Problem Solving as Home: School Strategy and Research Methodology

Researchers with the European Union-funded Parents and Schools (PAS) Project worked alongside primary schools in an attempt to locate a strategy for the enhancement of home:school partnerships. In so doing, the research approach rejected traditional methodological paradigms which have often produced research results which are easy for practitioners to ignore. Instead, a problem-solving activity, the priority diamond exercise, was developed to raise qualitative and quantitative data in order to help launch schools into meaningful dialogue between parents and teachers and to raise questions within a field fraught with preconceptions about the nature of groups active in the home:school dynamic. Résumé Les chercheurs impliqués dans le Projet Parents et Écoles (PAS: "Parents and Schools Projects"), projet soutenu par l'Union Européenne, ont collaboré avec des écoles primaires pour tenter d'implanter une stratégie de développement d'un partenariat entre famille et école. Ce faisant, cette approche a rejeté les paradigmes méthodologiques classiques qui ont souvent produit des résultats dont les praticiens peuvent aisément ne pas tenir compte. Une activité de résolution de problème (l'exercice "la hiérarchie du diamant"/"The Priority Diamond Exercise") a ainsi été développée dans le but d'aider les écoles à se lancer dans un dialogue authentique entre parents et enseignants et de faire émerger des questions dans un domaine qu'encombrent les préjugés sur la nature de groupes actifs dans la dynamique famille : école. (Traduction: Dominique G. Brassart, UFR des Sciences de l'Education, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Lorraine M. McDonnell, P. Michael Timpane, and Roger Benjamin, (eds.). Rediscovering the Democratic Purposes of Education. Adam R. Nelson. Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964. Stuart J. Foster. Red Alert! Educators Confront the “Red Scare” in American Public Schools, 1947–1954. Lionel S. Lewis. When Power Corrupts: Academic Governing Boards in the Shadow of the Adelphi Case. Gordon B. Arnold. The Politics of Faculty Unionization: The Experience of Three New England Universities. Robert Burns. Being Catholic, Being American: The Notre Dame Story, 1934–1952, Volume II. David Cahan and M. Eugene Rudd. Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace. David Contosta. St. Joseph's: Philadelphia's Jesuit University. Roger Geiger (ed.). The American College in the Nineteenth Century. Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier (eds.). A History of Reading in the West. Franklin Court. The Scottish Connection: The Rise of English Literary Study in Early America. Weili Ye. Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927. Achim Leschinsky and Karl Ulrich Mayer (eds.). The Comprehensive School Experiment Revisited: Evidence from Western Europe. Diane Ravitch. Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. William W. Cutler, III. Parents and Schools: The 150‐Year Struggle for Control in American Education. Thomas V. O'Brien. The Politics of Race and Schooling: Public Education in Georgia, 1900–1961. Susan E. Eaton. The Other Boston Busing Story. Nina de Angeli Walls. Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia. Judy Yung (ed.). Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. Amanda J. Cobb. Listening to Our Grandmothers’Stories: Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949. Gillian Weiss. Trying to Get It Back: Indigenous Women, Education, and Culture. Philip S. Zachernuk. Colonial Subjects: An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas. Michael Gebel. Friedrich Fröbel und die Juden. Victor Acker. Celestin Freinet. Jean O'Grady. Margaret Addison: A Biography. J. E. M. Latham. Search for a New Eden: James Pierrepont Greaves (1777–1842): The Sacred Socialist and His Followers. Christopher R. Reed. All the World is Here: The Black Presence at White City. Ellen M. Litwicki. America's Public Holidays, 1865–1920. Douglas B. Craig. Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940. Virginia E. McCormick. Educational Architecture in Ohio: From One‐Room Schools and Carnegie Libraries to Community Education Villages.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Thomas C. Hunt. The Impossible Dream: Education and the Search for Panaceas. Lu Ann Jones. Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the Nm South. Monda Halpern. And On That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Women and Feminism, 1900–1970. Margaret A. Lowe. Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 18751930. Kirse Granat May. Golden State, Golden Youth: The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955–1966. Lawrence Nelson. Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri “Sex Questionnaire” Scandal in the Jazz Age. William Billingsley. Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. Heather Murray. Come, Bright Improvement! The Literary Societies of Nineteenth‐Century Ontario. Elizabeth McHenry. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African‐American Literary Societies. Stephanie Newell. Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: “How to Play the Game of Life.” Peter Kallaway (ed.). The History of Education under Apartheid 1948–1994. R.J.W. Selleck The Shop: The University of Melbourne, 1850–1939. R.J.W. Selleck and Stuart Macintyre. A Short History of the University of Melbourne. Ruth Spack. America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900. Marilyn Irvin Holt. Indian Orphanages. M.G. Brock and M.C. Curthoys, eds. The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. VII. Nineteenth‐Century Oxford, Part 2. Roberta Hamilton. Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen's University. Michael C. Johanek. A Faithful Mirror: Reflections on the College Board and Education in America. E. Grady Bogue and Jeffrey Aper. Exploring the Heritage of American Higher Education: The Evolution of Philosophy and Policy. Stefan Muthesius. The Postwar University: Utopianist Campus and College. Martha Mizell Puckett. Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom. Robert Cohen (ed.). Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression.     

