A two-page interview on ethics conducted with an industrial training specialist with a Ph.D. in philosophy and theology. Discussed are the meaning of ethics, advice to executives considering intervention efforts to improve ethical behavior, and the essential intervention steps of establishing policy and communicating standards. (LAS)

Summary and evaluation of a simulation game developed for a second-year undergraduate international politics course at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Purpose of simulation was to provide students with insight into nature of national relations through their own participation in a similar process. (ND)

Concludes that removing research support as a punishment for alleged non-compliance with statutes that are at times not even marginally related to scientific objectives is an irrelevant and undeservedly harmful punishment. (Author/AM)

Describes and explains the role of 14 ethnic fraternal associations in promoting the individual and social health of their members through benefit programs. (Author/AM)

A member of the Commission on the Year 2000 recalls the practical hazards and psychic rewards of forecasting the future of a nation. (Editor/LBH)

The educational value of standardized tests and their fairness to racial and ethnic groups continue to be intensely debated issues that affect public policies. This article summarizes many of the prominent points of view and suggests a series of six policy alternatives as possible solutions to the controversies. (Editor/LBH)

Discusses the role of effective planning in carrying out administrative reform in Arab countries. Present administrative backwardness is characterized by inefficiency, inability to keep up with educational trends, remoteness from current trends in management science, and inability to prepare for future educational development. Strategies for…

Summarizes and discusses a set of interviews with program specialists and managers conducted early in the spring of 1974 in several federal government agencies. These interviews attempted to determine the status of anthropology in educational research programs, to identify issues and problems concerning anthropology's role in educational research,…

Reviews some major characteristics of ethnography as they apply to policy issues and policy formulation, and ethnography's utility from the perspective of how public educational policy is made. Discusses the potential contributions of ethnography and the responsibilities ethnographers must consider if their work is to have an impact on public…

Describes the authors' experiences in attempting to link a mental health public service announcement to some television shows and the difficulties they encountered as a result of network policies. Summarizes the policy issues and suggests some alternative policies. (Author/JM)

The Bains Report was meant to produce order out of chaos in local government. But Avon's corporate management row last autumn suggested it may have done more harm than good. This article, the first in a two-part series, reports on its impact elsewhere. (Editor/RK)

Examines superintendents' attitudes toward community participation at the advisory and control levels in four areas of educational policy-making. (Author)

Describes the development of a policy at the University of Colorado to catalog, package, house, and circulate books with accompanying electronic media. Highlights include a literature review, motivation, a processing flowchart, retrospective conversion of older materials, and an example of a MARC record. (Author/LRW)

College and university fund-raising programs should have a written policy to make donor thank-yous part of office routine. Reviewing existing donor files can help codify existing policy and practice. Larger offices may need policies for different gift types and sizes. Innovative ways of recognizing donors, such as special events, gifts, and…

Discusses the issues addressed in following articles of this issue of the journal, focusing on policy community, which educational research had too often ignored when making educational decisions. Insights from educational research are used to suggest what policy processes and reform initiatives should do rather than simple criticizing what policy…