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1989

Spring 1989
Play as Thought
Thinking Strategies of Young Writers
Colette Daiute
Foxfire Grows Up
Eliot Wigginton
Intellectual Mirrors
A Step in the Direction of Making Schools Knowledge-Making Places
Judah L. Schwartz
The Computer in Schools
Machine as Humanizer
Sylvia Weir
Kids and Computers
A Positive Vision of the Future
Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
Beyond the Classroom
Carol Stumbo
Spring
Kids and Computers
Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
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Summer 1989
Toward a Social-Contextual Approach to Family Literacy
Elsa Roberts Auerbach
Stories Told and Lessons Learned
Toward a Narrative Approach to Moral Development and Moral Education
Mark B. Tappan and Lyn Mikel Brown
Responses to "Visions for the Use of Computers in Classroom Instruction"
Staff
On Teaching, Knowledge, and "Middle Ground"
Jessica Howard
Summer
Responses to "Visions for the Use of Computers in Classroom Instruction"
Staff
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Fall 1989
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
Fall
The Influences of Salaries and "Opportunity Costs" on Teachers' Career Choices
Richard J. Murnane, Judith D. Singer, and John B. Willett
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Winter 1989
Serving the Purpose of Education
Leona Okakok
The Algebra Project
Organizing in the Spirit of Ella
Robert P. Moses, Mieko Kamii, Susan McAllister Swap, and Jeffrey Howard
Opening Up the Classroom Closet
Responding to the Educational Needs of Gay and Lesbian Youth
Eric Rofes
So We Can Use Our Own Names, and Write the Laws by Which We Live
Educating the New U.S. Labor Force
Sheila D. Collins, Miriam Balmuth, and Priscilla Jean
The Palestinian Uprising and Education for the Future
Khalil Mahshi and Kim Bush
School as Community
The Rough Rock Demonstration
T.L. McCarty
On Transformation
From a Conversation with Mel King
Mel King
Winter
Opening Up the Classroom Closet
Eric Rofes
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1988

Spring 1988
Fundamental Considerations
The Deep Meaning of Native American Schooling, 1880-1900
David Wallace Adams
Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females
The Missing Discourse of Desire
Michelle Fine
Racelessness as a Factor in Black Students' School Success
Pragmatic Strategy or Pyrrhic Victory?
Signithia Fordham
Spring
Racelessness as a Factor in Black Students' School Success
Signithia Fordham
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Summer 1988
Transitional Bilingual Education and the Socialization of Immigrants
David Spener
Teaching Writing in an On-Line Classroom
Edward Barrett and James Paradis
Summer
Teaching Writing in an On-Line Classroom
Edward Barrett and James Paradis
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Fall 1988
Rethinking Liberal and Radical Perspectives on Racial Inequality in Schooling
Making the Case for Nonsynchrony
Cameron McCarthy
The Silenced Dialogue
Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
Lisa D. Delpit
Racism in Academia
The Old Wolf Revisited
Maria de la Luz Reyes and John J. Halcon
Wounding the Spirit
Discrimination and Traditional American Indian Belief Systems
Carol Locust
Ethnic Prejudice
Still Alive and Hurtful
Valerie Ooka Pang
Untitled
Kari Larsen
A Black Student's Reflection on Public and Private Schools
Imani Perry
Building 860
Christian Neira
Radical Perspectives on the Empowerment of Afro-American Women
Lessons for the 1980s
Angela Y. Davis
GIANT LAW, GIANT EDUCATION, and ANT
A Story About Racism and Native Americans
Marlys Duchene
Nobody Mean More to Me Than You And the Future Life of Willie Jordan
June Jordan
Fall
Rethinking Liberal and Radical Perspectives on Racial Inequality in Schooling
Cameron McCarthy
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Winter 1988
Education for Humanization
Applying Paulo Friere's Pedagogy to Learning a Second Language
Tomas Graman
Reforming "Woman's True Profession"
A Case for "Feminist Pedagogy" in Teacher Education?
Susan Laird
Necessary Changes
Professional Involvement in Adult Literacy Programs
Francis E. Kazemek
Screening, Early Intervention, and Remediation
Obscuring Children's Potential
Anne Martin
Winter
Education for Humanization
Tomas Graman
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1987

Spring 1987
Knowledge and Teaching
Foundations of the New Reform
Lee S. Shulman
Teaching Student Teachers to Reflect
Kenneth M. Zeichner and Daniel P. Liston
The Higher Education Acts Contrasted, 1965-1986
Has Federal Policy Come of Age?
Francis Keppel
Spring
The Higher Education Acts Contrasted, 1965-1986
Francis Keppel
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Summer 1987
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Schools as Agents of Social Reform
Judith D. Singer and John A. Butler
Peace Education
Moral Imagination and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Marguerite K. Rivage-Seul
An American Tradition
The Changing Role of Schooling and Teaching
David Tyack, David K. Cohen, Richard J. Murnane, and Jerome T. Murphy
Beyond the IQ
Education and Human Development
Howard Gardner and Robert Coles
In Search of Excellence and Equity in Our Nation's Schools
Nathan Glazer, Harold Howe II, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, and Charles V. Willie
Has Shulman Got the Strategy Right?
Hugh T. Sockett
Summer
An American Tradition
David Tyack, David K. Cohen, Richard J. Murnane, and Jerome T. Murphy
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Fall 1987
Black Students in U.S. Graduate and Professional Schools in the 1980s
A National and Institutional Assessment
Gail E. Thomas
Teachers as Political Actors
From Reproductive Theory to the Crisis of Schooling
Dennis Carlson
Educational Reform and Institutional Competence
Thomas B. Timar and David L. Kirp
Fall
Teachers as Political Actors
Dennis Carlson
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Winter 1987
Beyond Special Education
Toward a Quality System for All Students
Alan Gartner and Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky
The Value of "Time Off Task"
Young Children's Spontaneous Talk and Deliberate Text
Anne Haas Dyson
An Analysis of Multicultural Education in the United States
Christine E. Sleeter and Carl A. Grant
Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education
Kieran Egan
Sounding an Alarm
A Reply to Sockett
Lee S. Shulman
Winter
Beyond Special Education
Alan Gartner and Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky
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1986

