Describes technological changes in six areas (communications, manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, product distribution, and finance) that have not yet been absorbed into the nation's school systems. Massive demographic, sociological, and political changes are also challenging today's change-resistant schools. (MLH)

While metropolitan school systems are moving toward decentralization and personalized instruction, rural America is still being coerced into consolidations and district mergers. The Annenburg Rural Challenge, a force for nontraditional reform, is sponsoring bold, community-based initiatives aimed at transforming teaching and learning in genuinely…

Early stages of the development of educational philosophy in the United States involved the social reform movement of the 1890s, populism, progressivism, social science, literary history, muckraking, Hull House, and the work of Herbert Spencer and John Dewey. (SK)

This report assesses the changes in language use, based on political and cultural uses, around the world and specifically in Thailand. Early global theories divided the nations of the world into central, semiperipheral, and peripheral. Later, this classification was changed to developed nations, developing nations, and the Third World. Then came…

Although women are gaining the rights to higher education and to employment in the professions they are still expected to care unfailingly for home and family. Women are torn between their professional lives and their domestic lives. Middle class women free from class obligations must help the less fortunate women. (MR)

In examining the Frankfurt School's critical theory of society in an effort to discover the theoretical basis for the school's inability to merge theory with praxis, this paper points out that the school's analysis of culture in the 1930s and 1940s presents a radical, penetrating critique of the role of mass communication in advanced…

Author takes an unromantic look at the real possibilities of making industrial work more satisfying. (Editor/RK)

Article evaluated the assessment of public education made by futurists and spokesman, Alvin Toffler. (Author/RK)

Sixty-nine books and governmental reports published between 1843 and 1977 are listed in this bibliography on the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was compiled for persons seeking research information on black culture. Among the subjects included in the bibliography are Virgin Island folklore, archaeology, industrial development, and history. A 1917 census,…

The photographs of Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Wickes Hine are graphic accounts of the urban industrial United States during the Depression of the 1930s. Hine was a sociologist who initially used his camera to promote social reform and is best remembered for his photographs of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York, and of children laboring in…

The document examines the evolution of kibbutzim in Israel. The author suggests that a primary factor in the kibbutz development is the nature and structure of Israeli modernization efforts. The efforts encompass national ideology, industrialization, and legitimization of certain forms of social interaction. This mode of modernization stands in…

The mass media in the United States have played a major role in the emergence of a mass society resulting from the interaction of urbanization, industrialization, and modernization and have thus become an integral part of the total social fabric. Society's culture and social structure shape its system of mass communication so that the development,…

Technology's continued advance has created as much anxiety and fear as it has satisfaction. Movements of criticism and opposition to the current state of scientific civilization have been caused by factors such as the discovery and use of nuclear weapons, the gap between the rich nations and the underdeveloped countries of the world, and to…

Discusses the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen in the form of ammonia as one of the foundations of modern chemical industry. The article describes ammonia production and synthesis, purifying the hydrogen-nitrogen mix, nitric acid production, and its commericial plant. (HM)

First in a three-part series of case studies tracing the impact of the "Anglo Revolution" on New Mexico, this article deals with copper mining in New Mexico, particularly the Santa Rita del Cobre copper mine. (NQ)