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1979

Spring 1979
Meaning in Context
Is There Any Other Kind?
Elliot G. Mishler
Family Matters
Joseph Featherstone
Open Admissions and Equal Access
A Study of Ethnic Groups in the City University of New York
David E. Lavin, Richard D. Alba, Richard A. Silberstein
Essay Reviews
Further Comment
On Reading, Language, and Learning
Frank R. Vellutino
Spring
Meaning in Context
Elliot G. Mishler
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Summer 1979
Foundations, United States Foreign Policy, and African Education, 1945-1975
Edward H. Berman
Responses to Edward H. Berman
School Busing in Britain
Policies and Perceptions
Lewis M. Killian
The Sensitivity of Measures of School Effectiveness
George F. Madaus, Thomas Kellaghan, Ernest A. Rakow, Denis J. King
Summer
The Sensitivity of Measures of School Effectiveness
George F. Madaus, Thomas Kellaghan, Ernest A. Rakow, Denis J. King
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Fall 1979
Either We're Too Early and They Can't Learn It or We're Too Late and They Know It Already
The Dilemma of "Applying Piaget"
Eleanor Duckworth
Minority-Admissions Programs after Bakke
John Sexton
The Application of Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development to Education
Deanna Kuhn
Ideology and United States History Textbooks
Jean Anyon
Fall
Ideology and United States History Textbooks
Jean Anyon
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Winter 1979
Foreword
Lynne Templeton Brickley, Gloria Garfunkel, Donna Hulsizer
Introduction
The First Decade of Women's Studies
Florence Howe
Feminist Criticism of the Social Sciences
Marcia Westkott
Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle
Carol Gilligan
The Rediscovery of the Need for a Feminist Medical Education
Mary Roth Walsh
Sexism and Self-Healing in the University
Linda L. Nielsen
Sex Differences in Educational Attainment
A Cross-National Perspective
Jeremy D. Finn, Loretta Dulberg, Janet Reis
An Interview on Title IX with Shirley Chisholm, Holly Knox, Leslie R. Wolfe, Cynthia G. Brown, and Mary Kaaren Jolly
Winter
Feminist Criticism of the Social Sciences
Marcia Westkott
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1978

Spring 1978
A New Perspective on the Effects of First-Grade Teachers on Children's Subsequent Adult Status
Eigil Pedersen, Thérèse Annette Faucher, William W. Eaton
Structuring School Structure
Hugh Mehan
The Crime of Precocious Sexuality
Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era
Steven Schlossman, Stephanie Wallach
Spring
The Crime of Precocious Sexuality
Steven Schlossman, Stephanie Wallach
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Summer 1978
Perspectives on the Follow Through Evalution
No Simple Answer
Critique of the Follow Through Evaluation
Ernest R. House, Gene V Glass, Leslie D. McLean, Decker F. Walker
Pardon Us, But What Was the Question Again?
A Response to the Critique of the Follow Through Evaluation
Richard B. Anderson, Robert G. St. Pierre, Elizabeth C. Proper, Linda B. Stebbins
Follow Through Redux
A Response to the Critique by House, Glass, McLean, and Walker
Carl E. Wisler, Gerald P. Burns, Jr., David Iwamoto
The Worth of the Follow Through Experience
Walter L. Hodges
Understanding the Equity Consequences of School-Finance Reform
Lee S. Friedman, Michael Wiseman
Individualism, Collectivism, and Radical Educational Reform
Elizabeth Cagan
Essay Reviews
Summer
No Simple Answer
Ernest R. House, Gene V Glass, Leslie D. McLean, Decker F. Walker
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Fall 1978
The Learning-Disabilities Test Battery
Empirical and Social Issues
Gerald S. Coles
A New Look at the Literacy Campaign in Cuba
Jonathan Kozol
The Case Against Statistical Significance Testing
Ronald P. Carver
Fall
The Case Against Statistical Significance Testing
Ronald P. Carver
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Winter 1978
Reforming School Politics
David K. Cohen
Literacy without Schooling
Testing for Intellectual Effects
Sylvia Scribner, Michael Cole
Making Sense of the Competency Testing Movement
Walt Haney, George Madaus
Winter
Making Sense of the Competency Testing Movement
Walt Haney, George Madaus
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1977

