Suggests that teacher educators need to examine how they and their students approach the discourse of race and how they might be conveying contradictory messages about teaching students of different backgrounds. Cautions teacher educators to undertake a critical interrogation of preservice pedagogy. (SK)

Examines high schools with and without shared decision making in terms of interests, ideology, information, and the institution. Finds that institutions strongly influenced teachers' willingness to innovate and that they tended to ignore external information sources that would mediate that influence. Principals had more latitude to be reform…

Poststructural feminist analysis of total quality management postulates (quality is defined by customer satisfaction, quality is reduction of variation, quality must be measurable) suggests that their application in higher education gives more support to traditional values than to valuing of diversity. (SK)

Calls for an understanding of how time interconnects with the classroom by reviewing the interdependence of the space-time continuum, by addressing the role of personal history in influencing teacher-student relationships, and by advocating curricula that connect to the realities of student lives. (SK)

The framework of microeconomics is used to account for the short lives of most merit pay plans. The authors demonstrate that teaching is not an activity that satisfies the conditions under which performance-based pay is an efficient method of compensating workers. (Author/CT)

Matching almost 47,000 men and women on type of math course taken and grade received, women scored about 33 points lower on the Scholastic Aptitude Test-Mathematics than men who had taken the same course and received the same grade. Sex differences call into question the validity of the SAT as a predictor of college math performance. (SK)