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1984

Spring 1984
Introduction
Harold Howe II
"...accountable after the politicians have moved on..."
John Barranco
"...the conditions of teachers' work..."
David K. Cohen
"...what teachers know: the best knowledge base..."
Eleanor Duckworth
"...recognizing differences as resource and strength..."
Alvin V. Fortune
"...for the short and long term..."
Rosemarie V. Rosen
"...a missing and essential element..."
Carolyn D. Wyatt
Hard Times, Then and Now
Public Schools in the 1930s and 1980s
David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot
Setting the Standard
Alternative Policies for Student Promotion
David F. Labaree
Spring
Hard Times, Then and Now
David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot
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Summer 1984
Transforming the Frog into a Prince
Effective Schools Research, Policy, and Practice at the District Level
Larry Cuban
On the Education of Policymakers
Israel Scheffler
Educational Inequality in South Africa and Its Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
Kevin Danaher
Merit Pay for Teachers
A Poor Prescription for Reform
Susan Moore Johnson
Public Philosophy and the Crisis in Education
Henry A. Giroux
Summer
Transforming the Frog into a Prince
Larry Cuban
Merit Pay for Teachers
Susan Moore Johnson
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Fall 1984
An Interview
Lewis Thomas Discusses the Threat of Nuclear War
Lewis Thomas
Resistances to Knowing in the Nuclear Age
John E. Mack
Problematic Aspects of Nuclear Education
Barbara Tizard
The Role of Education in Preventing Nuclear War
Eric Markusen and John B. Harris
Between Feeling and Fact
Listening to Children
Brenda S. Engel
Chronicles
The Catholic Bishops' Peace Pastoral and Higher Education
Judith A. Dwyer
A Decisionmaking Approach to Nuclear Education
Roberta Snow, Lisa Goodman
A Classroom Experiment in Teaching for Peace
Solutions to Global Problems
Charlotte Waterlow
A Middle School Approach to Peace Education
Frederick B. Cunningham
Beginnings
Jean Jacobson
Education for Peace and Justice
Kathy Greeley, Susan Markowitz, Carol Rank
A Nuclear Energy Science Week
Michael W. Antrim
Teaching Peace
A Moment of Opportunity
Francis X. Meehan
Fall
The Role of Education in Preventing Nuclear War
Eric Markusen and John B. Harris
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Winter 1984
Variations in State SAT Performance
Meaningful or Misleading?
Brian Powell and Lala Carr Steelman
Placing Women in the Liberal Arts
Stages of Curriculum Transformation
Marilyn Schuster and Susan Van Dyne
The Bandwagon Once More
Vocational Preparation for High-Tech Occupations
W. Norton Grubb
Winter
Placing Women in the Liberal Arts
Marilyn Schuster and Susan Van Dyne
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1983

Spring 1983
Evaluating the Effect of Coaching on SAT Scores
A Meta-Analysis
Rebecca DerSimonian and Nan M. Laird
What You See Is What You Get
Consistency, Persistency, and Mediocrity in Classrooms
Kenneth A. Sirotnik
Equity and the LSAT
Brian Powell and Lala Carr Steelman
Toward Meeting the Research Needs of American Indians
Teresa D. La Fromboise and Barbara S. Plake
Spring
Evaluating the Effect of Coaching on SAT Scores
Rebecca DerSimonian and Nan M. Laird
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Summer 1983
Two Perspectives
On Self, Relationships, and Morality
Nona Plessner Lyons
The Application of Competency Testing Mandates to Handicapped Children
Martha M. McCarthy
Literacy and Language
Relationships during the Preschool Years
Catherine E. Snow
Summer
Literacy and Language
Catherine E. Snow
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Fall 1983
Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education
A Critical Analysis
Henry A. Giroux
Toward a More Effective Model of Research on Teaching
Arthur S. Bolster, Jr.
Teacher Unions in Schools
Authority and Accommodation
Susan Moore Johnson
Fall
Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education
Henry A. Giroux
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Winter 1983
The Proposal in Perspective
Diane Ravitch
The Peter Pan Proposal
Ronald E. Gwiazda
The Yellow Brick Road of Education
Floretta Dukes McKenzie
Qualified Praise for Liberal Learning
Mary Frances Berry
Education, Democracy, and Social Conflict
Martin Carnoy
Two Cheers for the Proposal
Steven M. Cahn
A Response on behalf of the Paideia Group
Mortimer J. Adler
Microcomputer Use in Schools
Developing Research Agenda
Karen Sheingold, Janet H. Kane, and Mari E. Endreweit
Winter
Education, Democracy, and Social Conflict
Martin Carnoy
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1982

