Latin America's rapid change in recent years has prompted the American Forum for Global Education to take a closer look at this important and dynamic region. This booklet summarizes how Latin America should be viewed in today's global world and highlights strategies for teaching these ideas. The booklet consists of the following four sections. The…

The Slovak society is in the process of transformation. The main direction of transformation is political, from the totalitarian to the democratic society. The growing cultural variety of Slovakia increases the importance of multicultural education for student teachers. This curriculum guide for multicultural education in teacher training in…

This paper argues that political conflict over educational policy at the local level is cultural in its origins and represents a deep division in U.S. society about the values that should be taught in the public schools. The research reported in the paper focused on a single case study of a recall election in the Orange Unified School District…

From a political standpoint, the battle over sexuality education is not simply a dispute over the most effective means to promote the sexual and reproductive health of youth; but rather, a clash over the shape and direction of society itself. (McKay, 1999). This paper explores the theoretical underpinnings of the debate over the content and scope…

This packet presents educational materials to help teachers, students, and parents understand homelessness. Section 1, "America's Homeless Children: Educational Information for Students, Teachers, and Parents," discusses what it is like to be homeless, how many children are homeless, how homelessness is harmful, how children become homeless, and…

This book of essays offers an international perspective on how the concepts of war and peace develop in children and how, through overt teaching of conflict resolution and peacemaking skills in schools, a more peaceful world can be created. Following an introduction, the 14 essays in the book are grouped in 3 parts: (1) "Developmental…

In an era of devolution in much social policy, many initiatives seek to improve child, youth, and family well-being through locally-governed, data-driven partnerships. These partnerships are not limited to savvy technical reform of policies or programs. They target a change in political will, policy agendas, and policy implementation arrangements,…

The license renewal applications of each of 109 radio stations, selected as a stratified random sample of all radio stations which type themselves as being black oriented to some degree, were content analyzed in an attempt to document the community needs perceived by black-oriented radio stations. (JM)

Compares and contrasts the American and West German constitutions regarding questions of educational innovation, reviewing three strategies of educational innovation and pointing to the need to look at the political process itself in terms of educational innovation. (Author/JM)

As the judiciary proved inadequate to protect the right to vote of newly emerging politicized groups, other institutions were called upon to deal with the growing problem of political participation--a challenge to the traditional American optimism regarding this question. (Author/JM)

Attempts to justify increased involvement of black behavioral scientists as health specialists in efforts to improve black health conditions; specifies types of roles which are or ought to be available to black sociologists. (Author/RJ)

The text of a speech which the author delivered at the Black Consciousness Conference, University of Detroit, May 5, 1972. (JM)

Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1972; focuses on the interrelationship of urban structures of dominance, alternative value or meaning systems, and social control. (JM)

An analysis of the President's budget message to the Congress and the provisions of the budget itself which sees the policy therein expressed as the by-product of a view of society and of the proper role of government that is incompatible with the implementation of the precious rights won by minorities in recent years. (Author/JM)

Discusses how the minority school administrator should go about defining his role in the social and power structure of an integrated school, emphasizing that if he defines his role as that of minority expert'' then he is assigning himself a very peripheral position with respect to decision-making. (JM)