The research summarized and reported contradicts the view that schooling makes little difference and that its improvement in quality and equality of opportunity lies beyond our reach. (Author)

Originally designed to meet the needs of students at international schools forced to pursue their education across national frontiers, the International Baccalaureate provides an integrated course of study and set of examinations that follow the classical liberal approach to education, emphasizing a balance of scientific studies and the…

Teaching and instruction are the prime mission of schools of education, with research occupying a position of approximately equal stature only in the research center institutions. Other mission areas are perceived by faculty as not central to schools of education. (Author)

High school job training programs are useful to the students enrolled in them. If such programs are to be even more effective, they should provide the students with more experience, more information about related jobs, and up-to-date tools. (Author)

An early visitor to reunified Viet Nam offers his impressions of education in that country. (IRT)

A highly competitive environment has spawned an unsanctioned system of private preparatory schools that attracts 60 percent of Japan's junior high students. (Author/IRT)

The author offers an argument for organized inculcation of moral values into students. (IRT)

The author discusses his experiences in a black college and a graduate program at M.I.T., and how his career goals changed with his experiences. (IRT)

That the high school social norms and the psychological egocentrism of the teacher are the major causal factors in a no-growth curriculum is a reasonable assumption. (Author)

Examines professional growth, tenure limitations, and early retirement as methods of balancing age groups in the professoriate. (IRT)

Examines some of the issues that came out of a three-day national conference sponsored by the National School Volunteer Program, Inc. (IRT)