Examined student activism concerning the Persian Gulf War. Results showed that students' reports of their parents' activities during the Vietnam War were strongly associated with students' activism. Other correlates included attitudes toward war, political consciousness, authoritarianism, and gender-role ideology. Parents' prowar attitudes had no…

Schools have great potential as a resource for community action. Drawing on work with two inner city primary schools, the author explains how school ground improvement schemes can provide a vehicle for community education which involve women as key actors in local community development and wider environmental improvement. (LZ)

Examines the way one local television station covered the Persian Gulf War. Links coverage to the media routines of television newswork, showing how they act as coherent frames supportive of Gulf policy. Finds that the conflict frame placed anti-war protest in opposition to patriotism, and the control frame dealt with protest as a threat to social…

Argues that demonstrations have become one of the primary means with which cultural groups who lack political access gain public status. Examines the ways in which visual language politically promotes cultural identity, particularly the demands of overcoming an "ahistorical" identity. (SR)

Analysis of national survey data provides support for a racial and political explanation and generational and network explanations of African-American apostasy and switching away from traditional African-American religious denominations. African-American apostates were more educated, male, single, young, wealthy, non-Southern, and urban than other…

Local school districts are suffering from Washington's ongoing antipublic education rhetoric. Educators cannot write fat campaign checks, but they can effectively lobby members of Congress through the AASA Legislative Corps. Now is the time to turn activist and help shape public policy. Supporting the Children's Investment Trust is a good start.…

Examines the culture at a women's college that led to a united protest against "Playboy" magazine's request for female students to pose for its publication. Describes student protests through the media, and opportunities afforded for students to exercise leadership and communicate their ideas in an actual rather than theoretical context.…

Emphasizes the need for music teachers to defend school music programs. Suggests developing advocacy objectives in the areas of communication, visibility, and classroom follow-through. Argues that children's cultural heritage and musical future are at risk if further cutbacks in music education programs are not avoided. (SG)

Provides a history of cooperation between the progressive farm movement and organized labor. Discusses the prospects for continued cooperation, the impacts of corporate-controlled farm policy, and priorities of the progressive farm movement. (LZ)

Examines citizen and community opposition to nuclear waste production and disposal in the past, knowledge that has been gained, and issues citizen groups should focus on in the future. (LZ)

Thinking globally, acting locally has come to be a maxim for an emerging myth about ordinary people acting heroically, from the grassroots, to save the world from environmental contamination. The characteristics of social movements and ideologies concerned with the environment are examined. (SLD)

As illustrated by the educational strategies of women's groups in the Dutch Liberal Party and Leiden University, social movements contribute to adult education. The question remains whether separate programs for women or encouragement of women's participation in existing program is more conducive to emancipation. (SK)

Using Hirschman's conception of exit (turnover) and voice (militancy) as employee responses to objectionable working conditions, this article examines the degree to which teacher job satisfaction and stress symptomology and two hypothesized antecedents (role conflict and ambiguity) are likely to have the same effect on voicing and exiting…

Parent involvement can have unforeseen consequences. Article recounts complicated process of choosing a high school biology textbook in Colorado Springs district populated mainly by evangelical Christians. Although controversy arose over creationism's treatment in one text, book discussing evolution as unifying concept of biology was eventually…

Christian Right's stepped-up involvement in school life has been catalyzed by pervasive belief that schools are failing and by media disregard of proschool counterarguments. Although Christian takeover of public education is not imminent, Religious Right is identifying problems that concern most Americans and bringing new players and perspectives…