Describes the problems and procedures one school district has in communicating to the public and its need to find a system to gather and disseminate information about the school so that knowledgeable choices can be made regarding a proposed voucher plan. (Author/DN)

Describes what has happened and what may happen to the bilingual education movement. Explains how Congress, the courts, State governments, and education associations are wrestling with the problem. (Author/DN)

Attempts to analyze what happened to the high hopes for ESEA Title III and how its original direction can be modified to achieve its original goal of promoting beneficial change in American education while lessening the time between development of new teaching practices and their adoption in the classroom. Considers the specific impact of ESEA…

Relates how an English professor set out to offer Thoreau as a survival kit for our difficult time'' at strike-riven San Francisco State College. (Author)

Contains a comment rebutting earlier articles (see EA 503 995 and EA 503 731) concerned with the controversy over the ways and means to achieve equal educational opportunity. A reply by the original author is included. (Author/DN)

Specific suggestions to educators who wish to transform their schools into social communities. Draws primarily on a previous work that broached the concept of a therapeutic community'' approach (See Kappan, May '72). Opts for taking seriously the school function as a social community and the changes in structure and attitudes required for…

Reviews what school districts are doing to cope with reduced enrollments and increased costs. Areas covered include shared facilities, reduction in force, and school closing. (IRT)

Abandonment of the comprehensive high school and our unitary school system in favor of a divided system can only lead to an even more divided society. (Author)

Provides a brief history of the issues involved in the case in which the Perchemlides family took the Amherst, Massachusetts school superintendent to court to win the right to educate its children at home. (IRT)

This article establishes a working definition of dissemination, identifies existing dissemination and practitioner networks, and proposes ways in which these networks can be brought together. (Author)

Reviews some of the issues involved in the recent surge in censorship activity and lists some sources of help for teachers and librarians who want to resist censorship. (IRT)

Standardized test instruments inherently and systematically impose limitations on experiential-cognitive relevance, especially in reinforcing the convenient separation of individual aptitudes from the total development and socialization of a child. (Author/IRT)

Most of the critical problems faced by the U.S. are the same problems other nations face. The important role to be played by education in curing the world's ills is recognized elsewhere--often more vividly than in America. (Author/IRT)

Outlines the concepts in and the implications for educators of the Club of Rome's new study, "No Limits to Learning: Bridging the Human Gap," which asserts that the human learning system lies at the heart of the world's troubles and at the heart of the answer to those troubles. (Author/IRT)

Describes the San Jose (California) Teacher Involvement Project which included teachers in building-level decision making on instructional matters. (IRT)