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The cause of both school failure and marriage failure is that almost all people believe in and practice stimulus/response psychology, Dr. Glasser contends. He suggests a better alternative - CHOICE THEORY[SM] - to nurture the warm, supportive human relationships...

In using group activities for learning, cooperative student effort for school events, and peer pressure for classroom discipline, Japanese teachers involve and empower their students, Ms. Baris-Sanders notes. One of the first things people want to know...

By April many state legislatures have either entered or are nearing that hectic period when individual and party agendas make sudden turns. Hidden agendas surface in the form of tacked-on amendments, competing agendas meet head on, and compromise deals...

Canadian universities are entering a period of self-examination. University officials in most provinces are being forced to tackle the task of restructuring their institutions in order to weather the fourth year of government cutbacks and to survive...

It is clear that a network of international service learning is in its formative stage, the authors point out. We must not allow the politics of service programs in the U.S. to blind us to the opportunities in other parts of the world that will enable...

Those crib mobiles with their dancing colors and those kaleidoscopic cloth book, s that are meant to be a baby s first are not what my very young grandchildren enjoy. For these babies, the world is like a television from the 1950s - strictly black and...

While we may not agree with all aspects of the Korean mother's role in her child's education, we cannot deny that a strong family commitment and a demanding curriculum have been driving forces in Korean students' enviable academic achievement, Messrs....

The agents of change in Danish schools are primarily the teachers, but the teachers in the Folkeskole are facing new and multifarious challenges. Their initial education is far from sufficient, and their role as change agents demands access to inservice...

It is doubtful that school programs will prove successful if they seek to teach children the lessons that adults have not yet learned, Mr. Lasley warns. Educators IN the U.S. are embracing another "new" panacea for the apparent crisis of values in the...

While anti-tax discourse pervades public consciousness in the U.S. and has assumed the status of natural law, we might do well to pause and think about what we have lost by failing to create a publicly subsidized day-care system and a generous set of...