The dramaturgical dimensions of the "theater of fact" as found in two anti-war plays, "Discourse on Viet Nam" by Peter Weiss and "Xa: A Vietnam Primer" by the ProVisional Theatre are examined. In these plays the author finds that Vietnamese history becomes rhetorical testament in arguments against United States…

A number of recent statements, occurrences, and reflections are presented to indicate a resurgence of Nazism. The author states that the facts of the Holocaust should be taught and suggests some curriculum activities to teach them and also to distinguish and expose similar acts today and in the future. (MF)

Reviews the tone and actions of the 1977 National Education Association convention. (IRT)

Recounts a seeming "prophecy" made during George Washington's youth by the Reverend Samuel Davies, the prominent Presbyterian proponent of the Great Awakening. Investigates how American eulogists drew upon this "prophecy" to give validity and vitality to George Washington's legend. (MH)

Concludes that whether research solves problems or not, it helps those involved in the making of policy to decide what the problems are. (Author/AM)

Notes that blacks are destined to remain strangers in the land of opportunity and in the system of justice, except as persons suspected, accused, arrested, prosecuted, imprisoned, executed--all in disproportionate numbers. (Author/AM)

Describes Albert Camus's writings regarding semantic abuses in public rhetoric. (DD)

Analyzes the evils of political and commercial doublespeak and contends that they can be alleviated by the truth of good literature. (DD)

Presents a lesson plan using "Decision at Richmond," a play dramatizing the debate over United States Constitutional ratification, to demonstrate to students the importance of the unique process used to make political decisions in the United States. (Author/AEM)

Both the Holmes Group and the Carnegie Task Force harbor a deep distrust of teachers, it is argued. Their recommendations are authoritarian and seek, through top-down controls of teacher education and credentialing institutions, the voluntary and enthusiastic acquiescence to the given structure by educators. (MT)

Presents an instructional model for teaching primary students to understand current affairs through instruction on how to analyze political cartoons so they can identify the key concepts and relationships that are depicted. Discusses goals to be attained and the use of semantic mapping. Describes the instructional strategy, including a student…

These three articles respond to and clarify "Rationality and Ideology" (Educational Theory v37 n2 Spr 1987). Cato points to weaknesses in the theory that rationality transcends prior ideological commitments. Selman addresses the question of whether or not philosophers of education are removed from practical considerations and examines…

Analyzes how higher education in Georgia reacted to a trial concerning improprieties in its Developmental Studies Program. Warns that a free-standing, state-wide program administered separately from a traditional academic department is in danger of losing independence to high-level bureaucrats. (SR)

Schools have become fair game as a campaign issue but are not top priority. How the 41st president performs will hinge on the political estate of Ronald Reagan, the high voltage Washington political scene, and the caliber of the team staffing the new administration's education team. So far, the Education Department has failed as a believable…

Contends that there is no literacy crisis, and that the means for solving it have been manufactured to increase corporate profits, and increase the power of the Pentagon to ensure these profits. (JAD)