United States immigration statutes and administration policy are not in line with the standards of due process as guaranteed by the Constitution. In addition, reform of these statutes has lagged far behind advances made in other areas of civil rights. (Author/EB)

Outlines the history of the development of the government accounting standards and discusses the research conducted by three professional organizations aimed at improving governmental accounting standards. (Author/MLF)

There are differences between biomedical and educational research. The procedures associated with the protection of research participants cannot be transplanted from the medical setting into the educational setting in unmodified fashion without dislocation of many segments of educational research and development. (Author/EB)

Discusses the problem of the protection of human subjects involved in educational research. Potential risks to which students participating in science education research may be exposed are discussed. The need for specific federal guidelines for protecting human subjects involved in science education research is suggested. (HM)

Discusses the processes by which science education policy is determined at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Included are the degree of the involvement of different groups in policy-making, major issues related to the role of the NSF, and policies currently in effect. (HM)

While the public, including many scientists, have grave anxieties about the consequences of such technical achievements as recombinant DNA, challenges to the extent of freedom of scientific inquiry must be critically examined. However, scientific freedom cannot be used to justify blanket immunity from legitimate governmental and public oversight.…

As subject populations, Indians have been denied success in the goals of corporate collectivism and Protestant ethic individualism set for them by the federal government and local Whites. As a result, Indians have few skills, little education, no capital, poor housing, poor health, and no influence or power. (Author/EB)

The article explains the required participation of parents in the education of their handicapped children specified in Public Law 94-142, the reasons for parental involvement, and the need to inform school personnel as well as parents as to their rights and responsibilities under the law. (MF)

Social, economic, and other types of federal regulation are discussed that affect U.S. medical education. It is suggested that medical specialists must be brought into the mainstream of researchers and practitioners concerned with regulation and public policy, and be made aware of the economics of the medical industry and health care policy. (LBH)

The findings of a recently completed study comparing the responsibilities and duties of personnel directors in 1970 with those in 1977 are reported. Personnel departments grew both in scope of function and staff size, and staff members now take a much more active role in academic as well as non-academic personnel matters due to federal regulations…

A comparison of salary and rank by sex at a major institution before and after initiation of an approved affirmative action program suggests that required programs are more costly than effective. Rather than the current regulatory approach, federal incentives and greater attention to results than procedures are recommended. (Author/LBH)

Describes what one district has done to comply with Lau regulations; examines the uneasy relationship that has developed between the district and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW); and discusses some of the implications for control of local schools inherent in the district's conflict with HEW. (IRT)

Examined are some generic issues and problems related to the development of operational procedures for identifying learning disabled children, focusing on the formula proposed by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. (DLS)

Based on an in-house study at the University of Iowa, this report describes both economic and noneconomic issues involved in federally-mandated programs. The effect of direct and hidden costs are discussed along with the potential "opportunity" costs of federal impact. ( LBH)

A Colloquium on Government and Higher Education resulted in this appeal, containing four steps trustees can take to deal with the increasing problem of the governmental presence. Focus is on ways in which trustees can provide policy guidance to their institutions to preserve their individual characteristics and independence of action. (Author/LBH)