Targeted as a low priority and faced with major reductions in program and staff, the Department of Physical Education, Health and Recreation at the University of Rhode Island underwent a four-year review by university administrators. Proper planning, positioning and performance have resulted in a stronger and more productive department. (MT)

Discusses leadership styles in two distinct situations--cooperative and counteractive. Effective leadership in cooperative situations depends on productivity, satisfaction, and cohesion in problem solving. Counteractive situations demand a political leadership style at home with coalitions, bargaining, persuasion, and coercion. Dynamic leadership…

Through greater involvement in local policy issues, business can influence public support for needed financing of education. Legislation that undercuts the next generation's employability should be challenged. (CJH)

Discusses the nature and dynamics of conservatism in relation to the politics of education. Argues that, because the state has replaced society and the workplace as the locus of class struggle, implementation of conservative educational and fiscal policies face barriers created by popular resistance and failures within the New Right itself. (KH)

Concerns ways in which consultants can learn about their clients' politics and address this content explicitly. Describes two modeling techniques that consultants might use in consultant-client interactions to facilitate the explicit examination and analysis of internal politics. Illustrates these techniques with case examples. (Author/ABB)

The relationship between the national government and the universities in Switzerland is outlined. It is suggested that the state should acknowledge universities as the best judges of many educational issues, and should establish laws that merely outline university responsibilities. (MSE)

Why U.S. bilingual education programs have failed to gain legitimacy is examined. A brief discussion of bilingual education in Wales supports the argument that the legitimacy of bilingual teaching within the education system itself and support from local parents and teachers are more important for its survival than public support. (RM)

This research based theory suggests the concept of centrality (how closely a unit's purposes match those central to the organization) affects internal resource allocations, environmental power, institutional power, and resource negotiation strategies in colleges and universities. A figure, tables, an appendix, and 30 references are provided. (DCS)

Discusses eight books, including a textbook for undergraduates, that represent the type of research being conducted in the political communication field. Identifies major problems of current research. (PD)

Liberty, equality, justice, compassion, truth, beauty, responsibility, cooperation, humility, progress, decency--teachers urge their students to learn about these great ideas from the great literature in the hope they will move American society to be more controlled by them. The alternative is a society concerned only with self-interest. (MLW)

Five articles present perspectives on National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, a permanent, independent agency of U.S. government established by Public Law 91-345 in 1970 to advise President and Congress on nation's library and information needs and to develop and implement policies and plans in this area. References provided.…

Describes how Ernest Hartwell's efforts to establish junior high schools in Buffalo with broad curricula failed, largely because the city's would-be political reformers did not accept the importance of educational reform. (CMG)

Music teachers and other educators discuss techniques that they have successfully used when approaching a principal with a request. (RM)

Reports that beliefs about truth and anxiety over the Cold War period shaped the art of political cartoonists of the 1950s. (FL)

Because the Daughters of the American Revolution's (DAR) Black exclusion rule prevented Black singer Marion Anderson from performing in the DAR auditorium in 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the organization. Primary source materials regarding this incident and learning activities for secondary level students are presented. (RM)