This section of Horizon Home Page consists of commentary and analysis of
nominated issues challenging education. (Click here
for further information.) Some issues have just been nominated for consideration and
comment; others are full blown issue briefs, most of which were developed by students in a
course taught by James L. Morrison, EDSP 287, The Social
Context of Educational Leadership. Please assist us in this enterprise. Our objective is
to provide a space for analysis and commentary of critical issues.
Please consider posting issue briefs for those issues you consider most critical. Each
issue brief should address the following questions:
- What is the issue focus?
- What is the background of the issue?
- What are the forces driving the issue?
- Where is the issue going? What are its prospects?
- What are the implications of the issue for (any or all levels) of education?
- What should educational leaders do?
E-mail your issue brief to morrison@unc.edu, or
mail a disk and hard copy of the issue brief to:
James L. Morrison
On the Horizon
CB 3500, Peabody Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Your brief will be edited and posted on this page.
| 1996 Papers |
| The
Changing Contexts of Higher Education and Four Possible Futures for Distance Education |
| Patricia
Kovel-Jarboe |
| The Transformation of a New Zealand
Polytechnic into a University of Technology |
| Andrew
Codling and Barbara
O'Connor |
| Vouchers:
An Initiative for School Reform? |
| Beverly Browne, Pamela Kinsey-Barker, and Direka Martin |
| Preparing Students for Life: The School-to-Work Reform
Movement |
| Jennifer Donaldson, Richard Hinton, and Linda Nelson |
| Competition to Public Education |
| Holly Hatch, Melanie Lewis, and Wiladean Thomas |
| Emerging Technologies in Distance Learning |
| John Bingham, Teresa Davis, and Cathy Moore |
| Students On-Line |
| Tripp Doepner, Melva Scott, and Sylvia Mason |
| Examining National Standards |
| Melanie Rhoads, Ron Sieber, and Susan Slayton |
| 1997 Papers |
| Developing
Manageable Systems of Care in Education |
| Michael D. Wilhoit |
| Funding
Education in an Older America |
| Dorothy Mebane, Archie Ervin, and Chuck Nolan |
| Preparing
Educators for Multicultural Classrooms |
| Carolyn M. Penny, Albert Forney, and Tanya Millner-Harlee |
| Improving
The Perception Of Public Education |
| Amy Anderson, Rick Evans, Rich Kozak, and Blair Peterson |
| Teacher
Attrition: Is Time Running Out? |
| Janice Croasmun, Donald Hampton, and Suzannah Herrmann |
| Bringing
Teachers and Technology Together in the Classroom: An Overview |
| Linda Jewel and Michael Manning |
| Today's
Fad or Tomorrow's Future? |
| Jesse Dingle, Lisa Napp, Wendy
Gooch, and Alicia Kelly |
| School
Safety: What's Being Done and Where Is It Going? |
| Erin Black, Jim DeBerjeois, Annice Hood, and Pat Lane |
| The
Implications of School Choice |
| Rob Matheson and P. Kayren McKnight |
| The
New Dropouts |
| Wanda DeVane, Gloria Jones, Linda Lowrance, and Becky Viersen |
| New
Directions: Teachers and Technology For The 21st Century |
| Virginia Cardenas, Gus Gillespie, Chris
Mace, and Scott Scheuer |
| 1999
Papers |
|
One
more time: The social promotion debate |
| Jeremy
Stevens, Lorraine Tuck, and Fara
Zimmerman |
| 2001
Papers |
|
Technology
and Global Education:
The Present and the Promise |
| James
Veitch and Pi-Kuei Tu |
|
Help
Wanted: One Million+ Good Women and Men
|
| Jim
Veitch, Pi-Kuei Tu, Renee Franklin, and John Pendergrass |
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