This paper comments on program and policy issues concerning school-age day care. The issues discussed are as follows: (1) what kind of day care provision do school-age children prefer? (2) what constitutes a high quality day care program? and (3) how can parents, the general public, and politicians be persuaded to support and finance day care…

Historical data reveal that U.S. government policy and military and corporate interests have been instrumental in the development of nuclear energy and the underdevelopment of solar energy. It was not until 1972 that solar energy was funded by the Energy Research and Development Agency (ERDA) and in 1974 solar energy received $12.2 million as…

This manual is intended to help citizen groups set up their own on-the-job training activities, tailored to their own individual needs, issues, learning styles, and experiences. Specifically, it discusses ways citizens or citizen groups can use the governmental processes to solve social problems and how they can develop clout to hold governmental…

The agenda setting hypothesis of mass media effects, which maintains that the mass media set the agenda of public discussion and determine which items are to be discussed and which ignored, was tested. Agenda was defined as an attribute of individual respondents to be compared with those of various media. In a preliminary study, a group of 59…

Because complex social and political situations with far-reaching consequences increasingly call for swift administrative response from colleges and universities, the 10th Annual College and University Self-Study Institute addressed itself to the following questions: What kind of situation will the administrator face if he follows the course of…

One trait of the ideology of relevance is "external justification," which requires that curricula and courses be justified through their contributions to the amelioration or elimination of social or political evil. Another trait is "tactical redescription," which redefines some fundamental qualities of education as being of positive disvalue.…

Three ways to develop curriculum materials dealing with controversial political issues are described. Currently the two most popular approaches are the general theoretical discussion of important concepts and case studies. Whereas the theoretical approach may be too abstract and the case study approach too brief, a third approach combines the…

This book is a collection of articles loosely arranged under the topics of alternatives to schools, educational governance and politics, and other issues in education. The introduction states that the collection is intended to inspire thinking about non-school settings in which teachers can be employed and people can pursue continuing education,…

In a presidential election campaign, any dimension of an image is important if it motivates the voters to favor or disfavor a candidate. Therefore, to study what motivates electoral behavior is one way to study the persuasion of image building in presidential campaigns. In this paper some of the research in presidential election campaigns is…

This mastery test is designed to accompany unit 5 of the second-semester 12th-grade course, "Comparing Political Experiences." The 25-item multiple-choice test was developed by the National Evaluation Systems, Inc. in conjunction with the project directors to determine whether the unit objectives have been achieved. The test measures…

This paper presents a conceptual analysis of bias and outlines the complexity and subtlety of the questions engulfing bias by sorting out views of bias that have been implicit in debates about the media, assessing the scientific value of these competing views in identifying and understanding bias in the media, offering an alternative view which is…

In order to make a case for the study of political propaganda in the secondary English curriculum, this study details the history of previous attempts to incorporate the issue into the structure of formal education and presents a model unit for use in the contemporary educational system. Designed to move the student through the study of…

State departments of education, administrators, educational testing systems, and the media are demanding uniformity of instructional units and of performance objectives for community college English courses. Limited funds and the desire to promote a favorable public image are factors encouraging standardization of instruction. Presently, policy…

The document reviews nine separate bills which were introduced to the Illinois General Assembly in 1973 to implement Article X of the 1970 Illinois Constitution by creating a State board of education. Also discussed is a House Joint Resolution which is under consideration and which is a constitutional amendment that would revert the State to the…

In order to account for the demise of American student activism, some explanation for its occurence in the first place seems useful. Such explanations involve reference to family socialization, university conditions, societal-based issues, and to the possibility of social change. Sociological explanations appear to focus on the causation,…