An examination of the relevant literature reveals that "policy" means different things to different people. Among the concepts that emerge when these meanings are reviewed are that policies are intentional, decision-based, goal-oriented, and conditional; they lead to results, balance facts and values, and allocate resources; and they…

The 6 main recommendations and the proposed budget for FY '75 that the National Advisory Council on Indian Education presented in its first Annual Report to Congress are explained. (KM)

Examines some evidence about public understanding of education policy, compares it to similar understandings of other public policy fields, and discusses some of the steps that may be taken to deal with the prevailing levels of understanding. (Author)

Reviews the impact of collective bargaining on school policy and identifies the appearance of multilateral bargaining as a function of the decentralization movement and parent group demands for participation in collective negotiations. (Author)

Suggests the extent to and particular ways in which urban governments and school systems are undemocratic and unresponsive to community needs. Provides an example of the general inability of minority groups to obtain their social and political goals through either protest or political bargaining. (Author/AM)

This paper presents a contextual statement from which to consider contemporary educational problems. The operations of the curriculum system in an urban environment are surveyed. The three primary functions of the system (production, implementation, and evaluation) have been described in depth. It is suggested that issues such as decentralization,…

The Wisconsin "Legislative Council Report to the 1973 Legislature on the Activities of the Menominee Indians Committee" covers the work of the Menominee Indian Study Committee (MISC), along with pertinent background information on the situation in Menominee County. A brief account of Menominee County with a more selective detailed…

A major component of the decentralization concept has been the focus on the participation of community, staff, and students in the process of educational decision making. On June 28, 1971, the Los Angeles City Board of Education mandated that a school-community advisory council be established in every regular elementary and secondary school in the…

An elementary school Black Studies program was conducted in three black schools as a program of primary prevention. Lower class and lower middle class parents and caretakers of the school children were interviewed to determine the extent of community approval of the program. It was hypothesized that less approval would be observed among the lower…

Cable television has been introduced to the public as a revolutionary development in communications, but its history, evolving structure, and present operation indicate otherwise. A few large industrial conglomerates have come to dominate the field of cable television and studies by private institutions and the regulatory activities of the Federal…

The new capability of cable television (CATV) to provide relevant programming to local communities should be recognized so that inner city consumers can be provided with direct, personal information--warning, comparative prices, and the sense that someone cares. At least one channel should be devoted as a key to these services, with other channels…

Notes that if the school really belongs to the community, then administrators have no more right to put a kid out of his school than to put their children out of the house. Discusses the implications of this ideology. (Author/AM)