Applies a model of change to an analysis of recent developments in family policy. The model includes such concepts as cultural values, ideology, purposive group action, and structural relations. Clarifies some of the contradictions and confusions of recent political and organizational developments concerning families. (Author/RC)

In a crisis, excellence of programs, students, staff, and the institution will not ensure survival. Long-term planning for excellence takes a back seat to institutional survival. Sturt College of Advanced Education's experiences show that institutional diversity and an administration that can act on opportunity can be valuable assets. (MSE)

Analyzes African development strategies as a response to conditions and limitations imposed by a history of colonialism and neocolonialism. (Author/MJL)

Reviews definitions of the concept of cultural pluralism. Suggests criteria for defining and measuring the concept and develops a typology of cultural pluralism suitable for makinq comparative analyses. Relates types of pluralism thus identified to variations in ethnic political activity, with emphasis on Canada. (Author/MJL)

Presents a social analysis of organized labor, socialism, and the Milwaukee schools during the Progressive era, with particular emphasis on the political fortunes of one of the most successful labor movements in American history. (Author/DB)

Develops a typology of corporate advocacy advertising and examines why corporations have begun to present their political perspective directly to mass audiences. Categorizes corporate advocacy ads as public interest, participation, patriotic, free enterprise, controversy, equal time, image, informative, advertorial, and recruitment. (PD)

Examines the economic, social, educational, and political justifications for public subsidies for the arts. The author finds that each argument reflects a utilitarian bias. Support for the arts for their own intrinsic aesthetic value is not used as a justification. (AM)

Examines teacher education policy development in China in light of changes in China's political and social goals following the death of Mao Tse-tung in 1976. China's most important current goal is to become a modernized nation by the year 2000. Challenges and opportunities of teacher education with regard to this goal are discussed. (DB)

Presents a multivariate model for explaining cross-cultural variation in sexual stratification as implied in Collins's theory. Tested the model with subsample of societies (N=74) from the standard cross-cultural sample. Results were inconsistent with Collins's theory. Kinship and family variables were better predictors than economic and political…

Delineates components of federal legislation advocacy using the activities of the Children's Defense Fund as examples. Reviews seven aspects of the traditional role of the legislative advocate. Reveals that congressional budget procedures adopted in 1974 complicated this role. Considers several pitfalls of the new budget process. Provides a…

A review of internal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and State Department documents show that the United States government embarked on a patently illegal plan to deport Haitian boat people in circumvention of fundamental rights provided by domestic law and various international treaties. (Author/GC)

Educational administrators, who are largely conservative, must realize that the New Right is actually reactionary rather than conservative and seeks to change the role and function of the public school. (Author/JM)

Suggests that the most important aspect of successful school desegregation in Seattle was the quality of the political process. Identifies main participants and their organizations which comprise the public decision-making system. Discusses these in light of the political values which characterize Seattle's political culture. (Author/GC)

This paper summarizes educational reforms of the Cultural Revolution in China and their results, and describes the recent policy moves away from these reforms. It speculates about the impact of these two sets of policies and suggests how these effects led particular groups to support or choose certain policies. (Author/KC)

Describes past American attitudes toward Asian immigrants and analyzes contemporary views of Indochinese held by residents in areas where refugees have settled. Discusses how attitudes are related to the background characteristics of the respondents and their experience with the Indochinese. (Author/APM)