Discusses the public's acceptance of its responsibility to preserve, strengthen and extend higher education institutions. (Author)

Author evaluates school purposes, curricula, instructional strategies, and administrative policies as potential tools for counteracting the environment. (Author)

Discussion of various ways private and parochial schools could receive public aid without violating State and federal laws. (RA)

Suggests that journalists inadvertently reinforce the authority of local political groups through their use of objective language, imposition of orderly structure on the material, and selection of newsworthy articles. Notes the implications of these conclusions for local government. (RW)

In providing a 15-point program aimed at building public confidence, Florida A&M head lists integrity and relevance as key components. (Editor)

Suggests that a marketing approach can be applied to community mental health centers. Marketing is a management orientation of providing services for, not to, patients in a systematic manner, which can help mental health centers improve services, strengthen community image, achieve financial independence and aid in staff recruitment. (Author)

As financial times become tighter and dwindling resources are stretched, recreational administrators are looking at ways to maintain services and provide additional services without requiring more funds. Several creative management techniques and approaches that can be used are described. (CJ)

Outcries about the decline of civic institutions have initiated a return to civism, with partnerships forming between business, civic, and political leaders to work on civic problems, and a trend toward less government and more governance. This calls for civic education as a lifelong process, not just within the baccalaureate curriculum.…

Warns against haphazard "decrementalism" as a result of retrenchment. Suggest three different stages of development in U.S. public education. Argues that a community of commitment is possible if educational leaders reformulate the purposes of public education in a tough-minded and coherent way. (Author/WD)

The author contends that public support will ultimately determine whether the arts will prosper in the public school curricula, and that art teachers who can communicate with fellow teachers, students, parents, and administrators clearly, and can demonstrate exemplary curriculum practices, are the centerpieces of the public relations effort. (KC)

Maintains that educators can inspire confidence and generate enthusiasm for educational improvement and support within the classroom, the community, and the economic arena by adopting and projecting positive attitudes personally and publicly. (JD)

Discusses the federal government's role in supporting and, therefore, influencing the policy-making processes of the public broadcasting industry. (JMF)

In this theme issue, "Building Public Confidence in Education," the author makes a case for the need to build public confidence in the schools by analyzing the reasons for lack of confidence. He concludes that the "secret" to building public confidence consists of meeting public expectations. (KC)

Argues that the time is right for science educators to assume leadership and assist science as a discipline and the public-at-large in turning science from an instrument of national and global war to an instrument for establishing and preserving peace and a sustainable lifestyle for all citizens. (DDR)