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Plight of refugees. The view that only the return of peace and stability in the region will ensure the protection of refugees.

Constantine reviews 'Islam and Politics in Central Asia' by Mehrdad Haghayeghi.

Certain outcomes from local Sch's can lead to grievances among the students' parents. A grievance is a feeling of having been wronged or deprived of due outcomes. To the extent that pol is concerned with the development, nature, prosecution, & manag of grievances, the Sch community provides an apt subject of study. Key questions hinge on the interrelationships of grievances & SP participation, the substance of grievances, & the redress of grievances. A nat'l sample of 1,992 parents of US HSch seniors was interviewed in the Spr of 1965. Openended & closed ended questions were employed. Grievancebearing R's were those having been upset by (1) something their child had been told in class or by (2) some other event at Sch. These are further subdivided into those seeking redress & the manner in which redress was attempted. A test is made of whether minority status acts as a constraint on redress attempts. Contingency tables & gamma is are used to display the data. Popular impressions notwithstanding, grievances against HSch's are not rampant, nor are they excessively clustered among certain SP strata. If anything, the more participative, politicized parents are more likely to harbor grievances than their opposites. Parental grievances develop in the context of rather deeply-held value commitments; & objections to classroom content focus on religion-morals-pol themes whereas objections about other matters center more on the Sch as a soc system. Less than a majority of grievances are transformed into demands through compensatory action & of such actions a bare fraction reach the stage of public visibility. Perhaps the most theoretically intriguing finding is that the parent's position with respect to majority groupings in the Sch community appears to play a strong role in determining whether grievances will be converted into demands. AA.

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor market, as well as with lower unemployment.

The unrests witnessed in 2018 reminded Kenyans of past bloody episodes, which, though rare, caused pain, loss and destruction. Several parents are likely to still be struggling to come to terms with the loss and destruction of those events. Unfortunately, despite several studies that have tried to investigate and recommend solutions for these menaces, this is still freshly being experienced in the country. This scenario informed the study with the purpose of investigating the role of school politics in management of unrests in public secondary schools in Kenya. The study was guided by conflict theory and theory of symbolic interactionism, and a descriptive survey design with a target population of the 57 public secondary schools in Taita Taveta County, Kenya. The sample consisted of 194 headteachers, heads of departments and Board of Management members. Stratified random sampling was used to select respondents. The study used a questionnaire and interviews to collect data. The study found that school politics including teachers' incitement has a significant role in management of unrests in public secondary schools in Taita Taveta County. Article visualizations:

Williams reviews 'East Central European Politics Today' by Keith Crawford.

Situation in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Covers the Aug. 1991 coup, the "partocracy" and opposition, regional neighbors, and foreign interests.