Book Reviews

Caroline Winterer. The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 272pp. Susan Schulten. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 328pp. Alan R. Sadovnik and Susan F. Semel (eds.). Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders During the Progressive Era. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 288pp. Thomas A. O'Donoghue. Upholding the Faith: The Process of Education in Catholic Schools in Australia 1922–1965. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 170pp. Mariorie Lamberti. The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. 240pp. John L. Rudolph. Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. 288pp. David O. Solmitz. Schooling for Humanity: When Big Brother Isn't Watching. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 244pp. William Westfall. The Founding Moment: Church, Society, and the Construction of Trinity College. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2002.200pp. Tracy Schier and Cynthia Eagle Russett (eds.). Catholic Women's Colleges in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 480pp. Michael Dennis. Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 272pp. Charles A. Nelson. Radical Visions: Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, and Their Efforts on Behalf of Education and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2001. 248pp. Martha Stephens. The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 349pp. Karen Graves, Timothy Glander, and Christine Shea (eds.). Inexcusable Omissions: Clarence Karier and the Critical Tradition in History of Education Scholarship. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 313pp. F. Stuart Gulley. The Academic President as Moral Leader: James T. Laney at Emory University, 1977–1993. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001. 250pp. Philippa Strum. Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 448pp. Ernest Freeburg. The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 272pp. Ellis L. Yochelson. Smithsonian Institution Seretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001. 589pp.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Thomas A. Brindley. The China Youth Corps in Taiwan. Robert Rydell, John E. Findling, and Kimberly D. Pelle. Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States. James Conaway. America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress, 1800–2000. Linda Steet. Veils and Daggers: A Century of Richard J. Altenbaugh, ed. Historical Dictionary of American Education. Kadriya Salimova and Nan L. Dodde (eds.). International Handbook on History of Education. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research. Catherine Clinton and Christine Lunardini. The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century. Leslie Miller‐Bernal. Separate By Degree: Women Students’Experiences in Single‐Sex and Coeducational Colleges. Jon H. Roberts and James Turner. The Sacred and Secular University. Mary Eaton, Jane Longmore, and Arthur Naylor (eds.) Commitment to Diversity: Catholics and Education in a Changing World. Winton Solberg. The University of Illinois, 1894–1904: The Shaping of a University. Andrea Olmstead. Juilliard: A History. Dan R. Frost. The L.S.U. College of Engineering, Vol. 2: Growth and Maturity, 1909–1910. E. David Cronon and John W. Jenkins. The University of Wisconsin: A History: 1945–1971. Vol. IV—Renewal to Revolution. Mark Hulsether. Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941–1993. Alice Gallin, O.S.U. Negotiating Identity: Catholic Higher Education Since 1960. Michael S. Neiberg. Making Citizen Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of the American Military Service. Sarah A. Curds. Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth Century France. Gail Paradise Kelly: French Colonial Education: Essays on Vietnam and West Africa. Meriel Vlaeminke. The English Higher Grade Schools: A Lost Opportunity. Gene L. LaBerge and Michelle L. Maurer (eds.). Travels with Sophie: The Journal of Louise E. Wegner.     

