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Hispanic, 1992
Surveyed over 100 federal agencies and departments aimed at determining Hispanic representation in the federal workforce. Recognizes those federal agencies that are making a serious effort to reach out to the Hispanic community. Highlights top officials in the departments of Labor, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation, who have been…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Employment Opportunities, Federal Government, Government Employees

Meyerson, Adam – Policy Review, 1993
Arguing that the compiler of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" has ignored statements by conservative philosophers, "Policy Review" offers a sampling of 250 conservative quotations from 68 celebrities and world leaders from the past 50 years that ought to be considered for Bartlett's seventeenth edition. (SLD)
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Community Leaders, Conservatism

Kemp, Charles – Clearing House, 1999
Describes a program at a North Carolina high school in which students from the leadership class share an entire workday with a civic or government official. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Experiential Learning, High Schools, Public Officials
Bessas, Takis; Vamvakidou, Ifigenia; Kyridis, Argyris – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
This article concerns the ways in which pre-school children use the visual arts to portray their understanding of politicians. The purpose of this research was to discuss children's drawings of politicians using semiotic analysis. The use of semiotic analysis was based on the need to understand the nature of the drawings and their relation to the…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Semiotics, Linguistic Theory, Foreign Countries
Domier, Paddy Sertich – ProQuest LLC, 2009
With decreasing enrollment, decreasing funding for public school education, changes in family and societal needs, and the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers and school leaders are wrestling with reforms to the school calendar and instructional time spent in the classroom, with the goal of increasing student achievement.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Statistical Analysis, Block Scheduling, Academic Achievement
Miyazaki Ichisada – Chinese Education, 1974
Excerpts from a forthcoming book examining the procedures and results of China's Civil service examinations during the Ch'ing dynasty are provided. (DE)
Descriptors: Asian History, Comparative Education, Government Employees, Occupational Mobility

Hopkins, W. Wat – West's Education Law Reporter, 1988
Public officials are required to prove actual malice before they can win damages in libel actions. Reviews the Supreme Court's decisions regarding public persons and teachers and lower courts' conflicting rulings that teachers are public officials and that teachers are not public officials. (MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Legal Responsibility, Public Officials

Smith, Mary Lou – Small Group Behavior, 1984
Considers conditions in African cultures, particularly Nigeria, and examines the role of human relations training as a force in cultural change and modernization. Describes the training program at the Institute of Training and Organizational Development of the University of Pittsburgh. (JAC)
Descriptors: African Culture, Cultural Differences, Economic Development, Modernization

Rogers, David L.; Molnar, Joseph – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1976
Explores factors associated with role conflict and ambiguity in top-level administrators in selected public agencies. Expands the range of antecedent factors currently used in the analysis of role conflict and ambiguity by examining an organization's relations with other organizations as well as its internal characteristics. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, County Officials, Decision Making

McGee, Gale W. – Social Education, 1972
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Legislators, Moral Values, Political Attitudes
Grady, Daniel B. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1981
Five alternative approaches to computer operations are reviewed including: using a service bureau, joining others in operating a computer center, using in-house personnel for hardware operation and software development and maintenance, purchasing softward, and entering a full or partial facilities management agreement. (MLW)
Descriptors: Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Governing Boards, Higher Education

Joubert, Paul E.; Crouch, Ben M. – Journal of Negro Education, 1977
Analyzes the impact of the Voting Rights Act on black voter registration in Mississippi. Concludes that the future of black politics is highly uncertain in Mississippi. If the movement on the part of whites to disenfranchise blacks succeeds, and intimidation at the polls continues, advances made in the early 1970s could be seriously undermined.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Politics, Public Officials
O'Connor, H. Bland – School Business Affairs, 1989
As public officials become increasingly pressured to do more with less, the search for efficiency will expand. Efficiency studies are being undertaken to gauge organizational effectiveness in administration; personnel productivity; privatization options; materials management; mangagement information and control; and vehicle, equipment, and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education

Guy, Mary E. – Public Administration Review, 1993
Examines two decades of affirmative action and finds the number of women in decision-making positions disproportionately low when compared to their numbers in the public work force. Compares the status of women to that of men in career public management positions and argues that women have a way to go to reach parity. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrators, Affirmative Action, Females, Personnel Integration
Taylor, Ron – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2000
Describes how a group of approximately 200 African Americans around the U.S. are serving simultaneously as elected officials and as professors or administrators at institutions of higher education. Some of these double-duty officers teach political science. This trend reflects both the rise of black scholars and the evolution of black political…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, College Faculty, Higher Education, Political Science