Spring 1982
Numbers and Narrative
Combining Their Strengths in Research Reviews
Richard J. Light and David B. Pillemer
Reflections of a Black Social Scientist
Some Struggles, Some Doubts, Some Hopes
Jacquelyn Mitchell
Spring
Numbers and Narrative
Richard J. Light and David B. Pillemer
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Summer 1982
Excluding Women from the Educational Realm
Jane Roland Martin
Some Legal and Research Considerations in Establishing Federal Policy in Bilingual Education
Iris C. Rotberg
Education Grant Consolidation
Its Potential Fiscal and Distributive Effects
Mary E. Vogel
Women in Higher Education
Trends in Enrollment and Degrees Earned
Mary Lou Randour, Georgia L. Strasburg, and Jean Lipman-Blumen
Summer
Excluding Women from the Educational Realm
Jane Roland Martin
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Fall 1982
Functional Literacy
Fond Illusions and False Economies
Kenneth Levine
Yeshiva Shock Waves
David Kuechle
Peasant Consciousness Under Peruvian Military Rule
Erwin H. Epstein
Thinking About Bilingual Education
A Critical Appraisal
Ricardo Otheguy
Fall
Functional Literacy
Kenneth Levine
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Winter 1982
The Federal Role in Education
T.H. Bell
The Federal Role in Elementary and Secondary Education, 1940-1980
Carl F. Kaestle and Marshall S. Smith
The Federal Role in American Indian Education
Frank Anthony Ryan
The Federal Role in Increasing Equality of Educational Opportunity
Kenneth S. Tollett
Federal Grants and Educational Equity
Henry M. Levin
Policy and Organization
The Impact of State and Federal Educational Policy on School Governance
David K. Cohen
The Importance of the Federal Role in Improving Educational Practice
Lessons from a Big-City School System
Thomas K. Minter
The Federal Role in Educational Improvement
Brenda J. Turnbull
The Federal Role in Educational Research
P. Michael Timpane
The Role of the States in Federal Education Programs
Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin
Winter
The Federal Role in Elementary and Secondary Education, 1940-1980
Carl F. Kaestle and Marshall S. Smith
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1981