Book Reviews

Carol Summers. Colonial Lessons: Africans’Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918–1940. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 212pp. Cloth $64.95. paper $24.95. Ienaga Saburo. Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 198pp. Ting‐Hong Wong. Hegemonies Compared: State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong. New York: Routledge‐Falmer, 2002. 290pp. Sherri Broder. Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth‐Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 259pp. Joan Marie Johnson, ed. Southern Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882–1916. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.258pp. Vincent Fitzpatrick. Gerald W. Johnson: From Southern Liberal to National Conscience. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 352pp. Leonard Ray Teel. Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. 576pp. Wendy Kline. Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 254pp. Patricia A. Carter. “Everybody's Paid But the Teacher”: The Teaching Profession and the Women's Movement. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. 179pp. Aileen Kilgore Henderson. Tenderfoot Teacher: Letters from the Big Bend, 1952–1954. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2002. 158pp. Wayne J. Urban. Gender, Race, and the National Education Association: Professionalism and Its Limitations. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2000. 304pp. Hans Vermeulen and Joel Perlmann (eds.). Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility: Does Culture Make a Difference? New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2000. 288pp. Michael A. Oliker and Walter P. Krolikowski, S.J. (eds.). Images of Youth: Popular Culture as Educational Ideology. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 227pp. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance (eds.). Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 344pp. Joan W. Scott and Debra Keates (eds.). Schools of Thought: Twenty‐Five Years of Interpretive Social Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 432pp. John P. Jackson, Jr. Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 288pp. Mary Ann Stankiewicz. Roots of Art Education Practice. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2001. 146pp. Linda Symcox. Whose History? The Struggle for National Standards in American Classrooms. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. 228pp. Thomas Ehrlich, ed. Civic Responsibility and Higher Education. American Council on Education, Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 2000.448pp.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: Candy Gunther Brown. The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 352pp. Julie Des Jardins. Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 380pp. Sylvia Paletschek and Bianka Pietrow‐Ennker, eds. Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 448pp. Rodney Koeneke. Empires of the Mind: I.A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929–1979. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 272pp. Karl‐Heinz Füssl. Deutsch‐amerikanischer Kultzlraustausch im 20. Jahrhundert: Bildung—Wissenschaf—Poolitik. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus Verlag, 2004. 325pp. David C. Engerman. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2004. 399pp. Hamilton Cravens (ed). The Social Sciences Go to Washington: The Politics of Knowledge in the Postmodern Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 235pp. David C. Mowery, kchard R. Nelson, Bhaven Sampat, and Arvids Ziedonis. Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University‐Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh‐Dole Act. Stanford: Stanford Business Books, 2004. 264pp. Karyn L. Hollis. Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer. School for Women Workers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. 192pp. Peter Cunningham and Philip Gardner. Becoming Teachers: Texts and Testimonies, 1907–1950. London: Woburn Press, 2004. 250 pp. Richard Aldrich (ed.). Public or Private Education?: Lessons from History. London: Woburn Press, 2004. 221pp. Andrea Hamilton. A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 237pp. Illana DeBare. Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Revival of Girls’Schools. New York: Penguin Group, 2004. 392pp. Jack E. Davis and Kari Frederickson (eds.). Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth Century Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 342pp. Doris Hinson Pieroth. Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 283pp. Stephanie Nicole Robinson. History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. 144pp. Charles Bishop. The Community's College: A History of Johnson County Community College, 1969–1999. Pittsburg, KS: Johnson County Community College/Pittcraft Printing, 2002. 277pp. Lee Hargrave. LSU Law: The Louisiana State University Law School from 1906 to 1977. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 329pp. Amilcar Shabazz. Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 376pp. Steven Noll and James W. Trent (eds.) Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader (The History of Disability) New York: New York University Press, 2004. 506pp. David Hutchison. A Natural History of Place in Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004. 170pp.     

