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Several years ago I testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the insufficiency of American aid to Africa. I urged that foreign aid be increased because, in Africa, our foreign aid still had the opportunity of being genuine economic assistance and not something else. It was understood in my remarks that the genuine nature of economic assistance would become apparent as structural changes in African economies took place.

Removed from abstract political principle and observed in the policies of historical educational regimes, changing ideas of community, equality, and liberty not only reveal the likeness and diversity of Anglo-American democracy over time but also constitute criteria for making judgements about its extent and quality

Manzer's comparative political study of schools in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States focuses on five fundamental problems in the historical development of Anglo-American educational regimes: the original creation of systems of elementary education in the nineteenth century as publicly provided and publicly governed; the transformation of secondary schools in the early twentieth century to match the emerging structure of occupational classes in capitalist industrial economies; the planning for secondary schools in the development of the welfare state after the Second World War; the accommodation of social diversity in public schools from the 1960s to the 1990s in response to increasingly strong assertions of ethnicity, language, race, and religion, not only as criteria for equal treatment, but also as foundations of communal identity; and more

This article provides an analysis of the U.S. foreign assistance to Israel. It shows the evolution, structure and key trends of aid flows in 1949-2012. Particular emphasis is placed on military assistance to Israel, aimed to provide Qualitative military edge (QME) of the country in the Middle East and to ensure regional stability. The game-theoretic analysis in particular the repeated games is applied in order to understand the mechanisms of the effect of U.S. military assistance to Middle Eastern countries. The basic directions of U.S. aid (development of missile defense systems in Israel and financing of a number of civil programs) are shown. The main point of critic of U.S. foreign assistance to Israel, as well as an assessment of the influence of the «Arab Spring» and the global economic crisis on aid flows are provided.

The purpose of the article is to consider the instructive potential of the American folk ballad XVI-XIX. An integrated approach is used. Descriptive and comparative methods of analysis allowed to generalize existing approaches to solving the problem of instructiveness in folklore. The historical method was used to describe the situation in North America, against which the American folk ballad developed. The connection of Puritan philosophy with ballads is substantiated by methods of text and context analysis, the moral values ​​of the first settlers are determined. The scientific novelty of the work is that, despite the numerous statements of folklorists on the importance of the instructive function of folklore, it was not considered on the material of the American folk ballad of the XVI-XIX centuries earlier. Conclusions. Folklore should be considered as a specific moral code of conduct. The song form acts as an effective medium through which the younger generations join the moral values ​​approved by the Puritan community.

Examines the decision by the State School Board for Kansas to delete the topic of Darwinian evolution from the required curriculum for high school biology, and the topic of big-bang cosmology from the required curriculum for high school physics.

Teaching Modernization -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Educational Reform, Modernization, and Development -- Chapter 2. US Assistance to Educational Reform in Spain -- Chapter 3. Forerunners of Change? -- Chapter 4. Educational Transfer and Local Actors -- Chapter 5. Much Ado about Nothing? -- Chapter 6. US Foreign Policy toward Spanish Students -- Chapter 7. How a Cold War Education Project Backfired -- Chapter 8. "Passing through a Critical Moment" -- Chapter 9. Between the Eagle and the Condor -- Chapter 10. Between Modernization and University Reform (1957-1973) -- Index.