Speaks first of freedom, next of violence, and then of their co-relationship in society in general. Where appropriate data or logic permit, freedom and violence are linked to the school setting and the educational process. (Author/AM)

Notes that blacks are destined to remain strangers in the land of opportunity and in the system of justice, except as persons suspected, accused, arrested, prosecuted, imprisoned, executed--all in disproportionate numbers. (Author/AM)

Addresses several aspects of Hawaii's experience with motivating educators to use new ideas and products developed by the Curriculum Research and Development Group. (Author/RK)

Describes the apparently infinite adaptability of public administrators to changes in executive priorities by examining budgeting under two successive, sharply contrasting chief executives in Delaware. (Author)

The growing political, social and linguistic power of Spanish Americans in the U.S. is discussed. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

State higher education officers agree that reforms of higher education have budgetary effects their supporters fail to consider, and they are in the position of having to explain the real costs of new programs and policies. (MSE)

Analyzes George Hansen's apologetic rhetoric from the perspective of a generic, "paranoid-style" of discourse to show why the Congressman was able to defend his character to the satisfaction of nearly one-half of his constituency. Uses the Hansen case to illustrate the development and function of a rhetorical genre in a given historical context.…

Employs Kenneth Burke's pentad to examine rhetorical choices made by former U.S. Congressman George Hansen as he dramatized two situations: his felony conviction and his subsequent reelection bid. Suggests that Hansen's rhetoric was largely effective because it resulted in substantial identification with the voters of Idaho's Second Congressional…

Analyzes the discourse of news programs on U.S. network television to show that, through a particular set of linguistic choices, major socioeconomic developments are ascribed to individuals, while politics and economics appear to function as logical entities in isolation from each other. (JD)

Develops and tests alternative political and ecological life-cycle explanations of the multidivisional form (MDF) now typical of large corporations. Unlike the functional or unitary form, MDF organizes tasks into units based on products or geographical markets. Banking firms are less diverse and less likely to use MDF. Includes 5 tables, 72…

The Director of the Program Evaluation and Methodology Division of the U.S. General Accounting Office discusses how evaluators and evaluation sponsors can become more sensitized to the organizational and political influences that shape the use of evaluation information in decision making. Job Training Partnership Act practitioners look at the…

Contends that the movement toward individualism in the United States has undercut the legitimacy of the community and public realm. Examines the extreme historical positions of individualists (Whigs) and collectivists (Tories) and argues for a synthesis between the two that invests rights in both the person and society and views individuals and…

Describes geopolitics as the branch of geography that explores the relationship between geographical realities and international affairs. The essential task of the discipline is to identify those geographical circumstances that explain the power interests, the character, and the behavior of nations. Includes a lesson plan that introduces students…

Argues that myth and ideology, as belief systems and modes of argumentative discourse, are structurally different but functionally similar. States the importance of distinguishing between the two and discusses the importance of analyzing them as they are used in systems of political argument. (GEA)