Participation in decision making, role playing, inquiry into community current events, and study of law and order in urban units facilitate learning concepts of law, order, conflict, and dissent. (VW)

Elementary social studies curriculum needs a more circumspect examination of the policemen's role in society, a focus on political-ethical questions, and content promoting elucidation of issues and development of critical thinking concepts and discussion skills. The analysis of public issues: concepts, materials, research is cited. (VW)

Generalizations are derived from an evaluation of a change model: 1) Administrators play major roles; 2) Change models meet less resistance than administrative mandate; 3) A model provides for change agents inside or outside school system; 4) A model should include provision for a cybernation component; and, 5) Stages may be omitted or recycled.…

Reprinted from the booklet, An Even Chance, by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., with the cooperation of the Center for Law and Education, Harvard University, 1971. (VW)

An inventory of resources available to the classroom teacher is divided into the following sections: curriculum materials, curriculum guides and bibliographies, resource units, bibliography of teacher resources, games and simulations, periodicals, organizations, and a directory of political scientists. (Author/JB)

The keynote address given at the Law in American Society Foundation Annual Conference is reprinted from Law in American Society, v1 n1 p9-16, May, 1972. (JB)

Address at the 52nd Annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies.

The right to life encompasses the basic needs for self-preservation. An examination of legal action in the area of environmental problems raises a question concerning man's right to life if resort to the courts and legislative halls fails. (Author/JB)

The women's movement has helped define and has in turn been shaped by the basic constitutional concepts of the privileges of a citizen, the equal protection of the laws and the limited powers of the government. (Author)

A review of the constitutional promises to black people, early congressional efforts to fulfill these promises, early court cases construing the Fourteenth Amendment and the impact of these decisions along with their subsequent overruling. (Author/JB)

Corporations wielding greater power than many states and some nations make decisions having far greater implications for communities than do the local laws governing those communities. It is speculated that the constitutional framers may have provided checks, balances and constraints for them as they did for government if their potential power had…

Cases involving youth and social problems provide material for teaching students about the rights and liberties of students; a vital need is to support and encourage those programs of law-focused education which seek to utilize and adapt the relationship between students, government and law. (JB)

Techniques are presented which explore a single dimension of the subject under consideration as no technique, in and of itself, provides for a comprehensive analysis of the constitution. Approaches are presented which can be most effectively utilized by the teacher. (JB)