Author offers perspectives on the word accountability and considers its implications in education. (MB)

Discusses the relation between educational and political components of contemporary student rebellion, and indicates how curriculum workers are to respond to the potentially revolutionary situation in our schools. (DE)

The politicizing of public schools has good and bad results. In Philadelphia two politicians, Sheed and Dilworth, used politics to reform the educational system. The reforms were generally beneficial. (MF)

Suggests that theories of automatic regulation in nature, society, and government encourage political complacency and ecological catastrophe when elevated to ideology. Believes that scientists should actively seek to indoctrinate and educate the public and government. (AL)

Five problems that led to failure of a nineteenth-century attempt in Germany to mainstream hearing impaired children concerned teachers' practical maintenance of skills and motivations; class pacing; and political changes. The authors suggest those same problems face current American efforts. (CL)

Traces the origins of Marxism and surveys its political, intellectual, and educational effects in the United States and Canada. Comments upon Marxist critiques of education, reviewing Bowles and Gintis's "Schooling in Capitalist America" and Apple's "Ideology and Curriculum." (DMM)

Presents an historical perspective on the current hostilities over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. The validity of British and Argentinian claims to the islands is evaluated. The social and political problems which motivated the Argentinian government to reclaim the islands by force are considered. (AM)

A study was conducted to determine whether the tenets of rural social work were applicable only to the developing countries or whether they were also meaningful in the context of other industrial nations of the West. (CT)

The use of boycott as a political tool of enforcing exclusion from the Olympic Games is shown to be ineffective, illegal, cynical, and misguided. (JMF)

Examines whether decision strategies used in personnel management are related to decision context, why there is congruence between decision strategy and context for some functions as opposed to others, and the implications of congruence/incongruence for an understanding of the relationship between merit and politics. (Author/IRT)

Cites negative stereotypes and cultural differences as barriers to unity among Black Americans and immigrants from the Caribbean islands. Calls for political unity of the two groups, based on the fact that they are perceived and discriminated against as one by the dominant White majority. (GC)

Reports that television news coverage of a gubernatorial campaign was relatively light in part because television newspersons were skeptical of the news value of many campaign events. (FL)