A model educational system should provide instruction for the future and reflect national as well as international educational traditions. (Author/KM)

This paper explores the dimensions of a classroom climate that would most effectively facilitate the learning of human values. (Editor)

Condensed from "Today's Education, Volume 57 (November 1968), 63.

This essay discusses the moral basis for free market education, reform and market concepts, free market education's impact on democratic values, and the views of its founder. Free market education is an application of traditional American values to primary and secondary education. Through use of a voucher system, free market education awards each…

The evaluation of instructional material to be selected for the school situation is discussed. Changing values of present day society are noted, and three general criteria are suggested for selection of materials. (1) The economics of the matter may be least important in the long run. It is not what we protect students from but what we can expose…

This book discusses education (and its relevance) in the broadest sense, as not merely the formal training of students, but a process that all thoughtful people are engaged in throughout their lives. Searching questions are asked about basic attitudes. The main concern here is the quest for new values and life-styles and more satisfying modes of…

Examination is made of a theory that claims that though schools are ostensibly committed to the personal development of the student and to providing equality of opportunity, their real purpose is to integrate youth into society to reproduce the inequalities of everyday life in capitalist America. (JD)

Suggests that democratic principles regarding competence, independence, cooperation, and rational authority should guide English teachers' work. (DD)

Describes the despair and sense of betrayal by ideology and rhetoric that are part of being homeless. Identifies three major problems in ideological rhetoric deserving programmatic research, and suggests rhetorical criticism as a way of remedially exploring democratic ideology in crisis. (JK)

A lesson plan focusing on Amendments VI and XIV to the Constitution and due process of law through the right to trial by jury is offered. Primary and intermediate students participate in the fictional trial of a weaver charged with selling goods under false pretenses. Teaching procedures and related activities are suggested. (MT)

Shows how "The A-Team" is a purveyor of myth through its re-working of hero and plot motifs and its reaffirming of a positive American self-concept. (EL)

Illustrates the relationships between John C. Calhoun's slavery-era political philosophy regarding minority rights within a democratic political organization and the actions of Daniel P. Moynihan as United States' Ambassador to the third-world-dominated General Assembly of the United Nations. (JDH)

Reviews the 1984 book of Bernard Semmel, "John Stuart Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue." (JDH)

Reviews Alvin Moore Jr.'s 1983 translation of Tage Lindbom's "The Tares and the Good Grain." (JDH)

Discusses myths of journalism that are perpetuated in undergraduate journalism classes. Describes techniques for teaching undergraduates to take a more critical stance concerning journalism issues. (HTH)