Reviews the roles of the Federal Communications Commission, the public and the manufacturers in the first thirty years of citizens band radio. (MH)

Describes workshop participants' views on the role advisory councils can or should have in affecting curriculum. Views of administrators, students, teachers, and citizens are considered. (Author/DN)

Civic education has been assigned a low priority. Team effort and team competition should be as prominent in cerebral development as in athletics in order to improve citizen skills and citizen orientation. Reward structures are needed where collective problem solving is more highly prized than individual achievement. (RDN)

Support, which is vital to our future, has been and must remain the responsibility of society. It is too important and too complex a problem to be left to scientists. (DF)

Reviews current governance problems in education and details the range of possible governance models for post-industrial schooling. After describing problems that governance must address, the paper describes various possibilities for school governance in the future. Five types of control processes are considered. Ideological foundations of an…

Challenges current concepts of citizenship in their exclusion of children. Articulates a social model of citizenship emphasizing the connections among people. Maintains that conferring citizenship according to a system of rights and obligations assumes profound connections between people, and if associations with others form the starting point of…

This booklet deals with three ways in which to be an active citizen in a democracy: voting, communicating with elected officials, and volunteering. Words about citizenship that may be new to the reader are in bold print and underlined; a word box at the top of the page provides the meaning of specially marked words on that page. Part 1 on voting…

This article states that the schools throughout our country have a great need today for instituting an enlarged and improved program of youth education in the fundamentals of law in a free society and in the responsibilities of leadership. (Reactions are also included.) (RC)

Parent and community involvement in citizen action groups is having an effect on educational policy throughout the nation. (MLF)

Activity and interest in competency-based education are growing. As of March 1978, some type of competency-based education requirement had been instituted in 34 states. Many recent changes in American society are affecting competency-based education. For example, today's learners are likely to be lifelong learners, but their learning may be…

This paper examines public access by focusing attention on development of the citizen intervenor role and development of the citizen agreement concept, and by discussing the future role of agreements as viable elements of public access. Examined are such topics as the history of citizen intervention, the history of citizen agreements,…

This study guide is a product of the Idaho Humanities Council (IHC). The guide is the result of IHC's July 2002 summer institute for teachers held at Albertson College of Idaho (Caldwell). Twenty five Idaho teachers participated. They explored U.S. Constitutional issues and political decisions and participated in a simulated congressional hearing…

A role-playing activity puts students into the roles of public officials and concerned citizens who decide through a public hearing whether or not to allow the construction of a high-rise apartment in their city. (Author/KM)

Discussion of Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Nursing Homes.'' (SP)