assumptions underlying the use of composition textbooks based on nineteenth-century forms and modes of discourse: description, narration, exposition, and argumentation. Presents alternatives to this approach, developed from schema theory and developmental psychology. (HTH)

A teacher at a private school in Bethesda, Maryland, recounts what a private school was like when she was a student in the early 1950s. (Author/RK)

The introduction of sex education into the French school curriculum has had reverberations beyond more curricular reform. Indeed, the changes of 1973/74 constitute a fascinating case-study both of the dynamics of curricular change in a centralized system and of the impact of external social pressures on schools. (Author/RK)

President Ford discusses budget proposals for education, the complexity of federal education programs, and the alarming trend toward citizen apathy about the workings of government. He calls for renewed emphasis on the teaching of social values and the strengths of democracy. (Editor)

Five teachers from four cities, Chicago, Hattiesburg, San Francisco, and Detroit, present their views of desegregation. (Editor/RK)

A historical review of teacher education development in Nigeria from 1890 to the present covers periods of experimentation, reorganization, and consolidation and independence. The lack of progress as well as the national potential for solving the problems are noted. (LBH)

Part one of a three part report on the historical development of curriculum guidelines for the instruction of chemistry in secondary schools. Part one covers the period 1893-1920. Parts two and three appear in November and December issues of School Science and Mathematics. (SL)

Based on the author's personal experiences during the past decade, problems of innovation, diffusion, and adoption of social studies materials are examined as hindering change. (ND)

Explored are the trends which mark the social history of the school superintendency from the Victorian ideal of heroic leadership to the 20th century tradition of broader sources of ideology. Stressed are occupational socialization, the modern quest for new sources of professional authority, and the administrative conflict between acting as…

Presented is a history of American students in Germany prior to 1870 and an assessment of the influence of these students who returned to the United States to fashion institutions of higher learning and to establish the criteria of higher learning in the humanities. (Author/DB)

The history of domestic science training in Australia and attitudes concerning the need and employment of domestics was discussed. (RK)

Advancements in higher education for women since colonial times, during the appearance of female academies, and as a result of the establishment of land grant colleges are reviewed. (LBH)