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Download full textWagner, David L.; Fraleigh, Douglas – 1986
Designed to serve as a framework in which high school debate students, coaches, and judges can evaluate the issues, arguments, and evidence concerning which agricultural policies best serve the United States, this booklet provides guidelines for research on the 1986-87 debate resolutions selected by the National Federation of State High School…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Debate, Federal Government, Government Role
Melville, Keith, Ed. – 1984
Appropriate for secondary school social studies, this booklet considers the decline of certain basic industries in the United States and the unemployment which accompanies this decline. The document contains five sections. Section one, "The Blue-Collar Blues," examines the uneven nature of the current economic recovery, which has left many…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Decision Making, Economics
Melville, Keith, Ed. – 1984
Appropriate for secondary school social studies, this booklet covers the causes, problems, and possible solutions for the high cost of American health care. The topic is discussed in five sections. The first section, "The $350 Billion Health Care Bill," discusses how the nation's priority on health care has led to the emergence of medicine as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Hoepli, Nancy L., Ed. – 1986
Designed to initiate discussion of foreign policy decisions, this book contains an analysis of eight foreign policy issues confronting the United States in 1986. Each unit provides the background and guidelines to provide perspective to assist in understanding foreign policy crises. The units included in this issue are: (1) "How Foreign Policy Is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Class Activities, Democracy
Close Up Foundation, Arlington, VA. – 1983
Designed to encourage informed and critical thinking on contemporary political issues and processes, the articles, case studies, and activities in this student handbook can be incorporated into secondary school social studies units on government or current events. Seven chapters cover the executive branch of government, Congress, the judiciary,…
Descriptors: Budgets, Bureaucracy, Case Studies, Conflict
Bandy, Patricia, Ed. – 1984
Designed to encourage informed and critical thinking on contemporary political issues and processes, the articles, case studies, and activities in this student handbook can be incorporated into secondary school social studies units on government or current events. Eight chapters cover the presidency, the federal bureaucracy, the Congress, the…
Descriptors: Budgets, Bureaucracy, Case Studies, Conflict
