A study examined the quest for social equity by one adult education institution in New Zealand. It placed social equity in the wider context of recent developments in New Zealand society and explored models for conceptualizing social change. These models included the adaptive framework, helping/coping strategies, and allocation policies. A social…

An examination of Dorothy Day's role as chief journalist, editor, and publisher of "The Catholic Worker," the ideological monthly she cofounded in 1933, reveals that she was the final authority within the organization of the newspaper. Deeply committed to proselytizing for her cause, the Catholic Worker Movement, Day still simultaneously…

Findings and recommendations of the Executive Panel of the Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future are presented. The research was based on a comprehensive review of Americans' social welfare needs and of policy alternatives. The findings show that, although the present system was well conceived, it is now outdated and…

Twelve issues of the National Education Association's (NEA) newsletter for NEA members in higher education focus on the following subjects: (1) NEA endorsement of Dukakis candidacy, and organizing at Southern Illinois University; (2) Dukakis STARS plan: a solid solution, and the Dukakis advantage; (3) the 100th Congress: praise from NEA, and the…

Thirteen issues of the National Education Association (NEA) newsletter highlight the following: (1) Bork, Supreme Court nomination and NEA affiliate win on pay bias suit; (2) NEA presidential endorsements; (3) TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund) response to critics held inadequate; (4) NEA…

The rhetorical functions of history depend on the domain in which history is used, with no connotations of interpretive priority attaching to the social or the academic realm. The appropriation of history in support of social causes as radically opposed as socialism and fascism fuels the temptation to subsume history under ideology, with the…

In 1917, the Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education was created in New York. The Bureau was to be the news purveyor, publicity expert, and propaganda carrier, disseminating suffrage material through every available avenue of publicity. One of its departments, the Department of Editorial Correspondence, was chaired by Ida Husted Harper. Of her 66…

Argues that the McCarthy era, the civil rights struggle, and the Vietnam War all provided stimuli that shook up national identity and made belonging in this society questionable: unfortunately, the vast majority of those who had been shaken up found ersatz belonging--few became politically conscious. (Author/JM)

Article considered the establishment of industrial education in Canada and the close relationship between educational change and broader social reform. (Editor/RK)

Advocates the complete elimination of racism and sexism from the structure of American institutions and society in general. (SF)

The Native American Legal Defense and Education Fund, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is directed toward cases which involve education, civil rights, equal employment opportunities, Indian land problems, health services, and tribal sovereignty. (KM)

American Indian Legal Aid Programs throughout the country are briefly described. (KM)

This speech outlines the plight of black people under the present federal government administration. It is stated that the administration is not living up to the First Commandment of politics; that is, to help those who helped it. The administration has failed black people since it has not adequately addressed itself to a new domestic policy. The…

This book assesses the experience of medical schools during the last decade in their deliberate efforts to increase the number of minority students in medicine. Sources for the report include journal articles, a previously published survey and evaluation of equal educational opportunity in health professions schools, and visits to forty medical…