The Editors: Noel F. McGinn is Emeritus Professor in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Emeritus Fellow in the Harvard Institute for International Development. Erwin H. Epstein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Loyola University of Chicago. Both McGinn and Epstein are past presidents of the Comparative and International Education Society.

• Contents: Noel F. McGinn: Education, Democratization, and Globalization: A Challenge for Comparative Education - Aaron Benavot: Education and Political Democratization: Cross-National and Longitudinal Findings - Matthew Christenson and Edward Crenshaw: Democracy's Handmaiden: The Influence of Mass Education on Political and Economic Change - Noel F. McGinn and Susan Street: Educational Decentralization: Weak State or Strong State? - E. Mark Hanson: Democratization and Decentralization in Colombian Education - Jim Carl: Parental Choice as National Policy in England and the United States - Joseph W. Elder: The De-Colonization of Educational Culture: The Case of India - Robert F. Lawson: The Evolution of Democratic Education in South Africa - Erwin H. Epstein: The Peril of Paternalism: The Imposition of Education on Cuba by the United States - Barry Sautman: Politicization, Hyperpoliticization, and Depoliticization of Chinese Education - Jonathan Jansen: The State and Curriculum in the Transition to Socialism: The Zimbabwean Experience - Sheryl L. Lutjens: Rectification, Participation, and Education in Cuba - Elena Lisovskaya: The Dogmatism of Ideology: Content Analysis of Communist and Postcommunist Russian Textbooks - Antoinette Errante: Regaining Sight of Democracy in Mozambique - Robert F. Arnove: Education as Contested Terrain in Nicaragua.