The author discusses the growth and development of special education during the period 1947-1968. (SBH)

Examines the federal administration's overall position toward lifelong learning. Presents an analysis of fiscal 1979 budget recommendations for some of the major federal programs supporting lifelong learning. Includes a review of the congressional legislative process and a chart of selected funding recommendations. (MF)

Describes the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Applied Science and Research Applications (ASRA) program, the replacement for the Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) program, for providing applied science with an intellectual integrity and concrete usefulness. (SL)

The author examines the paradox of how federal purposes (to bring change both to those who do and don't welcome it) can be reconciled with a user-driven system (a system that maximizes user self-determination). Design specifications for effective change strategies are suggested. (MJB)

An interview describing steps the Philippine government has recently taken to expand and diversify nonformal education among adults through the School-on-the-Air program designed to bring the classroom to rural people through radio and community followup classes. Extracts from the government orders setting up the program and its pilot centers are…

Promoting innovations accounts for approximately 10 percent of the federal aid to public schools which currently exceeds $3.5 billion annually. However, serious questions about the usefulness of federal efforts to promote innovation and the prospects for educational reform have been raised. Those questions were examined here by the Rand…

Describes opportunities for life scientists in the National Park Service. (BB)

The current system of producing and consuming educational research does not seem to be well-established. Outlines the history of the federal role in educational research and development from 1867 to the present and some of the problems encountered by those agencies involved in providing educational R & D. (Author/RK)

Discusses the views of the NEA and American Federation of Teachers on the separate Department of Education proposed by the Carter administration. (SB)

RARE II is a new Roadless Area Review and Evaluation of the National Forest system. Administrators are attempting to inventory existing wilderness areas and to determine criteria for setting aside additional ones. This information will be used for the required 1980 update of the national assessment of forests and rangelands. (MA)

A report prepared for the National Science Foundation shows that the state of American scientific research is strong, but deteriorating through lack of financial support and obsolescence of facilities. The study found there has been a shift away from basic research and that the number of first-ranked research centers is narrowing. (BT)

Deficiencies in the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSAHRC), a court system created to carry out adjudicatory functions under the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, are exposed and alternative solutions offered. (JT)

Concludes that "community development block grants are operating very differently from the model cities program, but they are no more effective in achieving national purposes. If those purposes are to cut red tape and to encourage cities to spend money on public works, then this program may be a great success." (Author/JM)

Federal agencies have had to begin making automatic budget reductions according to the new version of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law, resulting in increased student loan fees and decreased banker subsidies. (MSE)