The authors report the findings of the 41st Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools. The annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools is unique because it's not an advocacy poll, but rather a thoughtful study of Americans' current perceptions of their public schools. Each…

The author believes a cold war ideology permeates our culture and poisons the minds of youth. The challenge to education is to awaken people to a historical and global perspective and raise public consciousness of the necessity for peace. (MD)

In December 1973, the United Nations General Assembly created the UN University as an instrument through which the diverse and unconnected world community of scholars and scientists could function as an independent world body of intellectuals in the service of mankind. (Author)

Provides an extensive bibliography of books and teaching aids on world cultures. Peace, human rights, and the teaching of world affairs and world understanding are stressed. (LN)

Fictional account of educational procedures in the year 2184 A.D. (including "laser projected holoschooling") and of the wide variety of spectacular changes that will have occurred worldwide as a result of advanced behavior modification and new technology available in the first two hundred years after 1984. (JBM)

Issues discussed include Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's impending retirement, high unemployment, the Quebec separatist movement, the dual language question in Manitoba and Western Canada, labor strife in British Columbia, the effects of the national economic recession on children, and Canadian hopes for the future. (JBM)

In this article, the author claims that lack of attention to international issues in our schools stems in part from a lack of preparation among teachers. But that situation is ripe for change, and both teachers and professors are ready and willing to make it happen.

World events, increasing diversity in the classroom, and headlines about the latest court cases all ensure that religion will remain a sensitive and sometimes contentious issue in the public schools. Challenges readers to think about how they would respond to 12 hypothetical classroom situations involving religion. (Author/MLF)

An interview with former hostage William Keough reveals his perceptions of the political crisis and power structure in Iran, global education, and American schools. (WD)

World order education (a special variety of peace studies) is a legitimate part of a social studies curriculum. (Author/DW)

Article based on a lecture given before a student symposium at the University of Hawaii, Spring, 1969.

Argues that educating Americans to accept and learn to deal with the interdependent nature of the world may be the most important task our educational system faces. (WD)

Major reports on education in 1983 have helped make education a top priority again. Such achievements as a renewed focus on teaching conditions and curriculum are countered, however, by a misguided search for panaceas and ambiguous federal support. The continuing debate on education should be conducted within a global context. (JBM)