Advocates teaching humanistic elements such as parents' history, individual uniqueness, potentiality, awareness, learning, new experiences, communication, and truth in discovery. (BJD)

Cites a few of the outstanding changes in California's school operation, as well as the benefits accrued from these changes, to support the contention that public school systems are improving and that the future of public education has never been brighter. (Author/MP)

Argues that, despite the plethora of federal, state, and local policies that now affect children, there is not (and never has been) a conscious national policy toward them except one: that all children should attend school until a state-mandated age. Offers, from the perspective of private education, nine recommendations for creating an…