School library support of health education in China: a preliminary study.
Abstract This preliminary study investigates the current situation of school library support of K-12 health education in China. A survey of 42 school librarians and 115 K-12 teachers from selected schools was conducted to find out their views about school library's role in school health education and...

Where Did NCLB Come From? The true story of the federal role in education.
See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan By Gareth Davies University Press of Kansas, 2007, $39.95; 387 pages. Gareth Davies, a historian at Oxford University, brings care and precision to his study of the process that produced federal education legislation and...

Retrogressing.
Byline: Edgardo J. Angara THE recent abolition by Executive Order 632 of the National Coordinating Council for Education (NCCE), and the transfer of all its functions to a presidential assistant, not only blatantly violated the law but demonstrated as well the utter absence of institutional memory. ...

A case of unconstitutional immigration: the importation of England's national curriculum to the United States.
ABSTRACT The decline in the quality of the American educational system continues to spawn debate and criticism across the nation. Despite many suggestions and arguments on how to improve American schools, such as voucher systems, smaller class size, and higher teacher qualifications, the concern, while deeply felt,...

Angara airs concern on education policies.
Byline: HANNAH L. TORREGOZA Sen. Edgardo Angara yesterday expressed concern that Malacanang's policies on education might be "retrogressing." Angara said government's programs for education appear to be retrogressing to the days before the Commission on Education (EDCOM) which he chaired in 1991. "I...

Response to Brian Platt's comments.
Platt is correct that two of the issues raised in my review are addressed in his introduction. His discussions of both the meaning of hegemony and the virtues of exceptionalism for historical study are both highly thought-provoking. Neither, however, is reflected in his handling of those concepts in the...

Higher Education in Israel.
Until the late 1980s, the Israeli higher-education system consisted mainly of a small number of universities -- three founded before 1948, and the rest in the 1950s and 1960s. Over the past decade, the system has both expanded and diversified, embracing several types of academic institutions differentiated by their...

Faith schools and state education: church-state relations and the development of the 5-14 religious education program in Scotland.
Public policy questions such as public funding for Catholic schools, the extent of government involvement in private education, and church-state relations in general are not unique to the United States. This article discusses Catholic education in Scotland, with a view to explaining the ongoing need for cooperation and goodwill...

Growing government demands for accountability vs. independence in the university.
THE TREND toward greater government involvement in assessing quality in U.S. universities is being driven by powerful forces. Universities today receive a tremendous amount of government funding on the local, state, and federal levels. This has led to an increasing pressure on governments to account for how tax money...

Early childhood education policy.
INTRODUCTION This article provides a Ministry of Education commentary on the policy framework for early childhood education (ECE). It responds to concerns about the policy framework raised in Munford et al.'s "Blending Whanau/Family Development, Parent Support and Early Childhood Education (1) Programme" that the policy framework for...