Described is a social studies unit designed to help elementary school children understand the process of elections through participation in a mock election. Teaching preparation is discussed and activities for each day of the 18-day unit are presented. (Author/DB)

The accelerating demographic and economic changes within our society, the deepening racial divide, and the elusive quest for equality and justice make multicultural education and understanding the culturally diverse student imperative. The gap between the rich and poor has widened, visible signs of the racial crisis have become stark, and the rate…

Education, ingenuity, and perseverance have always been important components of the American dream. Today, a college degree is an increasingly critical milestone on the road to personal independence and career success. The individual gains from education are more obvious, but society also benefits substantially from the skills and knowledge of…

This paper discusses school-home dialogue: its benefits; its theoretical underpinnings (Plato, Dewey, Hegel); perspectives on parent involvement, including societal changes that seem to produce barriers to communication between homes and schools (changes in family structure and role, time/schedule problems, distance, and educational bureaucracy);…

This volume integrates critical curriculum theory with best practice, extending John Dewey's and Maxine Greene's progressive educational philosophy into these two realms. The authors of the seven essays selected four theoretical topics and then applied these theories to practitioners' work. The book was constructed around a series of conversations…

The distinguishing characteristics, content and processes, and the variations of essential elements that are exemplified by projects in the United States and abroad in education for democratic citizenship are presented in this book. The volume addresses how international partnerships involving the United States and several post-communist countries…

Determining the value of school-choice programs depends on an assessment of consequences on the differing elements of the school system. The International Conference on School Choice and Educational Change at Michigan State University explored the themes of governance, equity and access, innovation, student outcomes, and accountability from the…

This article analyzes a study that examined Georgia charter-school teachers' and principals' perceptions of the ideal and actual practices in eight key areas of shared decision making: budgeting, curriculum/instruction, facilitating procedures, goals/visions/mission, operations, staffing, staff development, standards, and their overall impressions…

Social education of high school students should consist of a joint practice of negotiation by school adults and students in the handling of real school conflicts. (KM)

A cross-cultural study of attitudes toward the understanding of law provides a framework for examining levels of moral development of all children. Tentative optimism about the future of society is expressed. (Author/JB)

A number of third-grade social studies texts were analyzed with regard to six categories: civic orientations, benefits received, value words, symbolic references, authority figures and hero images. The political world...presented in these textbooks is one in which authority is benevolent and social conflict is minimal. (Author)

The Student Rights Strategy is a strategy for providing high school people with humanizing experience. (Author)

Authors propose several hypotheses that can be scientifically tested to answer the question as to what benefits might reasonably be expected if children are taught in a setting with attitudes and behaviors congruent with a democratic ideology. (Authors/MB)

A look at the new relationships which the law has prescribed for students, teachers, and administrators. (Author)

Ways values influenced collection, presentation, and interpretation of data in the report "Public and Private Schools" (Coleman, Hoffer, and Kilgore, 1981) are discussed. This article's author (Conner) states that the report's authors, in their zeal to separate facts from values, have obscured some of the facts relevant to educational policy…