Volume 17, No. 3
Winter 1992
CONTENTS
SPECIAL ISSUE: THE OXFORD ROUND TABLE
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE VI
Comparative Studies –Signposts for Educational Policy
EDMUND KING, Emeritus Professor, University of London and
Editor of Comparative Education 1
Educational Innovation in the United Kingdom since 1988
STUART MACLURE, author, visiting scholar and former Editor of the
Times Education Supplement, London 13
Implications of Political Change in Europe for Educational
Policy Development
J.J. TOMIAK, Professor, University of London 19
Revolution in the East: The Educational Lessons
STEPHEN P. HEYNEMAN, Division Chief, Population and Human Resources
Division, Europe, Middle East and North Africa Region, The World Bank 35
Education Restructuring and the Unification of the Two German States:
The Opportunity and the Challenge
NORBERT LAMMERT, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry
of Education and Science, Bonn 47
The Reform of Education in the Republic of Bulgaria
MATEY MATEEV, Professor and Minister of Public Education, Bulgaria 55
Educational Strategy, Reform and Law in Romania
GHEORHE STEFAN, Minister of Education and Science, Romania 64
A New Paradigm for Public Education in Czechoslovakia
OLDRICH BOTLIK, Educational Consultant to the Minister of Education
of the Czech Republic, Prague 70
Education Reform and Structural Adjustment:
Reflections on the Guyana Experience
DERYCK M. A. BERNARD, Minister of Education and Cultural Development,
Guyana 76
Policy Issues Related to Educational Financing in Zimbabwe
D. I. G. KARIMANZIRA, Member of Parliament and the Minister for
Higher Education, Zimbabwe 89
Innovations in the Structure and Organization of the Education
System in Malawi
M. U. K. MLAMBALA, Member of Parliament and Minister of Education
and Culture, Malawi 103
Educational Systems and Social Change: The Puerto Rican Experience
in an Adjustment Process
GILBERTO RIVERA-ORTIZ, Senator and Majority Leader and Former
Chairman of the Education Committee of the Senate of Puerto Rico 111
Financing the Public Schools of the United States:
A Perspective on Effort, Need, and Equity
KERN ALEXANDER, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech 122
Business and Education: A Perspective
JOSEPH A. PICHLER, President and Chairman of The Kroger Company,
a major U.S. grocery chain based in Cincinnati, Ohio 145
How Do We Get There from Here?
JEB SPAULDING, member of the Vermont State Senate where he chairs the
Senate Education Committee 152
Education Reform in America’s Urban Schools
G. E. CARTWRIGHT, Manager, Urban and Community Affairs,
Amoco Corporation 159
Skills Security: One Company’s Strategy for Empowerment
Through Education
MUTIU FAGBAYI, Director, Education Programs and Manager,
Kodak 21st Century Learning Challenge, for Eastman Kodak Company,
Rochester, New York 165
A Perspective on Education Reform from one State of the United States
JOE E. LUTJEHARMS, Commissioner of Education, Nebraska 173
Toward an Efficient System in School Financing in Texas
CARL PARKER, State Senator and Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee 192
Public Higher Education in the State of Michigan
JOHN J. H. SCHWARZ, State Senator, State of Michigan 199
A Partner in Education: Home Savings of America
B. JUDY MORGAN PHILLIPS, Vice President, Home Savings of America,
H.F. Ahmanson & Company, California 205
Program of the 1991 Oxford Internal Round Table on
Education Policy (OIRTEP) 225
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