Literature review examines school effectiveness research in developing countries, focusing on why Third World research has not used analytic techniques applied in industrialized countries, how school effectiveness and school improvement approaches differ, which indicators are used, use of multilevel analysis in Third World research, and how to…

Gail Kelly's research on women's education in developing nations enriched scholarship on improving women's quality of life through education. Main strands of inquiry examined how school processes and curricula affect women's educational outcomes (versus men's), the false bifurcation of private and public spheres of women's lives, and how women's…

Gail Kelly's work on colonial education in Indochina and French West Africa focused on the importance of studying schooling in its social context, called for the integrative study of schooling processes as a more productive approach than traditional input-output models, and examined the relationship between education and social change in colonial…

A former graduate student of Gail Kelly reminisces about her insistence that her students ask the right questions after first examining their own assumptions. Kelly's work in developing countries examined the ways in which the school experiences of boys and girls differed and how the "hidden curriculum" of educational systems perpetuated the…

Reviews two books that seek to define the nature and direction of Russian educational reform: "School Reform between 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow'" (Eduard D. Dneprov, Russian Minister of Education, 1990-92) and "Russia: Education in the Transition" (Stephen P. Heyneman of the World Bank). Criticizes their unrealistic assumptions about politics,…

This paper considered the usefulness of the preponderantly 'manpower requirements' premises relied upon by the Committee, judgments made about present and prospective distribution of education among different age groups and status levels in Sweden and some implications of proposals for spatial and administrative reorganization of higher education.…

Article considered an outline of the problem of providing a school curriculum that focuses on productive labor, illustrating the argument primarily with data from Kenya. (Author/RK)

In this paper an attempt was made to examine the thesis of Nicholas Hans (a further development of Weber's thesis) on the relationship between religious affiliation and educational achievement using the Soviet Union as an example. (Author)

Article focused on the underlying differences between social groups in India, the great diversity in Indian national life and the problem of searching for solutions through education. (Author/RK)

Described the efforts of international agencies - among them are the Organization for European Cooperation and Development, the Council for Cultural Cooperation of the Council of Europe, and the Directorate for Research, Science and Education of the European Economic Communities - to develop a European education system. (RK)

The purpose of this paper is to consider against the background of the current situation of the Black in American schools, two questions: what insight does literature give to the present position and future prospect of Negro education and secondly do these insights suggest parallels in other societies? (Author)

This study has focused on the use of language in the United Republic of Cameroon and on individual bilingualism with consideration of the social and political repercussions of social practices and educational policy. (RK)

This research studied the evolution in the numbers of female students in France and Germany over a hundred years or so, compared them, and tried to interpret them in a manner valid for each country. (Author/RK)

Author attempted to move from interpretations, which are sometimes indistinguishable from motivations, to the actual social meaning of appeals for cultural revolution, and finally to the question of education as a component of generalized change processes. (Author/RK)

This paper attempts to pursue the centralization-decentralization dilemma. A setting for this discussion is provided by noting some of the uses of terminology, followed by a consideration of inherent difficulties in conceptualizing. (Author)