A four-month investigation was conducted of media coverage of two controversies involving government officials in Detroit, Michigan. Data were gathered from three sources: journalists involved in covering the stories, people involved in the stories, and the printed stories. Using public documents, the history of one of the controversies was…

Commemorating the end of George Orwell's year, 1984, the majority of articles in this journal issue are devoted to some aspect of language. The first article alerts teachers to the need for a critical examination of Orwell's underlying assumptions about language change in "Politics and the English Language." The next five articles deal…

Reports on the leaders and policies of the two million unionized teachers whose delegates held national conventions this past summer. (Author/WM)

Author compared art education in this society with a system of art education based on a completely different social and political context from our own. His intention was to explore the role art education plays and might play in relationship to society. (Author/RK)

This chapter examines the political science concepts of control, political participation, and representation, focusing on the limits of participation and representation as control devices, especially from the point of view of the individual citizen. The author discusses the question of who controls the schools and then considers in turn some of…

Secondary students learn about the process of becoming President of the United States in this social studies unit. The unit traces the steps that a fictional candidate takes from the Presidential primaries through National Party Conventions and election campaigns, to the Presidential office in the White House. A candidate proceeds through the…

Canada is the second largest country in the world and contains two dominant languages and cultures, the French-speaking province of Quebec and the English-speaking border cities. To maintain some link between the two coasts, the government requires that its national broadcasting system contribute to the development of national unity and present a…

On 9 September 1976, the Aspen Institute Program on Communications and Society, the League of Women Voters, and the Post/Newsweek Broadcast Stations sponsored a public meeting in New York. The subject of the meeting was politics and television; the participants were leading political advertisers, journalists, and researchers. This monograph…

On Friday, June 20, 2003, the "New York Times" reported that, "This was the year that school reform began in Philadelphia. The state has taken over the school system, which had been failing for years and brought in seven outside managers to run 45 of the lowest performing elementary and middle schools." In fact, this was the…

Discusses four issues: the difference between policy research and basic research; the importance of policy research for basic research; the generalizability of field studies; and the relationship of both of the professor in the professional school to the client in the field and of the professional school to the overall society. (JM)

To increase compliance with school laws, and in this case, public school service to the private sector, the author suggests that political strategies that have proved effective in non-educational policy areas be applied to educational politics at the local and legislative level. (BJG)

The future promises to be a difficult time for state planning and coordination, when evaluation must take into account the ways in which state agencies relate to and deal with the contexts of which they are a part. The political context is one of the most important of these. (Author/PG)

Asserts that the logical and factual discussions on such matters as budget allocations in both the legislative and executive branches are merely a rational crust under which, it is stated, deeper negative emotions flow about research in general, education in general, and educational research in particular, and discusses four action alternatives to…

Summarizes the organizational process and political bargaining models of policy change, and considers the rational decision-making model as an alternative. Models are interrelated with each other to show how each reveals a dimension of the politics of school decentralization. (Author/AM)