The nature and extent of the news media coverage of political advertising in the presidential campaign of 1972 was shallow and spotty at best. The candidates' political advertising strategies received limited coverage by reporters and commentators. Even the "prestige" press--16 major newspapers--provided limited coverage to the nature…

Several explanations are proposed for community attitudes about the school system. The author claims that the most important factor affecting these attitudes may be the school's failure to develop effective ways of carrying on continuous dialogue with its community. The author specifies that an educator should subject his community to a regular…

"Exploring Television" is an inquiry/discovery textbook designed to help students to understand, analyze, criticize, evaluate, and judge the experiences they have had in front of the television set. The text consists of three main parts. "The Medium" inquires into the radio-movie origins of television and prompts research into the networks and…

This report, the result of a 5-day conference on the politics of education, reviews the four research focus areas covered during the conference: (1) new goals and objectives for educational institutions, (2) the political education of youth, (3) analysis of the governance of educational institutions, and (4) the study of input/output/feedback…

United States district judges have, regardless of their personal views the awesome assignment of forcing compliance with the Supreme Court's 1954 school segregation decisions. In the District of Columbia and in the border states of Missouri, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland, for the most part authorities have completed, or are…

The author discusses the legal and extra-legal restrictions placed on public broadcasting stations, with respect to dissemination of political information. Although public broadcasting systems presumably exist as an alternative medium free of the commercial and time pressures that commercial stations face, the author claims that restrictions on…

This monograph reports an exploratory study of legislative behavior in the field of education. The study sampled a large number of legislators' rollcall votes involving educational policy under various conditions of partisanship. The specific objectives of the study were to (1) determine the changes that occur in patterns of rollcall voting on…

A conflict-cooperation-conflict model is offered of the genesis, functioning, and aftermath of an inter-governmental and inter-professional program in a major city. Outputs prior to this linkage are perceived as generating major conflicts which eventually were settled by decisions to parcel out certain school building responsibilities among city…

A constant theme running throughout this book is that the principles of Soviet military instruction are fundamentally different from the principles of training in western military establishments. The overriding concern of this theme is that purposefulness and the Communist Party approach are the essence of the entire Soviet educational process.…

The back-to-basics movement in part has resulted from public alarm over the increase in functional illiteracy--students' inability to solve everyday problems requiring basic language and mathematics skills. Although not all its adherents are politically and educationally conservative, those who support fundamentalist schools certainly are. These…

This study examines some of the characteristics of decision-making on school boards, focusing on the behavior of southern school board members in comparison with their counterparts in other regions of the country. Data were collected in 1975 at the convention of the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Self-administered questionnaires were…

Legislative influence on the process of curriculum development is examined in this study of the Louisiana Legislature's Bill proposing a required course in the "Free Enterprise System" for high school students. The origins of the Bill, the debate for and against, and implications for curriculum research are outlined. (JMF)

Discusses the role of the school in a changing society. Although France is the model, the discussion has international implications. Topics discussed include the former elitist system, the difficulty of equalizing opportunity, teacher roles, employment, permissiveness, values, the politicization of school and university, and administrative…

It will be in the classroom and through the process of education, involving school, home, and student, that integration ultimately will fail or succeed. The city, the media, parents, school volunteers, principals, and teachers can all contribute to the peaceful and successful integration of schools. (Author/EB)

Finds that Khrushchev's and Brezhnev's regimes are characterized by improvements in living standards and reduction in social equalities. However, each regime differs in regard to priorities and the pace of progress. Evaluation of the two eras must consider incremental, industrialization, and collectivization eras. (KC)