May 2008  

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Roberts, Walter R. WHAT IS PUBLIC DIPLOMACY? PAST PRACTICES, PRESENT CONDUCT, POSSIBLE FUTURE (Mediterranean Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Fall 2007, pp. 36-52)

The author, cofounder of the Public Diplomacy Institute at George Washington University and a former member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, writes that there is no agreement on what constitutes public diplomacy. A century ago, the populations of most countries were all-but-unreachable; no government had any reason to explain their policies to foreign publics. That changed with the invention of radio, which the Bolshevik and Nazi regimes used to great effect. It was the Nazi wartime propaganda activities in Latin America that prompted the U.S. to initiate cultural and academic exchanges.
 
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Immigrants Joining the Mainstream Immigrants made the United States what it is. Being an American depends on acceptance of certain American ideals, not on the place of birth of a person or of his or her ancestors. This edition of eJournal USA tells the story of immigration and diversity as it has played out through the centuries and continues to play out now.  more | Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version

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Discipline in Schools
By Thomas J. Billitteri

More than a decade after a string of deadly school shootings focused attention on student discipline, the search continues for effective methods to curb classroom misconduct. Zero-tolerance policies, widely adopted during the 1990s, have led to skyrocketing suspension and expulsion rates in many school districts, sparking criticism that get-tough conduct codes are ineffective at stopping misbehavior and harmful to the education process.

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