Reviews

Hatcher, Richard; Troyna, Barry and Gewirtz, Deborah Racial Equality and the Local Management of Schools
Hustler, David and McIntyre, Donald (eds) Developing Competent Teachers: Approaches to Professional Competence in Teacher Education
Daglish, Neil Education Policy-Making in England and Wales: The Crucible Years, 1895–1911
Diller, Ann; Houston, Barbara; Morgan, Kathryn Pauly and Ayim, Maryann The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy and Politics
Webb, Rosemary and Vulliamy, Graham Roles and Responsibilities in the Primary School: Changing Demands, Changing Practices
Delamont, Sara A Women's Place in Education: Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Gender and Education
Copelman, Dina M. London's Women Teachers
Halstead, J. Mark and Taylor, Monica J. Values in Education and Education in Values
Cowen, Robert (ed) The Evaluation of Higher Education Systems
Jipson, Janice; Munro, Petra; Victor, Susan; Froude Jones, Karen and Freed-Rowland, Gretchen Repositioning Feminism and Education: Perspectives on Educating for Social Change
Carnoy, Martin (ed) International Encyclopedia of Economics of Education (Second Edition)
Elliott, Jane; Francis, Hywel; Humphreys, Rob and Instance, David (eds) Communities and Their Universities: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning
Oram, Alison Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 1900–39
Wang, Margaret C.; Reynolds, Maynard C. and Walberg, Herbert J. Handbook of Special and Remedial Education: Research and Practice (Second Edition)
Broadfoot, Patricia M. Education, Assessment and Society
Stoll, Louise and Fink, Dean Changing Our Schools     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Mary Lynn Stewart. For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for French Women 1880s–1930s. John Cleverley. In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province. David L. McConnell. Importing Diversity: Inside Japan? JET Program. Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Etta Baichman‐Anisef, Carl James, and Anton Turrittin. Opportunity and Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of‘73. Toronto: Julian A. Soares. The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University. Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman. Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition. Philip Pauly. Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey. Louis Leonard Tucker. Worthington Chauncey Ford: Scholar and Adventurer. Robert E. Sullivan (ed.). Higher Learning and Catholic Traditions. Clarence L. Mohr and Joseph E. Gordon. Tulane: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945–1980. Jana Nidiffer and Carolyn Terry Bashaw. Women Administrators in Higher Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Kate Weigand. Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation. Joanne P. Sharp. Condensing the Cold War: Reader's Digest and American Identity. Donald Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson. Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching. Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo. Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920. Laura Browder. Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. Adam Fairclough. Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow. Gerald Home. Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois. V. Celia Lascarides and Blythe F. Hinitz. History of Early Childhood Education. Peter Middleton and Tim Woods. Literature of Memory: History, Time and Space in Postwar Writing.     

