Reviews undergraduate public finance textbooks for content, difficulty, and ideology. Includes tables summarizing the percentage space devoted to specific topics in 13 popular textbooks. Offers suggestions for supplementary materials. (Author/DH)

To ease the pain of closing two delapidated high schools, the East Chicago (Indiana) City Schools threw a gala alumni farewell party. To organize a similar event, superintendents should galvanize staff, win the school board's support, publicize the event, involve the community, use incentives to boost attendance, encourage creativity, and keep a…

The role of industry in support of science is emphasized on the basis that it pays most of the wages, salaries, and dividends from which the tax dollars are drawn. (DF)

Irrationalism is discussed as a studied and articulated attitude, proudly affirmed and elaborately defended. (DF)

A look at the possibility that limited public funding for public broadcasting will result in program censorship and control by the funding source. (AK)

After the 5-year period of disruption on U.S. campuses, administrators must work at winning back public support of higher education. (HS)

Plans should be initiated to inform Americans how to exercise their rights and privileges in the area of philanthropic giving. (IR)

Identifies the organizational and public contact strategies used successfully by school supporters in three school funding elections in the Clayton (Missouri) School District between 1975 and 1980. Notes the types of voters contacted by block workers prior to the 1980 election and analyzes their subsequent voting behavior. (PGD)

The library that is embedded in educational settings is a part of the technology of education. From this viewpoint the author discusses the ways the library can seek a relationship with the public it serves. (BD)

Although nonvocational adult education makes many contributions to society, it is undervalued and inadequately funded. Advocates should stress its role in providing second chances, preserving older adults' independence and active citizenship, and performing therapeutic functions. (SK)

Proposes that the increasing disavowal of public schools results from experience with day-by-day disinviting behaviors. The suggested remedy is for educators to evaluate their on-the-job responses to their patrons. Wherever subminimal interpersonal conditions are identified, participants should learn to invite people to education. Presents a case…

Reviews why academic medicine's institutions are unique and valuable; explains why the marketplace model, which has recently begun to dominate health care, does not work in this arena; and presents five approaches that leaders in academic medicine should take to work for the public good and strengthen public trust and support. (EV)