Spring 1981
Nicaragua 1980
The Battle of the ABCs
Fernando Cardenal, S.J. and Valerie Miller
The People Speak Their Word
Learning to Read and Write in Sao Tome and Principe
Paulo Freire
The Literacy Campaign in Cuba
Abel Prieto Morales
"What Go Round Come Round"
King In Perspective
Geneva Smitherman
Education as Transformation
Becoming a Healer Among the !Kung and the Fijians
Richard Katz
Children of a Brazilian Favela
Robert Coles
The Identity Crisis of Educational Planning
Henry M. Levin
Educational Change and National Economic Development
Pamela Barnhouse Walters
Schooling, Development, and Inequality
Old Myths and New Realities
Gerald W. Fry
The "New Era" in China's Educational Revolution
C.T. Hu
The Contradiction of Bantu Education
Mokubung O. Nkomo
Aboriginal Education
The School at Strelley, Western Australia
Kenneth B. Liberman
Didactic Theatre in Africa
David Kerr
Home (poem)
Derek Walcott
Spring
Nicaragua 1980
Fernando Cardenal, S.J. and Valerie Miller
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Summer 1981
On Generativity and Identity
From a Conversation with Erik and Joan Erikson
Erik H. Erikson and Joan M. Erikson
Culture and Educational Achievement
Gaynor Cohen
Discovering the Pedagogy of Experience
David Thornton Moore
Summer
On Generativity and Identity
Erik H. Erikson and Joan M. Erikson
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Fall 1981
Sophie and Emile
A Case Study of Sex Bias in the History of Educational Thought
Jane Roland Martin
Church and State
Separation or Accommodation?
Martha M. McCarthy
The Bounded Politics of School Desegregation Litigation
David L. Kirp
Fall
Sophie and Emile
Jane Roland Martin
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Winter 1981
Report Analysis
Public and Private Schools
Marya R. Levenson, Dawn Geronimo Terkla
Evidence, Analysis, and Unanswered Questions
Richard J. Murnane
The Issue Is Still Equality of Educational Opportunity
Jomills Henry Braddock II
Disciplined Inquiry or Policy Argument?
Anthony S. Bryk
Why Public and Private Schools Matter
Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Unasked Questions
James W. Guthrie
Policy Implications of the Public and Private School Debates
Barbara L. Heyns
Questions and Answers
Our Response
James Coleman, Thomas Hoffer, Sally Kilgore
Reducing Student Alienation in High Schools
Implications of Theory
Fred M. Newmann
The Allen School
An Alternative Nineteenth-Century Education, 1818-1852
Judith Strong Albert
Winter
Report Analysis
Marya R. Levenson, Dawn Geronimo Terkla
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1980

Spring 1980
The Passion and Challenge of Teaching
Sophie Freud Loewenstein
Success Anxiety in Women
A Constructivist Interpretation of its Source and its Significance
Georgia Sassen
Advancing in School Administration
A Pilot Project for Women
Kathleen D. Lyman and Jeanne J. Speizer
Sexism in Teacher Education Texts
Myra Pollack Sadker and David Miller Sadker
Employment and Education of Mexican-American Women
The Interplay of Modernity and Ethnicity in Eight Families
Maxine Baca Zinn
Anxiety and Mathematics
An Update
Sheila Tobias and Carol Weissbrod
Spring
The Passion and Challenge of Teaching
Sophie Freud Loewenstein
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Summer 1980
Education in the Eighties
Francis Keppel
The Scholastic Aptitude Test
A Critical Appraisal
Warner V. Slack and Douglas Porter
Synthesizing Outcomes
How to Use Research Evidence from Many Studies
David B. Pillemer and Richard J. Light
Domestication as Reform
A Study of the Socialization of Wayward Girls, 1856-1905
Barbara M. Brenzel
Performance-Based Staff Layoffs in the Public Schools
Implementation and Outcomes
Susan Moore Johnson
Summer
Performance-Based Staff Layoffs in the Public Schools
Susan Moore Johnson
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Fall 1980
Education and the State in Capatalist Society
Aspects of the Sociology of Nicos Poulantzas
H. Svi Shapiro
The False Promises of Community Colleges
Class Conflict and Vocational Education
Fred L. Pincus
What I Teach and Why
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
The Scholastic Aptitude Test
A Response to Slack and Porter's "Critical Appraisal"
Rex Jackson
Training, Validity, and the Issue of Aptitude
A Reply to Jackson
Warner V. Slack and Douglas Porter
Philosophy of Education
Some Recent Contributions
Israel Scheffler
Fall
Education and the State in Capatalist Society
H. Svi Shapiro
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Winter 1980
Socialist Criticisms of Education in the United States
Problems and Possibilities
William A. Proefriedt
Early Childhood Programs in Latin America
Robert Halpern
Administration and the Crisis in Legitimacy
A Review of Habermasian Thought
William P. Foster
Winter
Early Childhood Programs in Latin America
Robert Halpern
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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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