Reviews

Book reviewed:
K. Field, P. Holden and H. Lawlor Effective Subject Leadership
C. Paechter, Changing School Subjects: power, gender and curriculum
E. Margolis (ed.), The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education
G. Nicholls, Professional Development in Higher Education
R. Andrews, Teaching and Learning English: A Guide to Recent Research and its Application
P. T. Knight and P. R. Trowler, Departmental Leadership in Higher Education
R. Daugherty, R. Phillips and G. Rees (eds), Education Policy-making in Wales
G. Crozier, Parents and Schools – partners or protagonists?
H. Brighouse, School Choice and Social Justice
G. McCulloch and W. Richardson, Historical Research in Educational Settings
J. F. Donnelly and E. W. Jenkins, Science Education: Policy, Professionalism and Change
D. Warner and D. Palfreyman (eds), The State of UK Higher Education: Managing Change and Diversity
G. Mac Naughton, S. Rolfe and I. Siraj-Blatchford (eds), Doing Early Childhood Research – International Perspectives On Theory and Practice
G. Thomas and A. Loxley, Deconstructing Special Education and Constructing Inclusion
S. Tomlinson, Education in a Post-welfare Society     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: Scott Casper et al., Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentaries. Douglas McKnight. Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity: Education's “Errand Into the WiLderness.” Doug Feldmann. Curriclllum and the American Rural School. Gay Pitman Zieger. For the Good of the Children: A Histoy ofthe Boys and Girls Republic. Steve Golin. The Newark Teachers Strikes: Hopes on the Line. Thomas S. Popkewitz, Barry M. Franklin, and Miguel A. Pereyra (eds.). Cultural Hirtury and Education: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling. Elaine Franz Parsons. Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth‐Century United States. Peter N. Stearns. Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America. Robert Halpern. Making Play Work: The Promise of After‐School Programs for Low‐Income Children. Anne Behnke Kinney. Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China. Xiaomei Chen. Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporay China. Jack Boozer. Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique. Anthony Harkins. Hillbilly: A Cultural History of An American Icon. Patricia Mazón. Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865–1914. Paul K. Conkin. Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. Thomas N. Bonner. Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning. Jared Stallones. Paul Robert Hanna: A Life of Expanding Communities. Judith Hicks Stiehm. The U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy. Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik (eds.). The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s. Joy Ann Williamson. Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965–1975. Robert Pratt. We Shall Not be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia. William H. Schneider. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. John Schmalzbauer. People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education. Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware. Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution. Gordon E. Harvey. A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968–1976.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: GRIFFITH, P. (1987) Literary Theory and English Teaching. BLOOME, D. (ed) (1987) Literacy and Schooling. HANNON, P. and JACKSON, A. The Belfeld Reading Project Final Report: Belfield Community Council/National Children's Bureau LRWIN, J.W. (ed) Understanding and Teaching Cohesion Comprehension. FOORMAN, B.R. and SIEGEL, A.W. (eds) (1986) Acquisition of Reading Skills: Cultural Constraints and Cognitive Universals.     

Book reviews

Psychology of the Junior High‐School Pupil. By L. A. Peckstein (University of Cincinnati) and A. Laura McGregor (Rochester, N. Y., Public Schools). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924. Pp. xxii + 280. Price, $2.

Modern Methods in Teaching. By H. B. Wilson, George C. Kyte, and H. G. Lull. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1924. Pp. vi + 286. Price, $1.64.

Elementary School Costs in the State of New York. By R. O. Stoops. A report reviewed and presented by the Educational Finance Inquiry Commission under the auspices of the American Council on Education, Washington, D. C. New York: Macmillan Co., 1924.

The Cost and Support of Secondary Schools in the State of New York. By Charles W. Hunt. A report reviewed and presented by the Educational Finance Inquiry Commission under the auspices of the American Council on Education, Washington, D. C. New York: Macmillan Co., 1924.

Interesting Neighbors. By Oliver P. Jenkins. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Sons & Co., 1922. Pp. xi + 248.

The Humanizing of Knowledge. By J. H. Robinson. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Pp. ix + 117. Price, $1.50.

