Contains comments by eight randomly selected boardmen who indicated that their primary fears concerning the voucher plan is that it will shift support, mainly financial support, from the public schools to private and religious schools, resulting in the weakening of, if not the ruination of, public education. (JF)

Students are questioning the US system of higher education for many reasons: inadequate communication among all elements of the university, unresponsiveness to student demands, hypocrisy, lack of relevance to the world outside, and over-reaction to student protest. Efforts by administrators and faculty to meet some of the students' demands may…

The policy decisions regarding higher education that are now being made will have a profound influence on the future of higher education. The issues boil down to the questions of: who should go to college; who should control colleges; who should pay for colleges; and who should make national policy concerning higher education. What directions…

This survey is volume two of a six-volume report on the organization and management of social research and development throughout the U.S. government. The main body of the work contains a summary of spending for social research and development for each department of the federal government and the independent agencies. Agencies included are:…

This report arrives at the composite estimate of Federal funding of education knowledge production and utilization (KPU) for FY 1975 by examining and comparing four data bases with respect to four definitional issues and then proposing a definition of the boundaries of the domain of interest to NIE and the Subcommittee on Research, Development,…

This report examines support for education Knowledge Production and Utilization (KPU) using data provided by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Study Project on Social Research and Development. The scope of education KPU is discussed in terms of social policy areas relevant to education and activities relevant to KPU. The conceptual framework…

Confined to an examination of the law, policy, and mechanisms through which federal funds are channeled directly to those institutions which provide access to information, this paper discusses a process designed to formulate the legislative and policy base for an optimal federal strategy for the fiscal support of libraries and information…

This study attempts to estimate the federal resources required to fulfill the aspirations of Americans for post-secondary education and draws up 2 possible levels of support to be reached by 1976--one to meet the nation's minimum aspirations and one which is more likely to allow the poor to participate in post-secondary education. The report is…

Summarizes a National Science Foundation study of patterns in government research and development (R and D) funding for the fiscal years 1978-1980. Defense received a smaller percentage of the R and D funding while energy, biomedical research, and basic research received a larger percentage of said funding. (Author/DS)

This report traces the historical development of federal housing policy that has promoted a 40% decline in substandard housing and a 20% increase in homeownership over the past 50 years. It presents emerging national and rural housing policy concerns: the proper role of federal, state, and local governments in the mortgage credit and insurance…

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

This bulletin presents data taken from the report, "Federal Funds for Research, Development, and Other Scientific Activities," Volume 23. Data given for 1974 and 1975 are estimated and do not represent final obligations. The survey on which the report is based was conducted at the midpoint of fiscal year 1974 when the President's budget for fiscal…

Concludes that a current direct expenditure program, improved in design and scope, is preferable to tax incentive grants. (Author/JF)

This guidebook provides basic information to assist charter schools in accessing the federal programs and resources available to them. The programs represented in this guide are those that are commonly considered the most beneficial to charter schools. Most of the programs are administered directly by the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Chapter…

The social security system in the United States is becoming increasingly unstable, as the amount of benefits paid to an ever larger number of retirees grows and the number of younger workers paying taxes to the system decreases. The problem will become especially acute in the years 2011 and after, as the members of the "baby boom"…