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Belaboring education THE TEACHER REBELLION David Selden Howard University, $16.95, 260 pp. Maurice R. Berube W ITHIN a generation, American teachers have come to wield enormous educational...

Assessing a revolution (September 1985)

FOOD, HEALTH, & SCHOOLING IN CUBA Assessing a revolution MAURICE R. BERUBE CUBA HAS MADE significant progress in social policy since the revolution twenty-six years ago. But, that progress has...

Correspondence: (January 1981)

Correspondence A reader tenderized Gretna, La. To the Editors: The article written by John Garvey, titled "Church Beyond Church" [Nov. 21], was outstanding. I am one of those Catholics that gets...

Fifteen Thousand Hours (April 1980)

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TWO VIEWS-I: THE REVOLT AGAINST COLLEGE (April 1977)

I S COLLEGE WORTI~PirRILE?--.I THE REVOLT AGAINST COLLEGE MA'UI CF. R. BERUBE The declining v ue of a college degree Our most cherished beliefs on the efficacy of education are under severe...

COLLEGE FOR THE POOR (April 1976)

COLLEGE FOR THE POOR MAURICE R. BERUBE The inequality gap in education The average middle-class young American attends some form of college. The average poor youngster does not and cannot. Why?...

The Gangster as Folk Hero (June 1972)

this radical talk about her responsibilities on the investment committee of her church, said plaintively, after Honeywell, ITT, and GE had been called down hard for their parts in providing...

The End of School Reform (April 1972)

as though the problem begins only after he has had his pleasure . . . . The male in the throes of sexual lust is not in the least concerned with the rights of any fetus his activity may bring...

Is This School Necessary? (January 1972)

statue of Our Lady of Copacabana through the main streets of La Paz. This procession was organized by a group of Franciscans, who were pawns of government factions. In Santa Cruz, where the...

THE DEFEAT OF THE GREAT BLACK HOPE (March 1971)

AVE ATQUE VALE, ALI THE DEFEAT OF THE GREAT BLACK HOPE Boulton Demas is a black 31-year-old lecturer in political science, originally from Trinidad, who, until recently, had never seen a...

BOOKS (January 1971)

Saving another reform from its friends Hometvorh: Required Reading for Parents and Teachers GLORIA CHANNON Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, $5.95 This Rook In About Schools SATU REPO, EDIT. Pantheon,...

THE TROUBLE WITH VOUCHERS (January 1971)

THE TROUBLE WITH VOUCHERS DESPITE SOME ATTRACTIVE IDEAS, THE VOUCHER PLAN IS RIGGED TO FAIL . . . IT IS BASED ON A REMARKABLY NAIVE ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL POLITICS. MAURICE R. BERUBE There...

THE RIGHT TO COLLEGE (April 1970)

THE RIGHT TO COLLEGE Can we afford to send to college all those who want to go? MAURICE R. BERUBE The Nixon Administration has ordered a major retreat in providing educational opportunities...

BENIGN NEGLECT FOR EDUCATION TOO (March 1970)

Benign Neglect For Education Too President Nixon's educational reform message to Congress is a classic example of how social science can be grossly misapplied for political purposes. As the...

JENSEN'S COMPLAINT: (October 1969)

The method of Christ is, as of this Christian year of Bar Jesus, an itinerant rabbi. Now we gather night after 1969, fairly untried, a coin hot from the mint, a closed night,...

Head Start to Nowhere (May 1969)

HEAD START TO NOWHERE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unhappy [ate [or a popular program MAURICE R . BERUBE The Nixon administration has delivered a near fatal blow to former President...

BLACK POWER AND THE LEARNING PROCESS (April 1969)

BLACK POWER AND THE LEARNING PROCESS _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 Learning a lesson [rom Catholic education MAURICE R. BERUBE There is mounting evidence to show that...

Unschooling New York's Children (October 1968)

but from progressives who had taken over the party structure. The threat of retaliation had minimal impact on the nominating process compared with the effect of long months of hard work at the...

CORRESPONDENCE: (August 1968)

CORRESPONDENCE Controlling the Schools Bronx, N.Y. To the Editors: The title of Maurice R. Berube's article [June 21] on community control of the schools, "Scarsdale, Yes- Harlem, No," implies...

BUNDY'S PLAN FOR NEW YORK SCHOOLS (December 1967)

can dream—the school as the ladder of success—but it has been harder to convince the experts, the social scientists and professional educators who tend to view reality through the peephole of their...

DE FACTO ANTICLIMAX: (July 1967)

debate the proposals, and they have been enjoined by "There must be a broad base of appeal," one member the delegates to publish their findings by September 30, said privately, "if...

EDUCATION AND THE POOR (March 1967)

The urban public school EDUCATION AND THE POOR 0 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 MAURICE R. BERUBE Evidence that the public school favors the affluent and works to the detriment of the poor continues...

WHITE LIBERALS, BLACK SCHOOLS (October 1966)

The Commissioner of Education's office has taken this to mean to apply to de jure segregation—dual school systems—and last March issued revised guidelines to that effect. Although some staff of...

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