While the emerging field of educational policy studies presents interesting possibilities, systematic development has not yet begun. Currently, the term "policy" is used ambiguously, and analytical methodologies are vague. A "practical arguments" approach with the sequential examination of a single policy is suggested as an initial methodological…

Concludes that the notion that the media provides a newly elected president with a "period of grace" is oversimplified. (FL)

Women are making successful bids for the power of public office. Their success at the polls is a result of the political groups and coalitions they formed as they attempted to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified. The article concludes with a discussion of the impact of women on politics. (Author/RM)

The League of Women Voters is often regarded as having retarded the participation of women in American electoral politics because of its nonpartisan stance. However, many League members have used the League as an entry into electoral politics, and the League has supported many issues important to women. (IS)

A linguistics professor points out the historic affinity of the National Education Association's early leadership for the dialectical doctrines of collectivism and how language has translated into the political direction of its present leardership. (Author)

The meaning and understanding of conscience in political thought are examined. The problem of distinguishing apparent and real conscience and private and public judgment is illustrated by contrasting the acts of conscience of Socrates and Thomas More with the rejection of private judgment against the state in Hobbes and Locke. (RM)

The author believes a cold war ideology permeates our culture and poisons the minds of youth. The challenge to education is to awaken people to a historical and global perspective and raise public consciousness of the necessity for peace. (MD)

Assessed the relative importance of conflicting interests and ideologies in a simulation of political decision making. Student decision maker (N=96) negotiated the allocation of resources to alternative programs. High conflict of interest dyads took longer to negotiate, allocated less funds, and viewed the negotiation more like a…

Suggests that while endorsements seem to sway a few voters, the effect is so small that such endorsements are unlikely to influence the outcome of an election. (FL)

A personal report and critique of goings on in Lausanne at the 1976 restructuring of the International Federation of Library Associations. (Author)

What the federal government needs to do is to coordinate a broad national level of evaluation of specific intervention programs at the local level. A unified and coordinated evaluation approach is needed at the national level that utilizes "outside" and local evaluators considered to have technical expertise and professional integrity. (Author/ER)

The purpose of this paper was to introduce readers to the main aspects of standards-based reforms in the United States of America. Content analyses of policy documents, reports of studies on education reforms, standards' documents and curriculum frameworks, and verbal communications from officials of education agencies provided the main sources of…

This is LSDA's response to the LSC consultation document "Through Inclusion to Excellence on LSC's Planning and Funding of Provision for Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities Across the Post-16 sector." It is based on a study of the summary and main text of the full review as well as the consultation. This paper…

Author identified and discussed accountability as performance reporting, as a technical process, as a political process, and as an institutional process. (Editor/RK)

This article argues that in most educational games the act of winning proves little. A debriefing session is therefore proposed, during which students can have feedback, the opportunity for application exercises, and linkage of the game to the course of instruction. (JA)