Spring 1977
Some Comparative Principles of Educational Stratification
Randall Collins
"College Enthusiasm!" As Public Response, 1800-1860
David P. Potts
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Judgment
A Constructive Critique
John C. Gibbs
Spring
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Judgment
John C. Gibbs
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Summer 1977
Law, Politics, and Equal Educational Opportunity
The Limits of Judicial Involvement
David L. Kirp
Bilingual Education
The Legal Mandate
Herbert Teitelbaum, Richard J. Hiller
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation
Implementing Special-Education Reform
Richard Weatherley, Michael Lipsky
Social Relations as Contexts for Learning in School
R. P. McDermott
Summer
Law, Politics, and Equal Educational Opportunity
David L. Kirp
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Fall 1977
Introduction
Eugene Radwin, Maryanne Wolf-Ward
Foreword
Helen Popp
From Utterance to Text
The Bias of Language in Speech and Writing
David R. Olson
Two Functions of Language
Carol Fleisher Feldman
Trends in Second-Language-Acquisition Research
Kenji Hakuta, Herlinda Cancino
Learning about Psycholinguistic Processes by Analyzing Oral Reading
Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman
Alternative Conceptualizations of Dyslexia
Evidence in Support of a Verbal-Deficit Hypothesis
Frank R. Vellutino
An Interactionist Approach to Advancing Literacy
Nan Elsasser, Vera P. John-Steiner
The Nature of Literacy
An Historical Exploration
Daniel P. Resnick, Lauren B. Resnick
Making Sense of Reading—And of Reading Instruction
Frank Smith
Varieties of Deficiency in the Reading Processes
Magdalen D. Vernon
Reading Reconsidered
Thomas Wolf
Fall
Two Functions of Language
Carol Fleisher Feldman
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Winter 1977
In a Different Voice
Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality
Carol Gilligan
Teaching Reading and Language to the Disadvantaged
What We Have Learned from Field Research
Wesley C. Becker
Pierre Bourdieu
The Cultural Transmission of Social Inequality
David Swartz
Bernstein and Durkheim
Two Theories of Change in Educational Systems
Mohamed Cherkaoui
Winter
Teaching Reading and Language to the Disadvantaged
Wesley C. Becker
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1976

Fall 1976
Introduction
The History of the History of American Education, 1900-1976
The Uses of the Past
Sol Cohen
The Role of Education in American History
A Memorandum for the Committee Advising the Fund for the Advancement of Education in Regard to This Subject
Richard J. Storr
Ways of Seeing
An Essay on the History of Compulsory Schooling
David B. Tyack
Conflict and Consensus Revisited
Notes toward a Reinterpretation of American Educational History
Carl F. Kaestle
From Religion to Politics
Debates and Confrontations over American College Governance in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Jurgen Herbst
Education for Freedom
Children's Fiction in Jacksonian America
Anne Scott MacLeod
Before Home Start
Notes toward a History of Parent Education in America, 1897-1929
Steven L. Schlossman
Fall
The History of the History of American Education, 1900-1976
Sol Cohen
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Winter 1976
Educational Expansion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
Human-Capital Formation or Structural Reinforcement?
Alexander James Field
Loss as a Theme in Social Policy
David K. Cohen
Race, Politics, and the Courts
School Desegregation in San Francisco
David L. Kirp
Academic Evaluation and Grading
An Analysis and Some Proposals
John F. Huntley
Winter
Race, Politics, and the Courts
David L. Kirp
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Spring 1976
School Desegregation in Large Cities
A Critique of the Coleman "White Flight" Thesis
Thomas F. Pettigrew, Robert L. Green
Strings
A Critique of Systematic Education
Dennis Szilak
The Separation of School and State
Pierce Reconsidered
Stephen Arons
Spring
Strings
Dennis Szilak
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Summer 1976
Community Representation in Teacher Collective Bargaining
Problems and Prospects
Charles W. Cheng
New Directions in Theories of Language Acquisition
Marilyn H. Edmonds
The Goddess, the School Book, and Compulsion
Charles Burgess
Summer
Community Representation in Teacher Collective Bargaining
Charles W. Cheng
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1975

Spring 1975
Busing for Racial Balance
Not One Judge's Opinion
Morgan v. Hennigan and the Boston Schools
Roger I. Abrams
Reforming Educational Policy With Applied Social Research
David K. Cohen, Michael S. Garet
Gatekeeping and the Melting Pot
Interaction in Counseling Encounters
Frederick Erickson
Educational Goals and Schooling in a Therapeutic Community
Stephen M. Bookbinder
Spring
Gatekeeping and the Melting Pot
Frederick Erickson
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Summer 1975
Introduction
Nonformal Education and Occupational Stratification
Implications for Latin America
Thomas J. La Belle, Robert E. Verhine
The African University as a Multinational Corporation
Problems of Penetration and Dependency
Ali A. Mazrui
A Lesson from China
Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Cultural Revolution at Wuhan University
Joseleyne Slade Tien
The Old Man and the Census
Chinua Achebe
Literary Colonialism
Books in the Third World
Philip G. Altbach
Summer
The African University as a Multinational Corporation
Ali A. Mazrui
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Fall 1975
Effects of High Schools on Their Students
Christopher S. Jencks, Marsha D. Brown
Regression Analyses and Education Production Functions
Can They Be Trusted?
Daniel F. Luecke, Noel F. McGinn
Hierarchical Theories of Development in Education and Psychology
D. C. Phillips, Mavis E. Kelly
Fall
Regression Analyses and Education Production Functions
Daniel F. Luecke, Noel F. McGinn
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Winter 1975
Winson and Dovie Hudson's Dream
Marian Wright Edelman
Rally 'Round the Workplace
Continuities and Fallacies in Career Education
W. Norton Grubb, Marvin Lazerson
Cross-Cultural Piagetian Research
An Experimental Perspective
Patricia Teague Ashton
Engendering Change in Special Education Practices
Milton Budoff
Winter
Rally 'Round the Workplace
W. Norton Grubb, Marvin Lazerson
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1974

