Volume 10, Issue 1 (1994)
In this special issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy, we explore some of the more perennial but nonetheless substantive issues involved in the ongoing debate about the shape educational reform should take from different points of view, and seek that most sought-after and elusive alchemist, common ground.
The opinions that appear throughout this volume were expressed by participants in two Horace Mann Foundation forums. The October 15, 1992, session considered the role of the legislature, unions, higher education, and the business community in education reform efforts. The November 24, 1992, meeting focused on the role of education in keeping the American economy competitive in the global market, school choice and vouchers as reform vehicles, and the role of the public in effecting school change. The quotations were compiled by Pat Kelleher, a health care administrator and member of the Horace Mann Foundation advisory board.
Front Matter
Editor's Note
Editor's Note
Padraig O'Malley
Articles
The Impact of School Spending on Student Achievement: Results of MEAP Statewide Tests
Robert D. Gaudet
Better High Schools: What Would Create Them?
Theodore R. Sizer
Parent Involvement in Urban Schools: The View from the Front of the Classroom
Frances Gamer and Kathleen McCarthy Mastaby
Education and Falling Wages
Lester C. Thurow
Connecting Productive Schools and Workplaces for a Knowledge Society
Byrd L. Jones and Robert W. Maloy
The School Improvement Industry: A Case Study of Framingham
Abigail Jurist Levy
Affirmative Action Strategies in Elementary and Secondary Schools
Abigail Therstrom
Violence Prevention in the Schools
Deborah B. Prothrow-Stith
New Directions in Juvenile Justice: School-Based Crime Prevention
Paul F. Walsh Jr.
The Suffolk County Sheriff's Department: Correctional Education Program
Robert C. Rufo and Stefan F. LoBuglio
A Thoughtful Approach to Public Education Reform
John C. Rennie
What's Wrong with Reform?
James H. Case
Follies: Education Reform and the Promise of Technology
Nicholas Paleologos
Why Is Boston University Still in Chelsea?
Glenn Jacobs
NAEP State Reports in Mathematics: Valuable Information for Monitoring Education Reform
Ronald K. Hambleton and Sharon F. Cadman
Notes on Higher Education in the 1990s
Zelda F. Gamson
The Misplaced Burden: Art Education as Social Healer
Carol Cruickshanks
The Changing Nature of Universities
Ernest A. Lynton
Service Learning: The Promise and the Risk
Alice L. Halsted and Joan C. Schine
Key Issues Facing the Boston Public Schools
Robert A. Dentler
Local Autonomy, Educational Equity, and School Choice: Constitutional Criticism of School Reform
James J. Hilton
Back Matter
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Padraig O'Malley
- Book Reviews
- Shaun O'Connell
- Copy Editor
- Geraldine C. Morse
- Design Coordinator
- Candace Chick
- Typography
- Patricia Dal Ponte