The founders of the United States envisioned education as providing for all citizens the necessary apprenticeship in the understanding and practice of democracy. To make democracy safe there must be universal schooling; to make schooling safe for education there must be democracy. But since the founding of the country, the study and practice of…

Education is a derived right of Americans. An organized process which aims to impart specified knowledge and skills, education is the only way in which learning opportunities, which are the right of Americans, can be ensured. (CJB)

Makes suggestions regarding the responsibility of governors, lawmakers, board members, administrators, teachers, students, parents, representatives of higher education, the private sector, and the federal government to education in America. (JOW)

While federal legislation has opened doors to non-traditional career opportunities, many women are still training to become teachers, secretaries, and nurses. The most basic influence in socializing young girls into strictly feminine roles is the parental attitudes. Sex-associated roles, role limitations, and male-created barriers are constraints…

Discusses the trend in the United States toward expanding continuing education for adults, describes planning processes at the University of Wisconsin to illustrate policy issues facing all states, and notes difficulties in accomplishing this expansion. Examines nine specific issues and presents differing views of the university role. (MF)

The comtemporary dialogue on work needs to be placed within an historical perspective so as not to view issues now coming to the fore as faddish or mere fallout from the sixties. Today's society still contends with tension between the values of pre-industrial America and those of the evolving corporate state. The crux of this ongoing struggle is…