Discusses the social role of education. Describes how students and faculty of the School of Education at the University of California at Santa Barbara used "Ground Zero Week" to organize and carry out a communitywide, nonpartisan, educational series of teach-ins on nuclear war issues. (RW)

A review of 19 recently published, secondary-level United States and world history textbooks found only brief coverage of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan) bombings, slight attention to the arms race and disarmament, and concentration on scientific and technical developments behind the atomic bomb rather than on its effects. (Author/RW)

The author of "A Study of Schooling," following up an article in the March "Phi Delta Kappan," notes the noncorrelation of school satisfaction with teaching methods or curriculum; discusses educational goals; examines schools' concentration on noneducational factors; and recommends changes in goal-setting, school-level planning, and school…

Recounts the beginnings of multiethnic education in the 1960s, when criticism focused on teaching and textbooks. Describes the mid-1970s expansion of multicultural education, with its problems of fragmentary, unsystematic practice and discusses the challenges to multiethnic education in the 1980s from both economic and ideological pressures. (RW)

Summarizes the sociopolitical and pedagogical debates over bilingual and bicultural education. Reviews research findings on the effects of bilingual education, discusses issues concerning public expenditures for bilingual programs and the effects of language on social cohesion and academic failure, and advocates adopting an official national…

Multiethnic and global education, although they have separate histories and identities, have similar goals and content, including four areas of mutual interest: the meaning of groups and group membership, group image formation, perspectives, and intercultural communication. However, they sometimes compete with one another for time in crowded…

Argues that the U.S. record on desegregation since the "Brown" decision is disappointing and that the courts should have concentrated on improving the quality of Black education and Blacks' access to decision making. Suggests that integration, in a society committed to White dominance, will never ensure equal educational opportunity. (Author/RW)

Europe's need for multiethnic education results both from its multiplicity of historical ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups and from the more recent immigration of foreign workers. While national and supranational programs have been developed, relatively little money has been invested in them and multicultural curriculums have not been…

In Wainwright, a small Eskimo village on the North Slope of Alaska, there is little relationship between education and future prospects. The result is low academic achievement. (Author)

Multiethnic education requires that the total school environment be changed so that students from diverse ethnic and racial groups will experience educational equality. Because of inconclusive data and hypotheses on the education of poor and ethnic minority youths, policies for the changes must be guided primarily by our values. (Author/RW)

Describes the cluster program in District 11, New York City, which brings parent and school staff representatives together. Lists the cluster groups' focuses, reviews several innovations suggested by the groups (including an interschool visitation program), and compares the clusters to Japanese "quality circles." (RW)

Recounts the case of "Turk v. Franklin Special School District" in Tennessee, in which the board's dismissal of a teacher was reversed by the Tennessee Supreme Court because the board failed to follow its own dismissal procedures and because the particular drunk driving conviction did not warrant dismissal. (RW)

A survey of 381 female college students with interests or majors in elementary- or secondary-level teaching found that college experience did not change or broaden their career goals. Further, the percentage who expected career goals to become secondary to familial goals increased the farther ahead they predicted their futures. (RW)

Starting on the back cover, this fictional account describes the beginning of a day in "basic training" for a young banker in the twenty-first century who has been drafted by the federal government in its national "teacher draft" to improve teaching quality. (RW)

Responding to the past decade of educational reform, the author points out how state legislation in the 1970s tightened state control and now in the 1980s the Department of Education's educational reform implementations may increase federal control of education. Addresses the issue of educational quality in response to legislated reform. Includes…