Educators and legislators tend to have differing impressions of the definition of educational quality. Components of quality can be classified into three categories: (1) input, e.g., student characteristics, such as grade point average and test scores, and faculty characteristics, such as advanced degrees and publications; (2) environment/process,…

The linkage between policy research and policy formation can be strengthened through the use of qualitative methods. Currently, the linkage between policy research and policy decision making is tenuous; there are differences in philosophy, function, self-definition, and criteria by which success is measured. Although research cannot dictate the…

Produced as part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Records and Archives Management Programme (RAMP), this publication provides government and non-government archivists and records managers with a comparative study of past and present policies and practices for selecting moving images for…

In March and April 1974 guest lecturers from other universities were prevented from speaking at the University of Chicago and at Yale University because of disruptive demonstrations of protest. This article contains reports of committees from each university, requested by their respective presidents, regarding the issues involved in such…

Points out misunderstandings between the scientific community in the United States and the majority of elected representatives. Reviews the confrontation between the Congress and the scientific establishment over grant procedures used by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the degree of control that Congress exerts over the awarding of…

In presenting a framework for analyzing preferential policies that use racial, ethnic, or sexual classifications (modifying the correlation between classifications and relevant characteristic), the author, a defender of preferential policies, discusses objections to those policies that do and do not use racial or ethnic classifications to define…

This technological assessment, conducted by the Arthur D. Little organization, studied the technology of electronic funds transfer. Technology assessment analyzes the economic, social, environmental, and institutional consequences of the introduction or expansion of a technology into society and alerts decision makers to the possible future…

The paper represents the Office of Education's first comprehensive conceptual statement on career education. It discusses such aspects of career education as conditions for educational reform, a rationale, a definition, basic concepts, programatic assumptions, initial implementation of career education tasks, learner outcomes, and educational…

Shows how four postwar crises contributed to increasing official controls and restraints on a culturally pluralistic system of mass communication. (RB)

The author suggests that there should be a continuing policy for educative broadcasting especially sensitive to the needs of lifelong non-participants in formal post-school education. He recommends extending the amount of up-market programing, injecting educative content into the down-market programs, and giving maximum exposure to educative…

The United States will continue to have a high energy demand to maintain our present life style. The development of a national health policy statement that would serve to coordinate federal programs for research and regulation of environmental health is suggested. (BT)

The author attempts to reflect accurately the present dichotomy in adult education many Australians feel between established institutions, especially universities, and the processes of change emanating from both government and ground-swell activity and need. A perpetual tug-of-war between "Federal" and "State" elements is…

Examines how social policy analysis can be taught so that it is change-related rather than past-oriented. This is done by utilizing a scheme including the concepts of adequacy, effectiveness, and efficiency, that can be applied to both existing and new programs. (Editor/PG)