Suggests how controversial topics in environmental management can be rationally discussed in a classroom setting, how maximum student participation can be attained, and how to prevent instructor domination in human ecology courses. A list of controversial topics for discussion is given. (BL)

Outlines the Marxist concept of individual freedom and the deviations which developed in Czechoslovakia unde Dubcek. (DM)

Although today's young people are greatly opinionated on many political issues, their knowledge of all the facts concerning these matters is appallingly lacking. (CK)

The question of lowering the voting age is discussed by Hubert H. Humphrey, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Monroe Sweetland, Charles Gonzales, A. L. Gallop, Lila S. Chase, Arnold Durfee, and Elizabeth A. Maguire. (JL)

The NEA Legislative Commission urges the support of its members in order to place education at the top of our national priorities. (JL)

Discusses need for development of higher education study programs that give due recognition to America's extensive black sub-culture and are designed to help Negro Americans realize their legitimate social goals of recognition and achievement. (JK)

Three problems discussed by panel of superintendents--(1) Teacher involves students in bond issue; (2) Parents say teacher uses "obscene books; (3) Bus drivers want to ban troublemakers. (NI)

Student protests during 1968 and 1969 were most prevalent at large universities, non-sectarian, 4-year colleges, and institutions that accept only students with high average ability and achievement levels. These and other institutional characteristics were found to be linked with campus unrest in a survey of a national sample of 427 institutions.…

Students can develop valuable research skills and learn about our political process by obtaining campaign finance reports filed by all candidates in federal elections. Other statistics and information available from the Federal Election Commission are also valuable learning tools. (Author/GC)

Discusses the results of the 1982 elections to the United States Congress and implications for the future of family and children's services and programs. (MP)

School closings may not be efficient. They cause political disruption, impede educational effectiveness (through overcrowded buildings and an aging staff), and show little evidence of saving enough money to justify the trouble. Instead, schools should expand, enter new areas, generate new revenues, and redefine their missions. (RW)