Education of Gifted Children. By Lula M. Stedman (University of California, Southern Branch). Yonkers‐on‐Hudson: World Book Co., 1924. Pp. viii+ 192. Price, $1.80.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: ZAKALUK, B.L. and SAMUELS, S.J. (1988) Readability: Its Past, Present and Future. STEPHENS, W.B. (1987) Education, Literacy and Society. LANKSHEAR. C. with LAWLER, M. (1987) Literacy, Schooling and Revolution. FAIGLEY. L., CHERRY, R., JOLLIFFE. D. and SKINNER. A. (eds) (1985) Assessing Writers’Knowledge and Processes of Composing. FREEDMAN, S. (ed.) (1985) The Acquisition of Written Language; Response and Revision. MATSUHASHI, A. (ed.) (1987) Writing in Real Time: Modelling Production Processes. TEALE, w. and SULZBY, E. (eds) (1986) Emergent Literacy Writing and Reading. WAGNER, DANIEL (1987) The Future of Literacy in a Changing World. BUTLER. DOROTHY (1988) Babies Need Books. LANGER. J.A. (ed.) (1987) Language, Literacy, and Culture: Issues of Society and Schooling. ANDERSON, C. (ed.) (1988) Reading: the abc and beyond. CHAPMAN. L.J. (1987) Reading: From 5–11 Years. THOMSON. JACK (1987) Understanding Teenagers' Reading: Reading Processes and the Teaching of Literature.     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Improving Learning: New Perspectives , P Ramsden (ed)
Appreciating Adults Learning: from the Learner's Perspective , David Boud and Virginia Griffin (editors)
Creating Adult Learning , H P Stroomberg (ed) Spruyt, Van Mantgem & De Does by Leiden
Educational Technology; the Closing-in or the Opening-out of Curriculum and Instruction , P Kenneth Komoski
Learning from Experience through Games and Simulations (Perspectives on Gaming and Simulation 13) Danny Saunders, Alan Coote and David Crookall (eds)
Hands-on HyperCard , Mimi Jones and Dave Myers
A Handbook of Computer Based Training, (Second Edition) Christopher Dean and Quentin Whitlock
Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age , Paul Levinson
Implications of New Technology for the School Curriculum , Richard Fothergill
New Technologies and Professional Communications in Education (Occasional Paper 13) , David Smith (ed)
Training for School Management , Bruce S Cooper and R Wayne Shute
The 1988 Education Act: A Tactical Guide for Schools , Martin Leonard
Microcomputers in Secondary Education , S Moriguti, S Ohtsuki and T Furugori (eds)
CD-ROM: Fundamentals to Applications , Charles Oppenheim (ed)
Girls and Computers: General Issues and Case Studies of Logo in the Mathematics Classroom (Bedford Way Papers 34) , Celia Hoyles (ed)
The Media Lab , Stewart Brand
Smart Cards: Principles, Practice, Applications , Roy Bright
Geography in the National Curriculum , Richard Daugherty (ed)
Mastering Statistics , T J Hannagan
Dictionary of Image Technology , Bernard Happe (editor)
HyperCard Power: Techniques and Scripts , Carol Kaehler
1989 Open Learning Directory , Training Agency     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: BLOOM, W. (1987) Partnership with Parents in Reading. DURKIN. K. (ed.) (1986) Language Development in the School Years. WEBSTER, A. (1986) Deafness, Development and Literacy. BESNER, D., WALLER, T.G. and MACKINNON, G.E (eds) (1985) Reading Research: Advances in Theory and Practice. PERERA, K. (1984) Children's Writing and Reading: Analysing Classroom Language. STEIN. NANCY, L. (ed.) (1986) Literacy in American Schools. Learning to Read and Write. DE BEAUGRANDE, ROBERT (1984) Text Production. Advances in Discourse Processes XI.     

ABANDONING THEORETICAL FORTRESSES: POSSIBILITIES FOR INTERACTION

In this review essay, William Proefriedt argues that it may be possible to reformulate three apparently irreconcilable stances in a manner that would allow more interaction among the elements championed within each stance. The arguments addressed are (1) the argument for the efficacy of educational reform; (2) the argument that social and economic realities decisively undercut the efficacy of educational reform; and (3) the argument that the heritability of IQ is dramatically more determinative of individuals' school and economic success than any set of school policies and practices. Proefriedt seeks to examine these positions as they have been developed in Linda Darling‐Hammond et al.'s Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding, Richard Rothstein's Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black‐White Achievement Gap, and Charles Murray's Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality. He concludes that the three analyses under consideration can be formulated so that each might serve to complement the strengths and correct the deficiencies of the others, thus yielding a broader explanatory scheme that could lead to wiser policies.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article:
Barry M. Franklin (ed.). Curriculum and Consequence .
William E. Marsden. The School Textbook: Geography, History and Social Studies .
Thomas Fleming, ed. School Leadership: Essays on the British Columbia Experience, 1872–1995 .
Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston .
Chester J. Fontenot, Jr. and Mary Alice Morgan, eds. W. E. B. Du Bois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of The Souls of Black Folk .
John Bloom. To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools .
Daphne Spain. How Women Saved the City .
Kathleen Broome Williams. Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II .
Katherine H. Adams. A Group of Their Own: College Writing Courses and American Women Writers , 1880–1940.
Jana Nidiffer. Pioneering Deans of Women: More Than Wise and Pious Matrons .