September 11, 2001, is a day most American high school students remember. They may not fully grasp the events that took place, the reasons behind the terrorist attacks on the United States, or their implications, but they remember. They were children when this national trauma occurred--and they saw those unforgettable television images of the…

Political problems arising from the conflict between central and regional authorities are examined through a case study of a lieutenant general of the French provincial government in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Journal available from Canadian Journal of History, Box 384, Sub Post Office No. 6, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2N7 OWO,…

The development of residential programs in the Netherlands was significantly influenced by efforts to relieve young adult unemployment in the 1920s-1930s. Residential education, provided through folk high schools, was incorporated into government strategies to respond to the economic crisis. (SK)

Reviews the history of censorship of books in China from the earliest Chinese history to 1949. The role of religion and obscenity in censorship are discussed, but the primary focus is on the political use of censorship, including the structure and regulation of censorship in communist China. A brief Chinese chronology is provided. (22…

Robinson and Stern describe the Management Training Program introduced by the U.S. Air Force in postwar Japan and its effect on Japanese industry. Roberts compares it with U.S. Training within Industries. Umetani comments that the discussion would have been more convincing had its relationship with other Japanese training programs been addressed.…

Discusses the history, technology, and functions of illegal publishing in Poland from 1945 to 1990, under official and widespread government censorship. Offers some sources for more information. (SR)

Provides an overall view of the present state of educational broadcasting in Greece, discusses the main reasons that hinder its development, and proposes solutions for improvement. Government control and the direct imitation of foreign broadcasting programming are cited as two main problems that need to be overcome. (Author/LRW)

Australia's Lady Gowrie Child Centres, established in 1940 in state capitals, represent a continuing commitment to early childhood education by the Australian federal government. The six centers were built with an emphasis on outdoor space in inner-city, high-density, industrial, and slum areas where overcrowding and poor living conditions…

At the present time, the universities in Alberta remain, as do the universities in the rest of Canada, autonomous though accountable institutions. An account is given of attempts during the 1970s to change the decentralized nature of Alberta's universities. (CJB)

Synthesizes empirical evidence on the participation of state and capital in the establishment of domestic telegraphic and telephonic communication in Latin America. Suggests that, in many ways, the contemporary period of telecommunication system organization in the region parallels the early years of telegraphy and telephony. Discusses these…

A nineteenth-century campaign to involve universities in teacher training was finally successful in 1895. The Scottish Education Department was opposed to university participation in teacher training, and in 1905, when training colleges were transferred from churches to the state, the government reorganized training to keep universities at the…

The relationship between developing a national identity and schooling is explored in the Canadian historical context. Emphases is placed on the constitutional difficulties faced by the federal government in evolving a national educational policy. (CJB)

Discusses the issue of secret voting in England during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, with particular reference to the movement to secure the secret ballot and to the important position occupied by the ballot question within the Philosophic Radicals' reform program. Journal availability: see SO 507 179. (Author/DB)

Examines the role of schools in the socialization of settler children and families in New Zealand 1867-1935. Analyzes how government policies shifted between intervention/social control and care/protection as the balance of power shifted among the state, children, and families. (Contains 17 references.) (SK)

The organization and funding of educational research in Australia since 1970 has been significantly affected by shifts in the control of the federal government from one political party to another and back. No central policy or focus for educational research existed in Australia until 1970, when the conservative government founded the Australian…