Thirteen issues of the National Education Association (NEA) newsletter highlight the following: (1) Bork, Supreme Court nomination and NEA affiliate win on pay bias suit; (2) NEA presidential endorsements; (3) TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund) response to critics held inadequate; (4) NEA…

This collection of papers includes both presentations at a two-day conference of the Education Advisory Council at Apple Computer which considered information and insights on the use of telecommunications and networking in education, and papers describing other telecommunications projects that have been identified since the council's meeting.…

The progress of the child survival and development revolution (CSDR) from 1983 through 1986 is reviewed. The concept of the CSDR was first proposed in 1982 as a response to the need for low-cost, high-impact child health care measures during the global recession of the early 1980s. The report begins with a brief description of the relevance of the…

This user's manual, designed to meet the needs of adoption exchange administrators and program managers for a formal tool to assist them in the overall management and operation of their program, presents the Model Adoption Exchange Payment System (MAEPS), which was developed to improve the delivery of adoption exchange services throughout the…

The role of information about education in the development of education around the world is considered in this book. The volume begins by examining the needs of various categories of educators for information, the uses to which such information can be put, the processes and reasons for generating and recording information, and the methods and…

A comprehensive questionnaire was sent to 49 African national archival agencies in April 1982 to survey the needs of African Member States for assistance in the development of archives. This study is based on the 27 (55%) questionnaires that were returned. The participating agencies were grouped into three categories: agencies located in…

This article seeks to answer the following questions: Who can decide what nonprocurement objectives may be furthered by contract clause? Are there substantive limits on what may be demanded of government contractors? How may the government enforce compliance with national goals requirements? (Author)

This manual describes the fact-finding conference and provides guidelines for determining when to use one, for planning one, and for conducting one. Defined first are various types of conferences, including the information-giving conference, the problem-solving or decision-making conference, the information-exchange conference, and the…

Analysis of changes in federal education policy in the 1960s, based on archival research and other sources, suggests a reinterpretation of the causes of the success or failure of the new federal programs. A review of the literature on these "Great Society" educational policies finds that most authors feel the policies sprang from a…

This paper describes the situation of the information user in the developing countries of Africa; discusses the role of information resources in national development; delineates the most important functions of national libraries with respect to information dissemination and information utilization; explores the relationship between financial…

This publication specifies a set of general and technical requirements that must be met by the proposed Name Authority File Service in order to create an integrated, consistent name authority file for a nationwide library and information services network. Contributions from selected institutions operating online to a single computer-based system…

Major issues raised during a meeting of representatives from ten media and educational technology units in Great Britain in 1973 are briefly discussed. Areas covered include the responsibilities of the units, organizational structure, financing, staff, and some problems of evaluation. An outline of national policy relating to these media and…

Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I evaluation was mandated by Congress in 1974, and three RMC models were devised to provide comparability and flexibility for this evaluation. This paper evaluates the utility of the Title I evaluation models. The first section considers the critical import of past evaluation efforts. The development of a…