This document presents the long-range (5-year) plan of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). The plan is organized around two key elements; first, a new paradigm of disability that sees disability as a product of the interaction between individual characteristics and the environment, and second, an emerging…

Summarizes the research and development efforts involved in the 1975 annual federal budget proposals, including descriptions of priority national needs and funding of research programs. Included are statistics of actual and estimated expenses for the period from 1973 through 1975. (CC)

Attempts to provide the school administrator and his food service manager with information about how to best operate the cafeteria in view of food shortages and new USDA regulations. Describes foods that will be in relatively ample supply during coming months and analyzes whether food vending machines are a help or a menace to nutritious lunch…

The aim of NIE is to develop a program of research on teaching, learning, administration, and basic education problems. Explores the birth and growth of this organization and suggests administrators get in on the ground floor of its activities. (Author/JN)

Outlines four alternative sets of regulations designed to prevent air pollution. These regulations are proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under a court order to prevent significant deterioration of the nation's air quality. (JR)

The newly appointed director of the National Institute of Education responds to questions about the institute's objectives. (JN)

By challenging the security of bureaucratic fiefdoms, the functionalists are put on the defensive. (Author/JN)

At five IMPACT sites, schools located near each other in southeast Alabama, students were involved in an experimental curriculum, designed to achieve a high degree of compatibility between the teaching of the arts and the humanities and the basic program of studies. (Author/RK)

A Congressman discusses current and future needs and priorities, and the role of the Federal and local government in adult education. (SP)

Citing reports from the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education and the Michigan Senate Education Sub-Committee, the author makes a strong case for taking action now in occupational education. (Editor)

Teachers will benefit from the Social Security amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-603, including Medicare coverage, increased cash benefits, and liberalization of the amount a retiree may earn while collecting social security benefits. (DS)

Excerpted from The Study of Higher Education'' printed with permission from the publisher, The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan. (DS)

Published with permission of the University of Kentucky. (DS)