Abstracts
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering?:
Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy
Elizabeth Ellsworth
The Influences of Salaries and "Opportunity Costs" on Teachers' Career Choices:
Evidence from North Carolina
Richard J. Murnane, Judith D. Singer, and John B. Willett
The University of Puerto Rico's Partnership Project with Schools:
A Case Study for the Analysis of School Improvement
Ana Helvia Quintero
"Yanoosh Who-o-o?":
On the Discovery of Greatness
Edwin P. Kulawiec
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The University of Puerto Rico's Partnership Project with Schools:
A Case Study for the Analysis of School Improvement
Recent reform initiatives by the Puerto Rican Department of Education are examined and found to be inadequate because they are based on a faulty view of education as a closed, rational system. The University of Puerto Rico's Partnership Project with Schools is described.