Argues that the emergence of digital marketplaces for learning has broad implications for the standardization and commercialization of education. Defines the concept of the virtual university and discusses how traditional institutions could be reconceived by adopting an alternative model. (PEN)

Reviews the author's experiences with white students during courses taught by him in Afro-American history at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, between 1969 and 1972. Concludes that "such black studies as that at Cleveland State University have reached significant numbers of white, specifically ethnic, students." (Author/JM)

Examines the aspects of Stowe's background which impelled her to participate in the education of Freedmen in Florida after her family moved there in the 1860s. Notes that this brief period of educational and religious service to blacks has been little noted by her biographers although it may offer the best measure of her feeling for the ex-slave.…

Proposes that metropolitan colleges be established to give disadvantaged inner city youth the cultural experiences that they would not otherwise have. The metropolitan college is seen "as an institution whose central purpose is the education of young people by any and all means necessary." (Author/JM)

Examines the salaries of full-time faculty at the University of North Florida to determine if differences exist between salaries for white faculty and black faculty, and determines the extent to which black and white faculty differ in productivity. No evidence of discrimination against blacks is found. (Author/JM)

Uses a wide range of data from nineteenth-century Massachusetts to assess two schools of thought that attempt to link the coincidence between the industrial revolution and the development of mass public schooling in the United States. (Editor/RK)

Historians and social researchers have viewed social policy in America as primarily concerned with issues of equality. Argues that an equally important theme--a sense of loss--has gone largely unnoticed. Examines the role of loss in the historical development of social policy for public education. (Editor/RK)

In this study of San Francisco's experience with desegregation, the author examines the political background that led to recourse to the federal district court, the constitutional context within which the case was decided, and the implementation of the decision. (Editor/RK)

Describes the inadequacies of the present grading system and offers a new model, based upon intrinsic rather than extrinsic evaluation. Attempts to root this intrinsic evaluation system in a standard which is more clearcut than the letter-grade model and therefore less subject to grade inflation. (Editor/RK)

Traces the extent to which black men and women have protested conditions like discrimination, segregation, poverty, the lack of jobs, etc. during the full course of the two hundred years since the birth of the U.S. (Author/AM)

Reviews the history of black education in America, emphasizes its corollary virtues of self-help, self-reliance, and self-determination, and assesses their implications for the future. (Author)

Highlights the past and present plight of blacks and delineates a set of economic imperatives for the economic situation for America's blacks. (Author/AM)

Provides a sociological discourse on how black Americans have related to higher education and educational opportunities during the past two hundred years. (Author)

Notes that the Afro-Americans' struggle for equality during the second century has been waged on many fronts: education, jobs, housing, public accommodations, voting rights, and human dignity, among others. (Author)

Argues that a rich and controversial chapter in the history of the history of education has been forgotten in the zeal to get on with the "new" history. Contends that historians need to come to terms with the struggles, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, between those who would make the field purely functional and those who would make it an…