This report primarily addresses the question, "What are the net benefits associated with targeted early childhood investments in Texas?" The expected benefits and costs of targeted early childhood investments are estimated and projected for an illustrative cohort of Texas infants: children 0-1 year old living in families with annual…

This book explores the history of asbestos in schools and buildings and how this issue shaped the development of public health policy. It provides insight into past policy including how and why action was taken and who caused it to be taken; it also offers guidance for the scientific and regulatory communities in the future. While explaining…

This document provides suggestions and sample language for university distance education policies and contracts. The sample language was taken from a review of existing policies, contracts, and American Association of University Professors (AAUP) policy statements. The policy issue is presented in a Roman font, with suggested language presented in…

In the 1996 and 1997 Massachusetts legislative sessions, several of Boston's key business leaders became active child advocates in alliance with more traditional advocates and other civic leaders, convincing public policymakers to create and fund several initiatives benefiting children. This working paper presents reflections on successful…

Reports on a study of the desire of academics for a share in administrative responsibility. (Editor)

If the schools are truly to become more accountable to the public for what youngsters learn, school boards must take a new approach to policy development. They must write policies that give more freedom to staff as they nail down tighter expectations of staff performance. (Author)

Author reflected upon the effect that collective bargaining has had upon the professional, personal, and home lives of individuals closely or directly involved in collective bargaining. (Author/RK)

In this article author discussed data on child abuse and neglect and analyzed several policy suggestions for alleviating the problem. (Author/RK)

Article also appeared in "International Journal of the Sociology of Language," n1; research supported by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Ford Foundation, and The Language Behavior Secion, Hebrew University. (DD)

Describes the recent national conventions of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, and of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, contrasting the three according to the manner in which they make decisions and formulate policy. (JM)

Answers some hard questions, such as: Does real community control diminish the professional? Whose fault is it when community involvement fails? (Author)

The enforcement of a requirement of racial dispersion of school population in one region of the country is morally, politically, and legally an untenable position. Busing is a shorthand term symbolizing something else which must be faced. (DM)