Focuses on the rebuilding of a successfully integrated school system after the period when separatist Black power politics had driven out moderate families of both races. Emphasizes that the Sausalito experience is useful in understanding the dilemmas of Black militancy and White liberalism in American society. (Author/BE)

Examines the media depiction of the political climate in the 1970s as increasingly conservative, despite insubstantial evidence for the claim. (PD)

The most significant change brought about by teacher bargaining has been to enlist the massive participation of educators in politics. But the kind of political and educational leadership that will be necessary to preserve and promote public education has not yet developed. (Author/SJL)

Schools and their staffs can expect challenges from the New Right. The author presents some practical ideas for coping with the challenge. (Author/JM)

Single-issue politics is seen as a threat to both political parties and universities. Single-issue politics rests on the following bases: moral principle, constitutional rights, and protection of a way of life. Single-issue groups will attack a special weakness of universities--their role as developers of moral virtue. (MLW)

The liberal mood of the 1960s has given way to a conservatism reminiscent of the gray flannel thinking of the 1950s. Today's young people are cautious, cynical, and dead serious about personal survival. Innovation and liberalism in education are being replaced by fiscal conservatism and emphasis on standards. (Author/SJL)

Presents a theory of media organizations as political coalitions whose activities fit the political coalition pattern with one important exception. Mass media organizations are unable to arrange a negotiated environment especially at their audience boundaries and, hence, must find ways to cope with the uncertainty. (JMF)

Shows that many "liberal" educators who are in the thrall of obviously "humane" doctrines oppose semantic tyranny or suppression of free speech by their political antagonists, while failing to descry their own manipulations of language and oppositions to others' rights. (GT)

The nature and content of student activism in the 1970s in India is examined in relation to the state of the "Internal Emergency." The development of the student movement during the pre-Emergency period and the reversal in the movement since the end of the Emergency are summarized. The prospects for a reemergence of such a movement are…

Investigates the impact of the first televised debate in the 1976 presidential campaign on the political attitudes of 195 college students. Concludes that viewing the debate had only a limited impact, which can be attributed to the general problems of attitude change and the specific content of the debates. (RL)

A look at the history, hopes, and aspirations of the combative pupils' union, the National Union of School Students, as it emerges from a period of radical revisionism to concentrate on more practical issues, such as corporal punishment. (Author/SJL)

Today's conservative political and economic climate is a poor one for higher education. Colleges are being forced to cut their budgets and vocationalize their curriculum. (SJL)

A survey of 628 young men and women who had graduated in 1970. The graduates were asked to respond to questions regarding their protest activities during high school and their present political and social activities and concerns. (Author/MLF)

Measures of racial attitude, conceptual style, commitment to candidate and electoral process, social-political evaluation, and voting intentions, were administered to white college students (N=320) before the 1972 Presidential election. Prediction of behavioral intentions becomes more powerful as attitudinal measures are made more directly…