This report analyzes data resulting from a survey of school participants in six St. Louis area districts. It attempts to discover what motivates people to participate in the public schools, and what effect such participation has on them. Findings include: (1) the more people participate, the greater the impact of that participation will be on…

This report on findings from a questionnaire study of University of California, Los Angeles, students conducted in late 1970 and early 1971 had two stated objectives: (1) to determine how many students felt unfree; what viewpoints they feared to express, and what sanctioners they feared; (2) to identify their distinguishing characteristics.…

Touches upon the cultural and social necessity to combat purported U.S. racist domination of black art, distinguishes between two possibilities for black artists--on one hand to enter and establish oneself in the existing U.S. art world, and on the other to participate as artists directly in the movement for black liberation, it is stated.…

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

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

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

Profiles prepared by U. S. Office of Education staff members.

This paper explores and identifies initiatives in the struggle against militarization. It is one of a series of working papers commissioned by the World Order Models Project in its effort to stimulate research, education, dialogue, and political action aimed at contributing to a movement for a just world order. Taking into account the political…

The role of the agitator in society and the special characteristics of women agitators--in particular, Emma Goldman, an American anarchist from the early twentieth century--are discussed in this paper. Specific examples of the rhetoric used by Emma Goldman in her speeches (supporting anarchism, against women's suffrage, against abortion control,…

Analysis of "the testing rip-off" featured in the January/February 1980 issue of the NEA Reporter provides the main arguments for proposing that the latent function of the protest of the National Education Association (NEA) is not directed against testing per se. Instead, the NEA protest is a political move directed toward shifting the…

In the late 1960's, especially after the 1964 Berkeley movement, numerous power blocks joined in the struggle for control of US universities. The range of demands on the higher education system serve to separate the competing groups into 4 general categories. The Anarchist Left, or radicals, comprises about 5% of the total college student…

Educational institutions, particularly universities, are facing increasing financial pressures, doubts about their relevance, continuing student violence, over-crowding, and the chaos of a knowledge explosion. These interrelated dynamic problems result from the way the educational system is organized and operated. The system's common ways of…