Contents

Introduction:
Defining Excellence and Quality in Education
Joseph Zajda

1. Improving the Quality of Basic Education through Curriculum Development and Reform
M. Kazim Bacchus

2. Equality and Excellence in Education: Contradictions of Recent Educational Reforms
Ibrahim Alladin

3. Fifteen Questions and Answers on `Quality Education'
George Psacharopoulos

4. Marketing School Quality and Effectiveness in a Global Culture
Rea Zajda and Joseph Zajda

5. Good Education: The Producer and Product of Participation and Development
Sheldon Shaeffer

6. Forms of Quality? Documentation and Discipline in a Japanese Preschool
Eyal Ben-Ari

7. Quality Control for Curricula
Shlomo Kaniel

8. Towards a Strategy for Improving the Quality of Primary Education in Developing Countries
Isahak Haron

9. Alternatives to the Structure Management and Quality of Teacher Training and Staff Development
A. R. Thompson

10. Effectiveness of Selective High Schools for Gifted and Talented Students: Student's Perceptions
R. J. Braithwaite and H. G. Kensell

11. Compensatory Education for Equity and Excellence
Harry Passow

12. Circles in Democracy: A School's Internal Governance
Jesse Goodman

13. Building Emancipatory Themes into Teacher Education Programs
Richard Grove and Edmund Short

Notes and References

Author Index

Subject Index