Several nonprofit organizations provide instructional materials and guidance to support experiential civic education in schools. General evidence from national surveys suggests that the use of these products and methods improves students? political and civic knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors. This paper reports the result of a particular…

The Foreign Policy Research Institute held its 11th History Institute for Teachers on June 5-6, 2004, bringing together forty-five teachers from fifteen states for a weekend of lectures and seminars. Sessions included; (1) Colonial Origins of American Identity (Walter McDougall); (2) Migration and Colonization (Daniel Richter); (3) Liberty and…

This study attempted to determine whether Palestinian children living in the West Bank experienced anxiety as a result of the Israeli occupation. It also attempted to assess whether their anxiety influenced their political views. Children ages 9-12, living in villages and refugee camps, participated in the study. Observations and interviews were…

This report focuses on "at risk" immigrants in the United States. This third report in a series highlights the plight of low-income immigrant laborers in the United States. This series does not seek to advance specific policies or reforms. It intends merely to relate the stories of newcomers in the confidence that they will speak powerfully for…

This paper examines the forces that affect school accountability. It presents the discussion in the context of the classic agency model, which is built around a principal-agent relationship. In these types of relationships, a principal attains certain goals through an agent, who acts on her behalf. Although ubiquitous in society, these kinds of…

Public affairs instructors must routinely contend with the reality that stressing the importance of political knowledge is challenging in an era of declining student interest in politics and political institutions. Yet enhancing students' knowledge about public affairs can stimulate more interest and engagement in public affairs, particularly if…

This publication contains journal essays and book chapters from publications of the National Council of Teachers of English. The following articles appear in the publication's first section, "Multimedia in the Classroom": (1) "The Classroom" (Marilyn Jody and Marianne Saccardi); (2) "Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the…

No other group is as disengaged from elections as youth. Voter turnout in the United States trails that of other industrialized societies, and is particularly anemic among youth between the ages of 18 and 24. The purpose of this study was to assess whether young people's expertise with information technology could be harnessed to stimulate a…

Civic involvement is a powerful opportunity in which young citizens can be more engaged in society. It provides young citizens with various opportunities to see themselves as contributing members to the community-at-large. Civic involvement enhances citizenship and civic engagement, allowing young citizens to develop a sense of community as an…

It was found that the less (but not the more) liberal examiners attributed greater psychological maladjustment to the left politically active female clients than to males. Findings are interpreted as bolstering position of Szasz and others that conventional ideologies are strengthened by certain moral-political consequences of mental health…

Explores some salient attributes of university students, as well as sociopolitical conditions conducive to their vigorous political activism and social movement, focusing on the particular characteristics of Korean student political activism, and probing the sources of frustrations of Korean student leaders of the April revolution. (Author/JM)

Reports a case study at Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, Missouri, which demonstrated some important shifts in attitudes of blacks towards themselves: changes in the status hierarchy based on color gradations of lightness were demonstrated, as were relations of skin color to self-ratings of personal "competence." (Author/JM)

Author tried to account for the astonishing outburst of student violence in Japan. (Author/RK)

A 10 percent random sample survey which elicited the political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, as well as the social backgrounds, of students at the University of Chicago, in 1970, produced data indicating that there is very little direct effect on activism by social background. (Author/JM)

Intellectuals have often confronted the issue of how best to allocate their special skills and talents between intellectual and political endeavors, this stiuation having posed special problems for the black community. Focuses on the variety of leadership strategies available and describes some models thereof. (Author/RJ)