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...

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...

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...

Minority enrollment demand for higher education at historically black colleges and universities from 1976 to 1998: an empirical analysis.
Introduction Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were established during the segregation period of U.S. history in response to the demand for education by Blacks who did not have access to White educational institutions. As a group, Blacks share a common historical experience of segregation that was...

The National Childcare Strategy: the social regulation of lone mothers as a gendered reserve army of labour.
Introduction New Labour's National Childcare Strategy (NCS) was outlined in Meeting the Childcare Challenge (Secretary of State for Education and Employment et al., 1998). The NCS was introduced by New Labour as a market-led approach to addressing the lack of childcare provision in England. As such, it...

From the Stasi Commission to the European court of human rights: l'affaire du foulard and the challenge of protecting the rights of Muslim girls.
"In public schools, the wearing of symbols or clothing by which students conspicuously manifest a religious appearance is forbidden. Internal regulations state that the initiation of disciplinary proceedings must be preceded by a dialogue with the student." --French national law, signed into law March 15, 2004 (1)...

Increasing regulatory flexibility of special education programs: problems and promising strategies.
Current national school improvement strategies evident in recent federal and state legislation have three major prongs. The first two, challenging standards and assessments, create the overall framework for systemic reform. The third element, the opportunity to learn standards, asserts that all children and all schools should have a fair...

Student governance: toward effectiveness and the ideal.
College students have been engaged in various aspects of campus governance since nearly the beginning of the academy. This governance was formalized greatly by the academic freedom movement of 40 years ago, and the current system of shared governance has not adapted well to the changing nature of the...

Cognitive and personality factors in relation to timely completion of a college degree.
The timely completion of a higher education degree and the enhancement of academic performance are concerns of students as well as parents and college administrators. The current study assesses the impact of cognitive and affective factors as related to students completing undergraduate degree requirements as well as their cumulative...

Assessment of teacher dispositions.
In the recent years, teacher quality has become a top priority of our national education policy. There is empirical evidence that suggests that teacher inputs have impact on student outcomes. It is also believed that teacher dispositions are as crucial for student achievement as a teacher's pedagogical and content...