A consultant in talented and gifted education shares excerpts from letters written to her by teachers in the former U.S.S.R. These moving accounts of everyday struggles in a harsh, unpredictable environment show that the world has grown smaller and its inhabitants more interdependent. (MLH)

Although Hungary's 1989 political transformation gave new credibility to existing policies, it did not necessarily translate into an understanding of participatory decision making or enthusiasm for school reform. Beyond the rhetoric are two dramatic curricular alterations: removal of the Marxist ideology infusing each discipline and elimination of…

Jinfa Cai's study comparing Chinese and American sixth-grade students' mathematics performance found that American students did better on simple and complex problems than on computation. One reason might be Asian countries' stress on rote learning. Paul George's 1995 monograph "Japanese Schools: A Closer Look" found instruction uninspiring and…

Summarizes a complex sex abuse case in a Texas district that turned on a teacher's failure to report a coach's misdeeds to the proper authorities. The appeals court, which found for the teacher, concluded that the missing ingredient was control. The child-abuse reporting statute did not empower a teacher with legal control over the coach's…

Empowering teachers to collaborate on schoolwide tasks and to work with one another on becoming more effective requires a new, more collegial administrator-teacher relationship. Factors such as time management, voluntary participation, power sharing, active administrator participation, and meaningful focus are important. (MLH)

A shortened version of a commencement address delivered at Saint Louis University, May 31, 1969

A condensation of a paper presented at a Phi Delta Kappa-Temple University Symposiu.

A federal secretary of education would be more like a school board chairman than he would a superintendent of schools. (Author/IRT)

Describes a new package of instructional materials on environmental education that uses materials from environmentalists and from industry. (IRT)

The social literacy approach attempts to determine the systemic causes of discipline problems. (IRT)

Describes the purpose and tests used in a statewide study to assess the performance of Puerto Rican students in grades 7-12 on a series of learning goals deemed relevant to the needs of these students. (Author/IRT)

Describes a program that uses test scores in such a way that