A plea is made for teachers to become politically active participants in the 1980 state and federal elections. Support of the incumbent President is suggested. (LH)

Introduces a theoretical framework applicable to the political and social uses made of humor. Focuses on the uses individuals make of jokes and joking in relation to the constant interchange involved between institutional stability and social change. (FL)

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)

Reports on the annual meeting of the American Federation of Teachers and of the National Education Association. Both meetings were dominated by presidential politics and by federal-level concerns such as the Department of Education and federal aid. (IRT)

Discusses teacher unions as political forces in the 1980 presidential election. Notes that many, but not all, of the positions teachers are fighting for at the federal level are the same as those favored by boards and administrators. (IRT)

Analyzes the visual content of the televised presidential debates between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford and determines the differences in how each candidate was portrayed by the television medium. (JMF)

Describes the controversies taking place in Sweden, West Germany, and England regarding the advisability of government subsidies as a way of maintaining a free and viable press in a period of economic strife. (JMF)

Compares the 1960 and 1976 presidential debates as part of the political campaign and concludes that the differences between the two in terms of format and content are minor. (JMF)

The audio breakdown during the first Ford-Carter presidential debate in the 1976 presidential campaign raises questions concerning the role of the media in this news event and whether the debate was a news event without regard to television coverage. (JMF)

Communicating a gestalt rather than developing an argument, this article suggests politics and education are permanently joined, an inherently conflicting proposition which can and should be viewed as an opportunity to humanize education. (JC)

Defines a rhetorical genre as a recurrent distinctive relationship among the elements of occasion, audience and speaker-role and examines five incidents which produced discourse constituting a rhetorical genre. (MH)

Describes how a group of teachers, librarians, and other citizens, concerned about attacks on curriculum and public education itself, formed a grass-roots group called Michigan for Public Education to advocate educational equality and excellence. Describes how they got started, why people got involved, and what they have learned. Offers…

Studies visual discourses and visual modes of viewer engagement structuring negative political commercials. Finds that, using strategies of pictorial direct address and pictorial narrative, texts construct their visual arguments by creating ambiguity around the natural versus symbolic status of pictorial expression. Shows how pictorial realism can…

Argues that, when American schools fail, it is because they are still educating (and often educating well) for the Industrial Age, whereas American schools need to educate for the Information Age, which has different requirements for successful life and work. (SR)

Describes and explores the activities of members of a listserv group in their efforts to defend bilingual education in Arizona. Attempts to delineate ways in which such a "virtual" group develops the cohesion it requires to sustain its activities in the absence of direct, face-to-face contact. (Author/VWL)