Provides a brief history of the National Science Foundation. Discusses the personalities involved in its conception and foundation, the political process by which it was established, and the purposes and plans outlined in the initial stages of its development. (MLH)

The impact on the University of Richmond (UR) of its 1969 gift of $50 million from an alumnus and trustee is examined. The fairly typical, small, church-related liberal arts university with an enrollment of about 4,000 has concentrated on student life and faculty welfare and the relationship between the two. (JT)

The implications and the political causes behind the Senate Appropriations Committee's proposal for zero funding for NIE for fiscal year 1975 are discussed. (AM)

The challenge of realizing equality in education is a great and costly task. The author examines the role of the federal government in this area. (HMV)

Report of a panel discussion presented in a General Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

This article covers resolutions of the U.S. National Commission for Unesco (32d meeting, Washington, D.C., October 1968), expressing concern over recent Congressional action on appropriations for international education.

Four issues (1980/81) of Views, an early childhood special education newsletter published by Project Sunrise Outreach in Montana, are collected in the document. Each issue contains one or two feature articles, and sections on early childhood programs, news from the states (Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho), comments from colleagues, research summaries,…

This brief document reports on Federal support to individual universities and colleges both for science/engineering (S/E) and non-S/E activities. The study, the only source of data on total Federal obligations to individual academic and nonprofit institutions, is carried out annually by the National Science Foundation (NSF), as a result of a…

Eighty schools that were members of the Iowa High School Press Association responded to a questionnaire about the school newspaper's financial status in light of public school budget cuts. The collected data indicated that nearly half of the respondent schools published newspapers at no cost and in cooperation with a community newspaper. Sixty…

The experiences of a variety of independent colleges and universities in New York State in providing different kinds of on-campus child care are described in this report. Findings were gathered from a survey and several interviews of academic institutions in order to assess various options in child care arrangements. The report consists of three…

A study was conducted to determine the characteristics shared by top rated high school newspapers. Questionnaires were mailed to the advisers for 100 winning and 100 nonwinning entrants in the annual high school newspaper rating contests conducted by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association from 1975 to 1978. The questionnaires surveyed such…

The current state of the art concerning the provision of continuing social education and recent expansion and pressures for continued growth through the 1980s are considered. Specific topics include: the continuing education directors and staff; the continuing education program (CEP) as an organization; the CEP's programming, funding sources, and…

Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and Title IV, Part C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1974 provide for federal funding of innovative projects in public school districts. A study of 981 Illinois school districts revealed that between fiscal years 1974 and 1978 approximately 57 districts per year…