Higher Education must have a higher priority on the agenda of government. This priority should be expressed in funds for student financial assistance, faculty scholarly grants, faculty salaries, program support, and improved facilities. Tenured professors exemption, reauthorization of Higher Education Act of 1965, AAUP's legislative agenda, etc.…

Briefly describes the network of Professional Development and Program Improvement Centers, the School Resource Centers, and other efforts supporting staff development in California. (JM)

Progress on the implementation of P.L. 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) is reported, and objectives of the National Committee, Arts for the Handicapped (NCAH) are outlined. (SBH)

Provides a catalogue of federal programs and gives the key sources of federal funds for child development, social services, nutrition, education, health, community development, etc. (MP)

Describes several work training programs for youth administered by the Department of Labor, Office of Youth Programs. (SS)

Lists and annotates recurrent federal publications that contain basic statistical data on pollution levels and controls, natural resources and wildlife conservation, water resources supply and development, weather and ocean conditions, federal aid programs, and the environmental impact of energy development. It also lists continuing bibliographies…

Two units of the School Based Health Education Project in Howard County, Indiana, have been revised. The Little Smoky unit on smoking for second graders stresses the effects of smoking on the body systems while the Counter Conscious unit examines the uses of over-the-counter substances. (JMF)

Discusses the potential of the "cooperative agency management system," a new management system based on the budgeting process that has been adopted at both the Department of the Interior and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (Author/JG)

Nutrition programs for the elderly, particularly those funded Federally, are reviewed with focus on career opportunities for administrators, dietitians, and nutritionists, and others. (JT)

A federal secretary of education would be more like a school board chairman than he would a superintendent of schools. (Author/IRT)

Gives examples of how various Department of Labor programs provide aid to the employable handicapped. (LAS)

Asserts that career education is an ill-defined program imposed on local districts from the federal level. Further, the program threatens local autonomy. (Author/IRT)

Historically black colleges and universities need subject expertise and aggressive tactics to win Department of Defense research contracts, despite Pentagon efforts to target black colleges. The colleges compete with institutions whose minority group populations, alone or combined, are a majority of total enrollment. Several approaches useful in…

Explores the relationship between participants' (N=76) perceptions of federally-funded substance abuse prevention training and participants' application of these programs. Most participants (98.7%) gave favorable assessments of the training. Analysis of training application indicates that learning application is influenced by the learner's…