The purpose of this research was to survey selected Eastern Kentucky Principals (Elementary, Middle, and High School) to collect data about stress in public schools. A stress survey (Appendix C) was sent to randomly selected elementary, middle, and high school principals located in the Eastern Kentucky region serviced by Morehead State University…

During the period 1954 to 1976, the public's perception and ultimate reaction to busing went from mild disfavor to vehement rejection. An analysis of the information which seemed to cause this revealed that four factors seemed to be involved: the neighborhood school concept and its validity; the educational benefit to be derived from the program;…

This study sought to determine the perceptions of U.S daily newspaper publishers, editors, and education reporters regarding the desirability and feasibility of three approaches to increasing education news coverage: increased traditional local emphasis on education news coverage by daily newspapers, expanded wire service coverage of education,…

This study investigated the priorities for coverage of law enforcement news, of three groups: 146 citizens from the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area, 60 of the 68 police officers serving their communities, and 33 media personnel from the area. Subjects from all three groups were asked to rank stories about law enforcement in terms of their…

This study was initiated to determine the significant issues affecting metropolitan collaboration, as perceived by superintendents of selected districts in the Greater Boston Area. It was also intended to determine the existence of differences among superintendents in their perception of issues. The issues identified were those of community…

The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the events which developed in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Evanston, Illinois during the transitional period in which the public schools in each community moved from segregated to desegregated systems. One of the school districts resisted desegregation and was forced with a court order to desegregate its…

This study examines two psychological variables that could erode journalistic objectivity--the reporter's attitude toward his source and his expectation of future meetings with the source. Seventy student reporters were randomly assigned to conditions by instructions contained on assignment sheets. The hypotheses tested were that a positive…

The agenda-setting hypothesis that the media "cause" people to think about certain topics was tested in interviews with a panel of 69 residents of a small southern Illinois community in July 1975 and April 1976. Respondents were asked what they read in the daily newspaper and what local topics they had talked about recently. In addition,…

This book attempts to show how the relationship between the American daily press and other social institutions determines the press's definition of news, where it seeks news, and how that news is presented. Chapter 1 discusses news as a force of information, examines news as a sociological problem, and describes the difficulty of defining news.…

Four hundred fifty subjects at Texas A&M University provided data, through self-administered questionnaires, to evaluate the influence on readers of qualifying statements regarding technical performance claims in magazine advertisements. Each respondent was exposed to a single treatment by viewing one of 30 versions of mock magazine…

The study described in this report was designed to determine the general perceptions of public librarians regarding school library media specialists and to determine the influence of cooperative ventures on those perceptions. The population studies were randomly selected from all public libraries listed in "Georgia Public Library Statistics,…

Behavioral research suggests that communication between two individuals is affected by such factors as their orientation toward a topic, the importance of the topic, and interpersonal attraction. Seven hypotheses were formulated to determine if these factors--originally discovered in a discussion setting--were operative in an information-seeking…

Thirty library officers from 27 ships of the U.S. Navy participated in this study to ascertain the training needs of shipboard library officers in library administration and to determine their perceptions on their positions as administrators and managers of general libraries aboard ship. It was found that three-fourths of the officers were college…

This dissertation reports on a study of parental attitudes toward public education, with race and socio-economic status as controlling variables. "Your School" Scale was administered during interviews with 240 Indian, Black and White parents, and served as the dependent variable in the study. Race, socio-economic status and school…

This dissertation is a descriptive, comparative study of press-government relationships in the 34 nations of independent Black Africa south of the Sahara. Excluded from consideration are territories under European administration and those nations that have white minority governments. The 34 sovereign states are analyzed and systematically…