Suggests using paragraph frames or models for helping poor readers recognize and write basic patterns of organization such as listing, time order, cause-effect, comparison-contrast, and character analysis. (MKM)

The author presents intelligence and learning as theoretically and empirically separate concepts. Examining Spearman's "g" factor and the evolution, phylogeny and psychometrics of intelligence, he concludes that "g" is of dominant importance in scholastic learning. He notes some implications for equal educational opportunity.…

Because of serious economic recessions, adult educators are casting about for a unified philosophical core to justify their existence. The Russell report and Venables report attempt to justify adult education. Different interpretations of need entail radically opposing educational concepts. If the formal education concept cannot rest on a unified…

Outlines the development of public library policies and relationships with local government. Discussed are the prototype library, the imbalance of funding between large and small libraries, lack of theory in library education, and implications of the collectivist theory. The need for strong leadership and evaluation of library programs is…

Sketches a new educational framework for library science students to integrate library science into the field of information science and discusses six areas of future development. Major problems for the new information environment are information imbalance, availability of information, information literacy, and the need to maintain a human aspect.…

This paper examines factors contributing to the flow of undocumented migrants from Mexico, demonstrating the problem to be both massive and enduring. Focused on are the inadequate growth of productive employment, income inequality, and rapid population growth. (Author/EB)

This paper provides a detailed description of the pattern of occupational adjustment of the Vietnamese refugees to the United States and compares their experiences with other recent refugee and immigrant groups. (Author)

Focusing on a group of drug users, this article examines behavioral and attitudinal coping strategies in paranoia and illustrates how the management of paranoia may create elaborate interaction rituals which serve both to "protect" group participants and to reinforce a collective orientation among them. (Author/EB)

The paper discusses the lack of governmental guidance in providing for the rights of handicapped children in Scotland. (PHR)

Presents a brief history of the struggle over public telecommunication's use of the satellite interconnection, a struggle in which private stations rejected the Public Broadcasting System, culminating in an alternative for system governance of the interconnection. (Author)

A developmental view of program evaluation is offered that suggests that each stage requires a different purpose and method. This perspective is illustrated in a description of evaluation procedures used to assess a child development program for adolescents. (Author/MLF)

Discusses the implications of the Weber decision which focus on the Supreme Court's interpretation of racial imbalance and the emphasis of the decision on the private sector. (RLV)

Describes how an educational broker accomplishes the task of successfully matching educational resources with the needs of his adult education customer: the role of the educational broker, establishment of his database, accessing the data, publicizing the center, delivery of service, and the library's role/responsibility. (Author/JD)

The Guyanese setting, the development of the new coalition of Guyanese elites, their objective interest and nationalist politics, and the social profile of the new elite of Guyana are discussed in this paper. (Author/RLV)

Discusses the issue of faculty unionization on college campuses. The case of Yeshiva University is presented as the future of unions in the 1980s is considered by the Supreme Court. (SA)