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"That Every Citizen Be Information Rich." Final Conference Report on Montana Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services (Helena, Montana, January 6-8, 1991).
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Montana State Library, Helena. – 1991
Messages from the Governor and the State Librarian of Montana, background information on preconference activities, and an overview of the governor's conference process introduce this conference report. The report covers: (1) the planning process, including the purpose and goals of the conference, members of the various committees and…
Descriptors: Conferences, Democracy, Government Role, Library Services
Some Moral Dimensions of Administrative Theory and Practice.
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Raywid, Mary Anne – Issues in Education, 1986
Examines management approaches in ethical terms, arriving at numerous criteria applicable to educational administration. Discusses scientific management, morally neutral concepts, hyperrationalization, tightening of controls, and the business/industry model as having eclipsed or confused the moral dimensions of education. Calls for enlarged moral…
Descriptors: Criteria, Decentralization, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education
A Freedom of Information Retrospective.
Freedom of Information Center, Columbia, MO. – 1978
This booklet was published in observance of the twentieth year of the Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. It includes seven speeches about the right to know or freedom of information movement that seeks to end government secrecy. The authors of the speeches are: Paul Fisher, who discusses the history of the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Confidential Records, Democracy
Delegates' Skill, Tenacity Carry WHCLIS to a Promising Conclusion.
Flagg, Gordon; Kniffel, Leonard – American Libraries, 1991
Reports on second White House Conference on Library and Information Services (WHCLIS2), which was held in July 1991. Highlights include discussions of the conference themes of literacy, productivity, and democracy; speaker's remarks, including those of President George Bush; a Joint Congressional Hearing on Library and Information Services; and a…
Descriptors: Conferences, Democracy, Futures (of Society), Government Role
Citizenship and Education in Modern Society. Proceedings of the Symposium on Citizenship and Education in Modern Society (Columbus, Ohio, April 1980).
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Alger, Chadwick F.; And Others – 1980
Eight papers focus on a variety of themes concerning the character of citizenship and the nature of education in modern society. For example, one paper explores the thesis that the traditional basic categories in which the requirements of citizenship have been conceived--ruling and authority, obedience and loyalty--have already broken down and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Democracy
Public School Standards: Discussing the Case for Community Control. A Report on the Electronic Symposium, "Public School Standards: Discussing the Case for Community Control," Hosted by the Rural Challenge (Burlington, VT, November 1998-February 1999).
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Annenberg Rural Challenge, Granby, CO. – 1999
An on-line symposium on January 13, 1999, brought together policymakers, educators, parents, students, and local community reformers to discuss rural perspectives on academic standards. As part of an on-line dialogue extending from November 1998 to March 1999, the symposium linked on-line participants to panelists and participants in Burlington,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Community Control, Community Schools, Democracy