Using fiscal data provided by the finance office of the school district, and personnel data obtained from the California Basic Education Data System (maintained by the California Department of Education, or CDE), the authors present analyses to provide a foundation for local policymakers that may be used to assess whether there are inequities in…

A project to produce reports on ten effective bilingual education programs is described. The work involved in generating the report series was conducted in four phases: site identification and development of report formats, selection of sites and report writers, visits of writers to the program sites, and review and submission of the reports. The…

Discusses current trends in psycholinguistics, particularly in reference to recent international linguistics conferences. (RM)

A pictorial essay on the proceedings of the 1975 Okaboji Conference. (HB)

Discusses a report prepared by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which concludes that the issues of scientific freedom and responsibility are inseparable. The report declares that scientific freedom is necessary for the advancement of knowledge, but that certain areas of research, such as that involving human test subjects,…

The Technical Report Service of Bell Laboratories specializes in procuring and distributing report literature. (PF)

Representatives of the various national affiliates reported on International Reading Association activities in their countries while attending the Second European Seminar held in Paris in December, 1973. (RB)

The purpose of the 13th Seminar on Family Research was to submit the theoretical frame to reevaluation, to challenge the legitimacy of the developmental approach as it appeared in the literature of the past decade. (Author)

Research techniques that were used during the last 20 years to examine the homeless were investigated to identify the types of homeless people studied and the advantages/limitations of various research strategies. The objectives of this investigation were to: (1) review and critique the type of data collected and the research methods used by…

A study was conducted to assess the extent to which (1) stockholders consider corporate annual reports to be informative and useful, (2) they actually read annual reports, (3) they consider annual reports to be impressive, and (4) they are motivated by the annual report to invest further in corporations in which they already own stock. After the…

An account of the content and scope of the Brussels satellite agreement. (HB)

Announces completion of a final report and summarizes recommendations of the Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project based on analyses of three different scenarios of how America's energy future might develop. The study urges that many conservation measures be planned and implemented. (RH)

A report on the UNESCO Bureau of International Education Geneva conference, June 10-13, 1974, on the transformation of secondary school book-centered libraries into media centers. (Author/PF)