Examines adolescents' attitudes toward the sociopolitical system and violence directed at the system as well as the implications of these attitudes for the social studies curriculum. (IRT)

Detailing the history of legal counsel for the Navajo Nation, this article illustrates the increasing importance of the Nation's legal counsel to the future of the Navajo. (JC)

A brief review of recent literature on covert government operations in the U.S., as well as eight books proposing possible solutions. (MBR)

The article addresses those issues raised when bilingual education and school desegregation occur in the same school district. It is written to "demonstrate that the operation of bilingual education programs in desegregated settings is far from being an ill-operated proposal". (Author/NQ)

Takes issue with the notion that black political activity can be explained either by an isolation, an indirect effects, or an ethnic community argument. Suggests, rather, that a theory of political climate, incorporating arguments from all three theories, best accounts for the variability in black political participation levels from one time and…

Half of the respondents to this survey felt that television newspeople have too much power; Republicans and conservatives were more critical than others. (KS)

The authors argue that the central struggle of correctional education organizational history has been to secure, consolidate, and improve correctional education services. They state that establishing a correctional school district is helpful in achieving this goal. Strategies are recommended. (Author/CH)

Considers remedial education within the context of the role and nature of the community college, perceiving the debate over whether community colleges should provide developmental education as part of a struggle for institutional identity. (DMM)

Highlights of the National Education Association's (NEA) annual meeting include endorsement of a "learning lab" plan whereby each state designates at least one school district as a learning laboratory where teachers can experiment and take the lead in reshaping public education. (MLF)

During this interview, John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1965-68), comments on the substantial overlap between leaders and managers. When principals perform as leaders, they are preoccupied with vision, values, motivation, and renewal. They become politically expert at bargaining, mediating, sorting out, persuading,…

Examines the history of U.S. political primaries, discusses Democratic Party reforms in the presidential nomination process since 1968, and cites important generalizations about how the process works today. States that the system lessens party leader influence, giving the media power to set public expectations and declare winners and losers. (GEA)

Reviews and evaluates the past ten years of policy development of democratized school government in the United Kingdom. Specifically examines the Taylor Committee of 1975, the Taylor Report of 1977, and subsequent development of policy through 1980, including the proposed 1986 Education Bill and Education Act. (BSR)

The author attempts to trace the theoretical view of working-class adult education implicit in the work of a leading figure in the history of the communist movement in Western Europe, Antonio Gramsci. (CH)