This digest offers guidelines for group advocacy efforts on behalf of gifted education. Four potential pitfalls are identified: using an adversarial rather than a persuasive approach; assuming that people in administrative and political positions are not too bright or not very knowledgeable--or both; being impatient; and ineffectively coping with…

For rural women in America to gain some measure of empowerment, they must first have an opportunity to reinforce among themselves their common perceptions of what is happening to them in this culture. Those perceptions, while accurate, deviate from those commonly represented by the media in an urban, male-normed society. Group work is essential…

This guide for changing public opinion concerning physical education is divided into four sections: The first, "Setting the Stage" tells how the various governments are organized, and the processes which turn public opinion into public policy. Future trends in the federal, state, and local role in funding public education are discussed. An…

Analyzes critically the two major perspectives on high school student politics, attempting to explicate and clarify both the empirical and normative implications of: (1) schools being considered not only hierarchical structures that process children but also basically bureaucracies and hence non-political institutions; and (2) high schools being…

A case study of student political protest at the University of Illinois, Urbana, presenting social-base data on 134 members of Socialist and Communist student organizations active between the academic years 1932-1933 and 1941-1942, and comparing them with the student body as a whole for that period as well as to activists of the 1960s. (Author/JM)

Argues that if black writers are to be committed to change and liberation, then they must be concerned with both the image the Afro-American has of himself and the image presented on the mass media, and asserts that blacks are in very grave danger of losing the cultural revolution which is stated to have shown such great promise in the 60s.…

An historical account of Southern Black student dissent in Black colleges in this century which focuses on the continuing conflict between the traditional forces of integration and the pull of assimilation as opposed to a more recent emphasis on black nationalism and a search for a truly black university structure. (EH)

A study of college student civic attitudes identified three types of political orientation (quitters, conventionals, and escalators) associated with political partisanship, ideological preference, political trust, college major, and evaluations of government. Findings show that most students propose quite ordinary and conventional political…

Reprinted from Look magazine, December 12, 1968, through the courtesty of the editors of Look.

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 58 1969).

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