This article assesses the social and political significance of the international farmers' movement, La Via Campesina by exploring how it has evolved since its inception in 1993. It explores the movement's accomplishments and the tensions that exist between international expansion and a commitment to represent the local interests of member…

Social institutions that have been around for thousands of years generally change slowly, when they change at all. But that's not the way things have been playing out with marriage and family since the middle of the 20th Century. Some scholars argue that in the past five decades, the basic architecture of these age-old institutions has changed as…

Article comments on contributions to an issue of Educational Policy that focuses on glocal politics of education in multiple national and international arenas. Commentary offered considers the ways in which the set of articles in this issue of EP require readers to take scalar leaps across the semiotic landscape of the local into the global. The…

The federal government has repeatedly denied the introduction of creationism into public schools as it is a direct violation of the separation of church and state. Little is known about those who would opt to eliminate evolution in scientific curriculum altogether. The authors examined this more extreme anti-evolution perspective in a nationally…

This article describes a new syllabus offered at University of Toledo that focuses on guns and gun policy. The course provides students with learning opportunities on how to arm themselves with propaganda from both sides of the debate over how to apply the Second Amendment, the act that establishes "the right of the people to keep and bear…

In a series of reforms started in 1998 and formalized with the 2000 introduction of the Blueprint for Student Success, the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) implemented a wide-ranging series of reforms designed to boost the literacy skills of students. This article provides an overview of the reforms, assesses the contributions made by the…

A look at the British government's decision to support proposals for radio broadcasts of House of Commons proceedings. (Author/HB)

Describes the economic problems facing the United States and describes the pervasive poverty among some sectors of the population. Calls for a change in political leadership. (GC)

June 30, 1970. the Maine Supreme Court issued a conclusion that a state statute limiting public affairs programming violated the U. S. Constitution. The authors provide the background to that ruling and present an edited version of the FCC brief, filed May 22 with the State Supreme Court in the University of Maine's behalf." (Editor)

Comments on public broadcasting taken from the radio scripts of the famous cartoonist and self-appointed political sage, who believes educational television to be a network which is mainly the voice of those who despise the average guy and encourage his kids to despise him." (Author/LS)

The executive director of the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting writes a sarcastic but incisive response to the criticisms of educational television raised by Al Capp in the preceding article. (LS)

Reports that the democratization of the political system establishes a special type of reporting: the "so-called" investigative journalism. Defines the basic characteristics of this type of journalism--states that the journalist conducts the investigation very thoroughly, using special techniques/methods. Sees the journalist's role as…