Political events in 1902 and 1917 in the Netherlands affirmed parity subsidizing of private and public elementary schools. The history of those events, centering on educational policy, and their effect on the future of politics and education are explored in this article. (JH)

An administrator attempts to defend his professional behavior with a statement of principles designed to point out that the academic world is similar to the life outside it, full of apparent incompatibilities that had to be made compatible by the art of politics. (Author/RK)

Comprehensive Statewide planning requires a change to a more open political style that will enlarge the opportunities for educators to exert their leadership in the mix of politics and planning. Wider discussion of objectives, more realistic appraisals of education's role as a state resource, and reaching essential agreements with political…

Provides outlines, at both theoretical and applied levels, of appropriate curricular responses to high school student protest. (Author)

An economic model of consumer choice is used to link the separate theories that have dealt with comparative politics, job satisfaction, and organizational mobility. The model is used to structure data taken from studies of Turkish and French elites on environmental change, organizational mobility, and satisfaction. (Author/DN)

Examined the relationship between instructional workload and budgeting of personnel positions and how this relationship changes as personnel positions become scarce. Longitudinal data suggest a direct relationship between the bureaucratic model and personnel allocations; tendencies to use the bureaucratic model increase as personnel positions…

Introduces the concept of organizational culture, and attempts to understand how people behave in public offices by examining the myths, symbols, and rituals of the Prime Minister's Office of the Quebec (Canada) government. (CS)

Roosevelt is usually described as a liberal, but a number of recent books see him as essentially conservative. Suggests how these books can be used to study the New Deal era and the concepts of liberal and conservative. Comparative analysis could structure the teaching unit. (CS)

Historical background to Arkansas Act 590, mandating inclusion of creationism in public school curriculum, is given, including the history of antievolution bills, emergence of textbook watchers, and political issues in the law's passage. Suggestions are given for elementary and secondary teachers to become informed and active regarding…

Argues that political speech-making can have significant impact. Surveyed audiences of four presidential candidates during the 1976 Illinois primary. Analyzed attitude/behavior changes and motivations for attendance. Noted that, while the strongest motivations were of a cognitive-orientation nature, reasons related to event excitement were…

Examined the concepts of legitimacy and deviance. Investigated the hypothesis that U.S. media support centrist political groups by delegitimizing deviant political groups. Found some supporting evidence that media coverage of deviant political groups makes them seem ridiculous and eccentric. Discussed implications for journalists and journalism…

Argues that the Reagan administration is dismantling the educational efforts of the past 50 years, which could result in chaos. Suggests that state departments are incapable of exercising leadership in the absence of a federal role. Predicts the abandonment of educational research and special concerns and the demise of equality. (Author/WD)

Focuses on administrators, particularly those at the University of California at Berkeley, and the rhetoric they used in response to student protest. Outlines the major lines of argument that administrators traditionally use and concludes that administrative rhetoric, as genre, is an undemocratic response to protest. (PD)

Argues that recent theories of development are flawed because (1) they assert that social justice and economic development are compatible educational aims and (2) they give insufficient attention to the political contexts of policy-making. Part of a theme issue on the World Bank Paper and Third World educational development. (SJL)