Twelve critical (sometimes very critical) essays on American education. 

They begin with commentary on the sorry state of environmental education, then move through problems with excessive standardized testing and excessive administrator dominance to the need to open up education and make it concerned with thinking and skills that support thinking.

The World-system and a Local System:  Maya Agriculture Meets International Agricultural Development 

E N Anderson

University of California, Riverside

In twenty years of research on the agriculture and forestry of the Yucatec Maya of southeast Mexico, I have seen many ideas come in from the great outside world.  Some succeed, many fail.  In spite of the anthropologists' litany of "community participation" and "cultural sensitivity," the predictor is usually supply and demand:  where there is a market, the Maya will work to develop supply capability; where there is no market, traditional subsistence methods are better than the introductions.  Government or international help is, however, needed to help develop markets and to provide expert knowledge of how to mobilize for them and connect to them.  When this has done, some important successes have followed.  Implications for realistic policies go beyond the obvious, and will be discussed.