This statement responds to the need for all higher education leaders to consider the perspectives of external voices while resisting purely political or ideological agendas. Long-standing and recent external challenges to the traditions of citizen governing boards of colleges and universities make it necessary to distinguish between broad, often…

The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation presents 28 standards for assessing evaluation practices in elementary and secondary classrooms. Reviewed and approved by the American National StandardsInstitute, these standards are broken down into four essential attributes of sound evaluation, each providing definitions, guidelines,…

The purpose of the study described in this paper was to determine the facilitators and barriers teachers in middle-school mathematics classrooms faced when trying to implement equity and reform objectives. The study is set in the context of the Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) in Ohio known as Project Discovery. In 1995, a major evaluation of…

This book examines the impact of anticommunism on American campuses, using Rutgers University (New Jersey) from 1950 through 1965 as a case example. Following an introductory chapter which provides background information, chapter 2 discusses the period January 1950 to August 1952, when Cold War politics intensified at Rutgers University and the…

Article consists of an examination of the political controversy which arose in the state of Maharashtra when a plan for "educational development" was put forward for public consideration by the state cabinet in April 1968. (Author)

Reports a study examining the political advertising in the media and relates the findings to the voters' perception of the salience of the issues in the campaign. (TO)

An earlier article by the author ("A Call to Action", Adult Leadership, May, 1973) was criticized in a subsequent (September, 1973) issue of the journal. This article is the author's response to his critics in defense of his philosophy of adult education, which he restates. (AG)

This research replicated earlier research done in nonpartisan school district elections, concerning the effect of school board member incumbent defeat on nonvoluntary superintendent turnover. (Author)

Paper accounts for the creation and maintenance of the dual educational system in Israel and suggests that only a political explanation satisfies the continuation of that system. (Author/RK)

Author suggests that educational planning is a continuing process rather than the drafting of an educational blueprint. (Author/RK)

Excerpts from questionnaire sent in preparation for the World Conference on Adult Education to all member states of Unesco and to international nongovernmental organizations. (MB)

Strategy involved in procuring support for environmental issues and action is highlighted. To accomplish this, it is essential the public know the underlying attitudes of those whom they seek to influence, the sources of information which shape these attitudes, and the sources on which they rely for forming policy. (BL)

Considers existing mechanisms for international action on environmental improvement and accomplishments of European organizations to date. Suggests some of the problems and difficulties relative to establishing international environmental controls. (BL)

The roles played by technical experts in the federal policy-making process which led to the initiation, continuation, and, after ten years, the termination of the United States' civil supersonic transport project are considered as a case study of the influence of technical experts in presenting countervailing political pressures to represent the…

Enumerates and illustrates the frustrations involved in trying to make any real change in the inner-city school situation--frustrations inherent in the political decision-making apparatus which caused many of the problems it proposes to solve. (JS)