Defines citizenship and makes a case for turning it into a crusade. (JOW)

Discusses situations through which citizens of all ages can come to understand in detail the issues and processes which inform our lives and our society, thus increasing awareness not only of the large variety of issues in government but of technicalities and processes of their resolution. (WL)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

A public relations programs carried out the police department of Palo Alto, California, has produced an improved atmosphere between policemen and local residents, especially students. (CK)

Speech presented at the 54th NASSP Convention. (EJS)

Post-World War II adult civic education sought to promote citizen participation, individual development, and the creation of an aware and informed citizenry. The objectives were the creation of a public opinion able to assess critically the accomplishment of government, and citizens able to identify and solve common social problems. (Author/AG)

Legal upbringing must include the inculcation of a feeling of respect for normative legal acts and conviction in the absolute necessity for their execution and observance (an aspect in the formation of a legal conscience), as well as the required minimum of legal knowledge. (Author)

This article suggests that the elementary school curriculum has the potential for meeting the needs of the community for inculcation of social responsibility and values in future decision makers. (RE)

Part of an eight article review of "Student Involvement .

Identifies seven historical purposes of American education (academic discipline, social efficiency, individual development, vocational competence, freedom, equality, and community) contending that the seventh, education for community, should now receive highest priority because of its importance for the future and our neglect of it in the past,…

Author urges schools to respond to the challenge of the 26th amendment, both in curriculum and context. (MB)

A decision-making rationale and curriculum model are given. (SE)

This article presents a way of looking at decision making that can facilitate students' achievement of citizenship skills that may enable them to be more effective participants during and between elections. (AV)