Focuses on some of the most important features of world and national political campaigns as constructed by and presented in television network news primarily in the 1976 presidential campaign. (MH)

An in depth examination of the NAACP's role in the fight against the confirmation of President Hoover's nomination of John J. Parker to the Supreme Court in 1930 provides one illustration of how the NAACP developed its style of pressure politics. (Author/AM)

This study of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) extends and elaborates on the characteristics of redemptive organizations. SNCC is of interest because it attempted to do two things: to be political and to offer its members the satisfaction of a redemptive ethos. (Author/AM)

Notes that party decomposition is likely to continue. The probable future pattern is one where the major parties continue to exert influence on the voting choices of the American public, but where many voters are available for mobilization by competing movements. (Author/AM)

Examines three issues: (1) street journalism, (2) the assimilation of West Indian women to Afro-American women's political standards, and (3) the growth of a political sense of community in black New York. (Author/AM)

Notes that there is inconsistency between the philosophical basis of the American immigration policy and the legal status of the immigrant in the labor market. (Author/AM)

Reports on a comparison of coverage of the Democratic and Republican parties by 12 Ohio metropolitan newspapers in the 1971 Ohio municipal election campaigns. (GW)

Describes Congressional hearings into the amendment of legislation regulating Congress' Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). (SL)

This paper offers suggestions for changing high school microeconomics courses so that they might better reflect new thinking and new uncertainties in economics. Included is a section on goals for teaching economics in secondary schools. (JDH)

This article offers an analysis of Strober's paper (see SO516707) on the scope of microeconomics. It concludes that useful suggestions are made regarding modifications needed in the Joint Council's "Framework" and "Master Curriculum Guide." (JDH)

Presents challenges for gerontological education, in light of the policy environment of retrenchment and cutbacks. Discusses the demographics of an aging society in terms of future need for trained professionals and an adequate research base. Argues for a firm commitment to aging research and education. Urges political action and involvement with…

Higher education must tell legislatures how the state should raise the money the colleges want to spend--even if it means higher taxes--and then lobby on behalf of those proposals. This also means addressing new and potentially controversial issues about the role of colleges in state politics. (MLW)

Provides advice to help school districts pass bond referenda. Includes lists of why referenda fail and win and ways to develop a successful bond campaign including a referendum timeline. (MD)

Discusses the belief system approach to foreign policy analysis which recognizes that individual, national, and international attributes contribute to a group's world-view. Identifies three U.S. belief systems and states that the geopolitical view, which aligns the world into zones of U.S.-USSR influence, has been predominant toward the Pacific…

Presented at the National Council for the Social Studies annual meeting in Dallas on November 16, 1987, this article discusses issues such as military spending, peaceful competition with other nations, and minority group affairs, which face the United States and its students as the year 2000 approaches. (GEA)