This study is designed to facilitate access for policymakers to the wealth of recent reports on American education. Section 1 examines the findings and compares the recommendations of nine of these reports in such areas as school organization and management, curriculum, and teachers and teaching. The report synopses in section 2, which are largely…

Outlining current issues of educational concern as presented in national debates, this guide provides a format for discussion. The first chapter provides introductory and background information on four major areas believed to be the main responsibility of the schools. Each of these four issues is the subject of a separate chapter. Specifically,…

The results of a national survey of sociologists indicate that over sixty percent commit most of their time to teaching. However, there is an inverse relationship between the prestige of a graduate department and the percentage of department members who consider teaching to be their primary work activity. (Author/DE)

Uses results from the 1975 Ladd-Lipset Survey, a national survey of faculty opinion, to compare engineering faculty and all faculty surveyed. Engineering faculty members are more inclined to view themselves as professionals and scientists than as scholars and intellectuals, and 38 percent view themselves predominantly as teachers. (MLH)

Although progress has been made in the last 15 years in the development of medical school departments with interests in the various behavioral science fields, including anthropology, based on this study only five percent of U.S. medical students had the opportunity to attend lectures in the field of medical anthropology. (Editor/JT)

Recent national surveys conducted by the Council on Environmental Quality and others uncovered inconsistencies and confusion in the manner environmental quality parameters were used and reported. A standard air pollution index, comparative guide to water quality indicators and biological monitoring information are being developed. (BT)

Drawing upon the large national surveys conducted in 1969 by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, along with data collected more recently, the authors provide a basis for understanding distributions of political attitudes among political scientists. Political science is one of the more left-of-center academic disciplines. (Author/DE)

A national survey of two- and four-year college journalism advisors indicates that there is censorship of the student press for a variety of reasons. (RB)

Presents the results of a survey showing that very few professional people use written outlines in preparing their work, raising the question of whether students should be taught to prepare written outlines in technical writing classes. (RB)

This report is the 59th in the "Juvenile Court Statistics" series, a series begun in 1929 which serves as the primary source of information on the activities of juvenile courts. It describes the number and characteristics of delinquency and status offense cases disposed during 1985 by courts with juvenile jurisdiction and addresses some…

Past research has shown that a relatively small number of youths are responsible for a large proportion of the offenses committed by juveniles, leading juvenile justice practitioners to ask what the courts can do to intervene early to deter these youth from committing further serious delinquent acts. To answer this question, a research study was…

Database documentation is provided for users of a data file consisting of a directory of all main public libraries in the United States. The directory development survey began with the mailing of a computer printout containing listings of each state's public libraries to the chief officer of the appropriate state library agency for updating. A…

A data file, consisting of a directory of all main public libraries in the United States, is presented. The data file contains data gathered using a directory development survey that began with the mailing of computer printout listings of each state's public libraries to the chief officer of the appropriate state library agency for updating.…

This paper, the first of two related documents, presents the findings of a survey undertaken for the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST) to determine current practices in Ph.D. granting institutions regarding standards, goals, and objectives of this terminal degree in theater in the United States. The survey presents information…