In this speech, the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, focuses on the civil rights enforcement record of the Justice Department under the Reagan Administration. First, in the area of voting rights, Reynolds describes how jurisdictions covered by the "preclearance" requirements of the…

Many school buildings are in dire need of renovation, expansion, or replacement. Brief case studies from around the country illustrate the importance of finding out why people vote for or against a construction referendum. Lists recommendations for a strategic campaign. (MLF)

In the 1988 KDES Presidential Election Project, deaf students (ages 6-15) at the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School conducted a voter registration. Students used computers to assemble lists of potential voters, analyze the lists, generate forms and banners, and trace election results. They set up polling places, generated campaign publicity,…

The ideology of higher education for women at Wellesley College in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is discussed in the context of feminism and the women's suffrage movement. "Symmetrical womanhood," a concept emphasizing balance of traditional roles and intellectual and community involvement, was a goal of Wellesley faculty of…

Describes the efforts of Thomas Dorr to expand voting rights in Rhode Island to nonlandowning males. Discusses his leadership in the 1841 election in which voters ratified a People's Constitution that extended voting rights to white males who did not own land. (CFR)

Black educational objectives will only be achieved if elected officials come to respect the power of an organized black vote. Suggests some ways in which black voters can put pressure on candidates to support policies, including those affecting higher education, favored by a majority of blacks. (SLD)

After three bond issues failed in De Soto, Kansas, the new superintendent, Marilyn Layman, moved immediately to build a districtwide consensus. A year later, voters passed a $14.7 million bond issue to construct a new high school and middle school with additional high and middle schools planned for the future. (MLF)

Provides background information on the election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden and how it was disputed over electoral votes. Includes copies of the electoral ballot from Louisiana that was rejected and a letter from William Kellogg, the Republican governor of Louisiana. (CMK)

Three voting behaviors and three types of volunteer participation were analyzed using longitudinal data from NELS:88/2000, a national sample of over 12,000 eighth graders in 1988 who were young adults in 2000. From 1994 to 2000 this cohort increased about 10% in both the three voting behaviors and the three volunteer participations. Wide…

During this past winter, election fever hit Canadian schools from coast to coast to coast. Elementary and secondary school students across Canada studied the democratic process and took their new found knowledge to their own ballot boxes. Nearly half a million students, aged nine through 18, cast a ballot through the national parallel election…

In this article, the author details how she and another teacher developed a multicultural Wisconsin history curriculum for a fourth-grade classroom. Their focus in this article is a description of the main ideas students learned and the instructional strategies that supported their learning from the three-week unit on Wisconsin government. They…

This paper describes an election simulation developed at Rutgers University (New Jersey) using Multimedia Toolbook. Toolbook has features which enable an information flow to be presented which mimics the flow of a campaign, using both text and video. Subjects are presented with textual information that flows across the screen, representing the…

This paper reviews the experiments done over the past 20 years with Televote, a generic term referring to voting by telecommunications (telephone, computers, etc.) As a method of public opinion polling, it is highly innovative and responsive to many of the criticisms often levied against public opinion research. The researcher describes work at…

This Winter 2006 issue of "Learners in Action" contains the following articles: (1) Premiers Honour Adult Learners; (2) Learning Difficulties?; (3) Awards; (4) Hats off to Jacques Demers!; (5) What Do You Think?; (6) Meet the Current Learners Advisory Network; and (7) "Learning Edge" is No Ordinary Magazine!.

Various indices of public support for the schools--school finance voting patterns, public opinion polls, and court litigation--are analyzed to document current trends. Two possible scenarios are forecast for the future, based on socioeconomic and demographic patterns. The need for future government support is stressed. (PP)