The new pressures on aging policy are certain to bring with them inequitable and unintended consequences. The very old have not shared fully in the policy gains made by the older population generally, yet they will possibly suffer most from whatever "aging backlash" develops in the future. (Author/AM)

The author discusses his experiences in politics and education prior to and including his appointment as President of the Board of Education. ( Author/AM)

Reports a study designed to determine whether interpersonal communication in the form of direct personal contact with a political candidate influences voting decisions. (MH)

From the literature on economic, scientific, technological, social, and political futurism an appropriate selection has been made for an undergraduate college course on the future of politics, which has twice been offered at the University of Delaware. Justification and features of the course are described. (LBH)

The information collected from the accident at the Ekofisk offshore oil field is used to examine the environmental consequences and the costs of marine oil pollution. As offshore drillings increase throughout the world, there is a need for more information on this pollution problem and for more cooperation among nations. (MA)

Focuses on five types of political alienation: estrangement; negative evaluation of the American political system, negative evaluation of the competence of public officials, negative evaluation of the motives of public officials, and rejection of the institution of elections. (Author/AM)

This article explores some general notions about politics, evaluation, large city districts, and their interrelations. Different segments of the evaluation process are analyzed to isolate specific political elements in operation. (Author/AM)

Concludes that to the extent that collective defenselessness of workers exists anywhere, movements like illegal immigration, the self-transportation of cheap labor toward the places where needed, are bound to continue. (Author/AM)

A summary of a syntactic analysis of one hundred political slogans. Relatively few of them contain real verbs. This leads to the conclusion that aspect, not tense, is essential. Since political slogans use a mixed mode of communication, both situational and syntactic analyses are necessary. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Concludes that the real challenge to social scientists in this administration, and any other, is not how to relate effectively and get more funds from the executive branch, but how to relate more effectively as teachers and learners in the political process--with the American people and their elected representatives in Congress. (Author/JM)

Traces the complex history of higher grade schools in Great Britain during the late nineteenth century, concentrating on Sir John Gorst's intervention in these schools' affairs in 1900 and the subsequent abolition of their school boards. Gorst's actions significantly curtailed the educational and social activities of lower middle and working class…

The article reacts to C. E. Sleeter's analysis of the history of learning disabilities by concluding that the fundamental problems in learning disabilities and other mildly handicapping conditions are the consequence of their politicization and not of political pressures for their establishment. (Author/DB)

Politics and science have become too much entangled in the controversy over creationism and the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Political opinion is irrelevant when the scientific principles underlying a particular issue are being discussed. (MSE)

Consists of eight articles on the theme of agricultural education in the political process. Topics include (1) involvement and integrity, (2) grassroots lobbying, (3) why be involved, (4) role of instructors, (5) state-level involvement, (6) communicating with legislators, (7) influencing legislation, and (8) role of the National Council for…

School prayer is a "politics of life-style concern" issue, i.e., a group of traditionalists is attempting to reinstate prayer as an affirmation of their cherished and once dominate values, and a group of modernists is attempting to maintain the ban on prayer as an affirmation of their cherished, contemporary values. (RM)