Spring 1974
Student Classification, Public Policy, and the Courts
David L. Kirp
An Interview with Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman
Radical Correctional Reform
A Case Study of the Massachusetts Youth Correctional System
Lloyd E. Ohlin, Robert B. Coates, Alden D. Miller
Myths and Realities in the Search for Juvenile Justice
A Statement by The Honorable Justine Wise Polier
Justine Wise Polier
A Policy Statement on Assessment Procedures and the Rights of Children
Jane R. Mercer
A Philosophical Justification For Children's Rights
Victor L. Worsfold
Spring
Radical Correctional Reform
Lloyd E. Ohlin, Robert B. Coates, Alden D. Miller
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Summer 1974
Children's Television More than Mere Entertainment
Aimee Dorr Leifer, Neal J. Gordon, Sherryl Browne Graves
Credentialing by Tests or by Degrees
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Griggs v. Duke Power Company
Sheila Huff
Hostos
Report from a Ghetto College
Barry Castro
Summer
Children's Television More than Mere Entertainment
Aimee Dorr Leifer, Neal J. Gordon, Sherryl Browne Graves
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Fall 1974
Sex-Role Culture and Educational Practice
Patrick C. Lee, Nancy B. Gropper
America in Search of a New Ideal
An Essay on the Rise of Pluralism
William Greenbaum
Concept Formation in a Second Language
A Study of Ghanaian School Children
G. Omani Collison
Fall
Sex-Role Culture and Educational Practice
Patrick C. Lee, Nancy B. Gropper
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Winter 1974
The Edge of Social Science
Paul Starr
Can a Student Sue the Schools for Educational Malpractice?
David Abel
Why Special Education Isn't Special
Carl D. Milofsky
Winter
Why Special Education Isn't Special
Carl D. Milofsky
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1973

Spring 1973
Desegregating Urban Schools
A Review of Techniques
Gordon Foster
Perspectives on Inequality
Introduction
After Apple-Picking
Philip W. Jackson
Forensic Social Science
Alice M. Rivlin
A Black Response to Christopher Jencks's Inequality and Certain Other Issues
Ronald Edmonds, Andrew Billingsley, James Comer, James M. Dyer, William Hall, Robert Hill, Nan McGehee, Lawrence Reddick, Howard F. Taylor, Stephen Wright
The Further Responsibility of Intellectuals
Stephan Michelson
Proving the Absence of Positive Associations
Lester C. Thurow
Social Policy, Power, and Social Science Research
Kenneth B. Clark
Comments on Inequality
Beverly Duncan
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Results
James S. Coleman
Inequality in Retrospect
Christopher Jencks
Spring
Social Policy, Power, and Social Science Research
Kenneth B. Clark
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Summer 1973
Politics and Reasoning
Through the Eyes of Teachers and Children
Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
Notes on the Context for Learning
Kiyo Morimoto
Essay Reviews
Summer
Politics and Reasoning
Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
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Fall 1973
Ideological Development In Working-Class Youth
Victoria A. Steinitz, Prudence King, Ellen Solomon, Ellen Shapiro
Title V of ESEA
The Impact of Discretionary Funds on State Education Bureaucracies
Jerome T. Murphy
Sex Role Stereotyping in the Public Schools
Terry N. Saario, Carol Nagy Jacklin, Carol Kehr Tittle
Fall
Ideological Development In Working-Class Youth
Victoria A. Steinitz, Prudence King, Ellen Solomon, Ellen Shapiro
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Winter 1973
Preface
A Statement by Senator Walter F. Mondale
Walter F. Mondale
Children Under the Law
Hillary Rodham
Amphetamines in the Treatment of Hyperkinetic Children
Lester Grinspoon, Susan B. Singer
Abused and Neglected Children in America
A Study of Alternative Policies
Richard J. Light
Foster Care—In Whose Best Interest?
Robert H. Mnookin
Report Analyses
The Massachusetts Task Force Reports: Advocacy for Children
Peter B. Edelman
The White House Conferences on Children
An Historical Perspective
Rochelle Beck
Winter
Children Under the Law
Hillary Rodham
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1972

