A university as a body should not take an official stand on disputed political or moral questions. (Editor)

College administrators must win support from students and faculty, must consult more freely with them on policy decisions, and must keep more closely in touch with all segments of society. (IR)

Paper presented at the Fifteenth Duke University Conference on Teaching the Social Studies

Addresses economic, political, and ideological aspects of race which one needs to be concerned about when teaching about this subject. (MP)

Examines how the National Education Association (NEA) has shifted from a conservative position to a more progressive one, which emphasizes militancy on such issues as equity and abolition of normative testing. Suggests that, in concentrating on politically charged matters, NEA has neglected a more important concern: the successful schooling of…

Junior Statesmen of America is an extracurricular organization that gives high school students practical experience in self-government and enhances leadership and political education. (SK)

Concludes that voters need a frame or a point of reference for determining the campaign relevance of issues and that, therefore, framing is a crucial consideration in the media agenda-setting process. (FL)

Aurora (Colorado) public schools followed 10 suggestions to win a recent bond election, including starting a year before the election, analyzing community relations, establishing a citizens' committee and an election task force, developing resource materials (including fact sheets), setting a timetable, seeking out "yes" votes, and…

The author is concerned with certain principles and devices built into the constitutional system, their current status, the role of the citizen, qualities of the competent citizen, and the role of the university in citizenship education. (SK)

The trend toward competency-based education and competency testing is the work of legislators and politicians, not educators. Some of the latter express serious reservations about it. The minimum competency testing movement is a result of the effort to integrate minorities into the mainstream of society. (JOW)

Board members running for reelection against teacher union opposition should differentiate classroom teachers from the union, promote their board experience, research the issues, prepare early for the campaign, analyze the reasons for union opposition, anticipate psychological warfare, mount a positive defense, admit mistakes, and turn union…

Summarizes the 10-year accomplishments of Students for Environmental Quality from Bellport High School, New York, including successful halting of local waste oil pollution, instigating state laws to prohibit seal killing and protect the Carmans River wetlands, and details current efforts to assist in passage of a state "bottle bill."…

Argues that educators and researchers should become more active in making the decisions that affect education, such as minimum competency testing. (FL)