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Wirt, Frederick M. – Society, 1977
Concludes that the immediacy of political conflict in local schools over the last decade has provided a teaching surrogate. The salience of such school issues for the young has been greater than many other kinds of local and national politics, and it should have had greater effect on political learning than traditional classroom instruction.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Learning Processes, Political Attitudes