Retrenchment controversies as they influenced school policy and as they related to changes in educational politics in Detroit (Michigan) from 1929 to 1935 are examined. Investigated are questions such as, How was massive retrenchment undertaken?, What political alignments arose over the retrenchment issue?, and What were the long term…

Political scientists have much to learn through the practice of government. A political scientist discusses his experiences in running for a local school board position. He deals with four subjects: elections, interest groups, bureaucratic politics, and the political community. (RM)

Discusses formation, purpose, and activities of a secret television planning board of broadcasting professionals which advised Dwight D. Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential campaign, the first American political campaign in which television was broadly implemented. Existence and activities of this board are revealed in documents at Dwight…

Notes that both books reviewed seek to understand the forces that have shaped the Jews' social and psychological marginality in American society. (Author/AM)

This essay discusses the shift during the 1930s of black voters form the party of Lincoln to that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A select list of books and articles on blacks is also provided for secondary and college teachers who wish to treat this theme in the classroom. (Author/RM)

Concludes that integration is not a matter of interest exclusively to Negroes. The best of the country's leaders, black and white, have always understood it in a wider context--as a necessity for the nation at large. (Author)

Reports on the Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley, California, one of the most remarkable and probably the largest self-help enterprise of disabled people to have surfaced in the past 25 years. (Author/AM)

The publisher of "Scientific American" argues the importance of objective knowledge and self-government to the realm of science education. Militating against these principles, he states, are forces intervening in curriculum development--the federal government and reactionaries to the reform movement. (Author)

The significance of a college education in developing decisionmaking via question forming is emphasized in this brief historical review. Social and political influences are cited. (LBH)

The relationship between size and effectiveness of educational unit is examined from two viewpoints: how size has been used in political controversies over educational organization, and research evidence on the effects of different sizes of unit. It is suggested that size has not been used independently of historical or social context to explain…

Recommends a reclassification by scholars and teachers of issues relating to the cold war. Selections from analytical research works by political scientists and historians are offered as examples of general approaches to history and policy analysis. (Author/DB)

Describes the impressions and experiences of seven high school student journalists at the 1976 Democratic National Convention. (KS)

The debate over the nature of the relationship between politics and education is continued by a United States senator and the president of the University of Massachusetts. (LBH)

Discusses the controversy surrounding federal regulations imposed on colleges and universities to require removal of barriers to mobility of handicapped persons and guidelines for admission, testing, and counseling of handicapped persons. (MLH)

Provided is a summary of the 26th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs held August 26-31, 1976, in Muhlhausen, East Germany. World problems discussed included: arms limitations, military research and development, nuclear test ban, alternative energy sources, and genetic engineering. (SL)