Spring 1986
Merit Pay and the Evaluation Problem
Why Most Merit Pay Plans Fail and a Few Survive
Richard J. Murnane and David K. Cohen
Empowering Minority Students
A Framework for Intervention
Jim Cummins
Review of "A Study of High Schools"
A Dialogue in Three Parts
Marvin Lazerson
Thinking About Teachers and the Curriculum
William Ayers
Spring
Merit Pay and the Evaluation Problem
Richard J. Murnane and David K. Cohen
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Summer 1986
Sexual Harrassment in Academia
Feminist Theory and Institutional Practice
Frances L. Hoffmann
On Listening to What the Children Say
Vivian Gussin Paley
A Teacher's Quest for a Child's Questions
Kathe Jervis
Media Power and the Development of Media Literacy
An Adult Educational Interpretation
Stephen Brookfield
Summer
Media Power and the Development of Media Literacy
Stephen Brookfield
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Fall 1986
Teacher Education and the Politics of Engagement
The Case for Democratic Schooling
Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren
Tootle
A Parable of Schooling and Destiny
Nicholas C. Burbules
Research as Praxis
Patti Lather
The Design of Spelling
Valerie Yule
Learning in Small Moments
Daniel Meier
Fall
Teacher Education and the Politics of Engagement
Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren
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Winter 1986
Two Teachers of Letters
Margaret Treece Metzger and Clare Fox
Raising the Teacher's Voice and the Ironic Role of Theory
Joseph P. McDonald
Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator
Lisa D. Delpit
Creative Education for Bilingual Education Teachers
Alma Flor Ada
Fifth Graders Respond to a Changed Reading Program
Cora Lee Five
Equity is Excellence
Transforming Teacher Education and the Learning Process
Ira Shor
In Search of a Critical Pedagogy
Maxine Greene
Cultural Myths in the Making of a Teacher
Biography and Social Structure
Deborah P. Britzman
A Discourse Not Intended for Her
Learning and Teaching within Patriarchy
Magda Lewis and Roger I. Simon
Empowerment and Teacher Education
Margaret Yonemura
Teaching as Research
Eleanor Duckworth
Fidelity in Teaching, Teacher Education, and Research for Teaching
Nel Noddings
Winter
Fifth Graders Respond to a Changed Reading Program
Cora Lee Five
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1985

Spring 1985
Jesuit Education for Justice
The Colegio in El Salvador, 1968-1984
Charles J. Beirne, S.J.
The Flying University in Poland, 1978-1980
Hanna Buczynska-Garewicz
Learning and Teaching Development
Joseph Short
Education in Tanzania
Julius K. Nyerere
International Schools and the International Baccalaureate
Elisabeth Fox
People-Centered Development and Participatory Research
L. David Brown
Basic Ecclesiastic Communities in Brazil
Luiza Beth Fernandes
The Relationship between Racism and Education in South Africa
Ernest F. Dube
One Man's Education
A Testimony to Internationalism
Bill Bailey
Identifying Alternatives to Political Violence
An Educational Imperative
Christopher Kruegler and Patricia Parkman
An Imposter's Voice
Lady Borton
Spring
The Relationship between Racism and Education in South Africa
Ernest F. Dube
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Summer 1985
Understanding Reading Disability
Peter H. Johnston
How Do Teachers Manage to Teach?
Magdalene Lampert
Does the SAT Help Colleges Make Better Selection Decisions?
James Crouse
The Torpedo's Touch
Donald W. Thomas
Summer
Understanding Reading Disability
Peter H. Johnston
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Fall 1985
The Deaf as a Linguistic Minority
Educational Considerations
Timothy Reagan
Religion and Public Schools
Emerging Legal Standards and Unresolved Issues
Martha M. McCarthy
Back to Kindergarten Basics
Anne Martin
Confessions from a Community College
Philip Sbaratta
Yes, the SAT Does Help Colleges
George H. Hanford
Fall
Back to Kindergarten Basics
Anne Martin
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Winter 1985
Children's First Schoolbooks
Introductions to the Culture of Literacy
Peter Freebody and Carolyn D. Baker
English and Creole
The Dialectics of Choice in a College Writing Program
Nan Elvasser and Patricia Irvine
A "Quintessential American"
Horace Mann Bond, 1924-1939
Michael Fultz
This Time the College Board Is Wrong
James Crouse
Winter
Children's First Schoolbooks
Peter Freebody and Carolyn D. Baker
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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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