Winter 1972
Development as the Aim of Education
Lawrence Kohlberg, Rochelle Mayer
Highlander Folk School
Getting Information, Going Back and Teaching It
Frank Adams
Community Colleges and Social Stratification
Jerome Karabel
Winter
Community Colleges and Social Stratification
Jerome Karabel
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Spring 1972
Stages in Language Development and Reading Exposure
Carol Chomsky
Organizing the 'Meritocracy'
A History of the College Entrance Examination Board
Michael S. Schudson
Towards a Political Economy of Education
A Radical Critique of Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society
Herbert Gintis
Spring
Organizing the 'Meritocracy'
Michael S. Schudson
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Summer 1972
Community Power and Student Rights
An Interview with Arthur E. Thomas
Arthur E. Thomas
The Having of Wonderful Ideas
Eleanor Duckworth
Learning, Teaching, and Television Production for Children
The Experience of Sesame Street
Gerald S. Lesser
Summer
Learning, Teaching, and Television Production for Children
Gerald S. Lesser
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Fall 1972
Strengthening Alternative High Schools
Center For New Schools
The Free School Movement
Allen Graubard
Notes Toward a Process of Afro-American Education
Thomasyne Lightfoote Wilson
Schools Without Education
Carl Bereiter
Politics, Rage and Motivation in the Free Schools
Jonathan Kozol
Fall
Schools Without Education
Carl Bereiter
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1971

Spring 1971
Pre-School Children's Knowledge of English Phonology
Charles Read
Title I of ESEA
The Politics of Implementing Federal Education Reform
Jerome T. Murphy
Spring
Title I of ESEA
Jerome T. Murphy
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Summer 1971
Deficit, Difference, and Bicultural Models of Afro-American Behavior
Charles A. Valentine
Strategies for Failure
Annie Stein
An Ethical Model for the Study of Values
Denis Goulet
Summer
Strategies for Failure
Annie Stein
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Fall 1971
Rethinking Black History
Orlando Patterson
Prime Time for Education
Early Childhood or Adolescence?
William D. Rohwer, Jr.
The Present Moment in Educational Reform
Michael B. Katz
Fall
Prime Time for Education
William D. Rohwer, Jr.
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Winter 1971
Accumulating Evidence
Procedures for Resolving Contradictions among Different Research Studies
Richard J. Light, Paul V. Smith
Cuban Education and the Revolutionary Ideology
Samuel Bowles
Serrano v. Priest
Implications for Educational Equality
William N. Greenbaum
Winter
Cuban Education and the Revolutionary Ideology
Samuel Bowles
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1970

Spring 1970
Choosing a Future
Strategies for Designing and Evaluating New Programs
Richard J. Light, Paul V. Smith
Early Childhood Intervention
The Social Science Base of Institutional Racism
Stephen S. Baratz, Joan C. Baratz
Report Analysis
The Impact of Head Start
Marshall S. Smith, Joan S. Bissell
The Impact of Head Start
A Reply to the Report Analysis
Victor G. Cicirelli, John W. Evans, Jeffry S. Schiller
Spring
Choosing a Future
Richard J. Light, Paul V. Smith
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Summer 1970
The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom
Paulo Freire
Illiteracy
An Overview
David Harman
Illiteracy in America
Position Papers: The Politics of Reading
Neil Postman
Illiteracy in the Ghetto
Jane W. Torrey
Properly Literate
Wayne O'Neil
Illiteracy in America
A Symposium
Jeanne Chall, David Harman, Ephraim Isaac, Dorothy Jones, Frank Laubach, Robert Laubach, Wayne O'Neil
Illiteracy in America
Further Comment: The Role of the Volunteer Teacher
Frank C. Laubach, Robert S. Laubach
Literacy through Democratization of Education
Armando Martinez
The Problem of Reading is Solved
Caleb Gattegno
Reading, Writing, and Phonology
Carol Chomsky
Summer
The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom
Paulo Freire
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Fall 1970
Authority in Education
Kenneth D. Benne
Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education
Ray C. Rist
Cultural Action and Conscientization
Paulo Freire
Fall
Authority in Education
Kenneth D. Benne
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Winter 1970
An Interview with James Allen
James E. Allen, Jr.
Educational Experimentation in National Social Policy
P. Michael Timpane
Students in Court
Free Speech and the Functions of Schooling in America
Richard L. Berkman
Another Look at Student Rights and the Function of Schooling
The Elizabeth Cleaners Street School
The University as a Community of Resistance
Antony Mullaney
Winter
Another Look at Student Rights and the Function of Schooling
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