This paper examined the debate on a reform of school-based management in Hong Kong, which was to set up the Incorporated Management Committee (IMC) to manage the subsidized school. The nature of the debate during legislation and the characteristics of the reform were examined. The advantages, disadvantages and the implications of the reform were…

Excerpts of testimony by the author before the Senate Subcommittee on Indian Education hearings, February-March, 1969. The education system, culturally biased toward whites, is discussed, as well as proposals for greater Indian control of education. (DM)

The director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy warns public television stations against sacrificing local autonomy in order to obtain permanent financing at a national level. (AK)

The authors present two views on the issue of local control of educational television programing.

Discusses the history and philosophy of the premise of rural localism from Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty to its present relationship to the New Federalism of the Reagan administration. Concludes that the concept and its consequences should be reexamined by those in the rural social work profession. (Author/BRR)

The 6 main recommendations and the proposed budget for FY '75 that the National Advisory Council on Indian Education presented in its first Annual Report to Congress are explained. (KM)

Cable television has been introduced to the public as a revolutionary development in communications, but its history, evolving structure, and present operation indicate otherwise. A few large industrial conglomerates have come to dominate the field of cable television and studies by private institutions and the regulatory activities of the Federal…

Views the issue of school desegregation as not a question of know-how,'' but a question of will. (DM)

Sets forth ways of equalizing educational opportunity in public schools so as to avert two separate societies,'' and evaluates metropolitan approaches to the problem. (DM)

Although 1951-1966 marked 15 of the most dynamic, hectic, painful, and questionable years of Iowa school district reorganization, 28 school district reorganizations have come about in the succeeding 15 years without a state law or Department of Public Instruction regulation mandating the elimination of certain kinds or sizes of local school…

The implications of cable television (CATV) common carrier access and economic and regulatory issues associated with it are examined in this paper. The first section provides a discussion of the feasibility and legal basis of common carrier access; the next section contrasts common carrier access with existing over-the-air television broadcasting…

A discussion by the President of the CBS Broadcast Group of the impact of consumerism on the development of community control of broadcasting. (JM)

This report describes a British local government's role in the provision of schooling. It identifies the benefits and limitations of that involvement, and draws out the implications for South Africa. The document focuses on the Birmingham City Council, its committees, departments, and services, and their current role in the city's schools. It is…