This study examined conformity to the Program Standards for Treatment Foster Care among 42 statewide programs. Findings suggest fair to good overall conformity, with considerable variation among programs. A discussion of methodological and substantive considerations for future research and evaluation using this approach is included. (Contains…

Discusses how school leaders are increasingly torn between pressures for conformity and for diversity, arguing that pressure toward conformity undermines schools' ability to respond to diversity and suggesting that school leaders challenge the confines of sameness while exploring conceptions of leadership that value differences. Four strategies…

Proponents of school uniforms claim many beneficial advantages: improved academic performance, student safety, discipline, and school morale. Opponents say uniform policies violate the First Amendment and will not dramatically improve student performance. School leaders must juggle two conflicting ideals of justice: a student's right to freedom of…

In England, multicultural education is one of the most important focal points within the ongoing educational debate. To answer questions of practical policy, multicultural education may be viewed from the perspective of education as social process. More than simply pupils and teachers, classrooms and textbooks, education provides social continuity…

This paper examines the argument that increased freedom of choice for students will rid education of undesirable coercion, compulsion, and conformity. Throughout her discussion, the author emphasizes that merely allowing a child to choose does not guarantee his capacity to choose. The capacity to choose presupposes not only the existence of…

In this book, multicultural education, book selection criteria, racism in specific books, and methods of handling racist materials are discussed from Chicano, Puerto Rican, Asian, Black and Native American perspectives. The 26 selections were written by librarians, anthropologists, community planners and educators. All of the articles expose…

Resistance to endorsing peer-sponsored misbehavior, judgments of the wrongness of such behavior, and attitudes toward self, mother, father, peers, and adults were measured for 174 children in four grades. The results support Bronfenbrenner's findings that American children resist more under the parent and less under the peer than under the neutral…

Western impressions of Japanese education are examined. Various aspects of Japanese art education--e.g., government control, a centralized school system, and standardized curriculum--and Japanese attitudes toward conformity are discussed. (RM)

Home schooling has a long cross-cultural history. Parents who teach their children at home have diverse characteristics and rationales: dissatisfaction with public schools, avoidance of conformity, freedom, or concern for their values. (SK)

The field of educational planning and research in at least one socialist country, Hungary, does not conform to the popular stereotype of rigidity and conformity, nor is Hungarian education unaffected by changes elsewhere in the economy. (BRR)

The Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) is criticized for confusing the distinction between achievement and attitudes, the distinction between citizenship and conformity, and failing to incorporate moral education. For journal availability see annotation SO 504 171. (Author/DE)

Discussed are the effects of discrimination and bias caused by conformity to sex roles. Strategies including classroom organization, system-wide response, and students activities are suggested for combating sex-role stereotyping within science and math classes. (Author/DS)

Comments on how traditional education promotes conformity and stifles creativity, on the history of humans' relationship with nature, on depleted energy capital, and on solar power and other alternate energy resources. Includes a poem on youth, flowers, and learning. (MH)

Reviews the development of preservice education for Malaysian Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) within the sociopolitical and sociocultural context, highlighting the pursuance of conformity within the context of cultural diversity and showing how institutional forms and processes frame the teaching profession's response to…

During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and…