Examines four simulation games used in higher education to teach the role of elections in promoting governmental responsibility, the effects of imperfect accountability on governmental policy, and ways to make governments more accountable. These games simulate interest group lobbying, political party formation, bureaucratic policy making, and…

Awarding of public aid to college students should be concentrated on curricular areas of demonstrated instrumental relevance and scarcity. (MSE)

Awarding of public aid to college students should be concentrated on curricular areas of demonstrated instrumental relevance and scarcity. (MSE)

Starting from the assumption that law schools are intensely political, these issues are discussed: the first-year experience, ideological content of the curriculum, noncurricular practices that train students for the legal hierarchy, and ways for progressive students to deal with the experience. A utopian law school transformation is proposed.…

A member of the Los Angeles board of education describes her experiences in the attempt to enforce school desegregation in the district between 1962 and 1965, discusses the board's "color blind" policy and its resistance to integration efforts, and examines integrationists' limited successes and eventual failure in the desegregation…

Reports on an examination of 14 American history texts for their content on the Southern Civil Rights Movement prior to the mid-1960s. Cites elitism, factual inaccuracy, and superficiality as common failings in many of these works. (Author/GC)

A survey of adults in Louisville (Kentucky) revealed that measures of self-interest were weakly and inconsistently related to anti-busing attitudes, while measures of racial attitudes correlated strongly with opposition to busing. These findings contradict the assumptions of traditional political analysis. (Author/PGD)

Compares the 1929-32 Venereal Disease Control Demonstration Project conducted among Southern Blacks with the 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Asserts that while the latter involved unethical research activities, the former fell outside the realm of research ethics, because it exploited human subjects for political gain. (Author/MJL)

The incorporation of play experiences into the school curriculum is discussed in relation to the political nature of curriculum decision making and the use of play as a curriculum strategy. (JN)

Early Reagan Administration budget and program messages and other developments are examined in relation to social welfare and social work education. Some dimensions of educational quality are suggested, and the complex relationships between levels of support and quality are analyzed. Elements of a strategy for maintaining quality are assessed.…

Recent changes in the age and race composition of the population and in educational governance indicate that the public will be more receptive to educational vouchers. These changes, points of agreement and disagreement, and the history of educational vouchers are described. (CJ)

Examines the sociopolitical circumstances surrounding the formulation, passage in Congress, and presidential veto of the Comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971 (S.1512). Argues that policy is often influenced by several issues that motivate political action; in the case of child care legislation, children are only one factor among many.…

Criticizes the Holtzman Report (Boruch and Cordray) focusing on the politics behind the national educational policymaking process. (GC)

A fundamental assumption that bureaucratic, collegial, and political models of administration are independent and distinct is challenged, and process and structure within higher education institutions are differentiated as they describe role and power relationships and lines of authority. Survey results are cited as evidence and implications are…

Censorship problems are becoming more complex. Liberals as well as conservatives are objecting to certain materials. And because selection of textbooks and school library materials hinges not only on content but on budgetary and instructional considerations, school censorship cases can be even more difficult to pinpoint. (SJL)