The summer food service program for children, authorized by the National School Lunch Act is one of several childfeeding programs which the Congress authorized to safeguard the health and well-being of the nation's children. Serious abuses, criminal as well as administrative, have occurred in the summer feeding program. Most have involved private…

Larger urban school districts are no longer hospitable to outside researchers wishing to use the schools' staff, students, and resources in research that frequently is either poorly designed or useless to the schools. However, the University of Texas Research and Development Center for Teacher Education has enjoyed a good working relationship with…

The important phases of planning and constructing physical facilities for universities and colleges are brought together so that persons responsible for providing these facilities can readily evaluate their present policies and organizations. The subject is addressed from the point of view of the professional physical plant administrator. The text…

Some authorities on technolgoy transfer feel that industry is not fully capitalizing on the inventive output of universities and nonprofit organizations. From the point of view of the government, the stakes are high. The magnitude of federal support of research and development in these organizations demands evidence of useful results if it is to…

The relationship between academe and the federal government in discovering, controlling, and implementing uses for scientific technology or inventions is addressed in this speech. The sheer magnitude of government support of research and development at universities demands evidence of useful results if it is to be continued in the prevailing…

Presenting information regarding the inception and first-year activities of the Consortium of States to Upgrade Indian Education through State Departments of Education, this report includes: acknowledgments; data re: funding; an introduction; participation (a map depicting the 13-state membership and a list of Consortium participants); project…

The centralized, federally controlled, public educational systems of New Zealand and Australia are in a state of disequilibrium and change. While the federal departments of education still remain the one institution in the education system capable of an informed, overall view of the entire scene, the pressures toward decentralization (including…

This volume consists of six papers. "Harold Pinter's 'The Birthday Party': A Language Problem in the Teaching of Literature," by J. McDonough, examines the area of overlap between the style of Pinter and the teaching of literature to foreign undergraduate students of English. "Linguistic and Psychological Background to Sequencing of Initial…

This article discusses the employment outlook for those students combining foreign language skills with expertise in another area. Information gathered from multinational organizations, the Association of Export Management Companies, the United States government, and 1975 newspaper classified advertisements all indicate a wealth of opportunities…

In a given urban area it is common that different public agencies and offices attempt to gather diverse data with no mutual coordination or awareness of each others' activities. This picture of varied and uncoordinated data needs reflects a lack of established information relationships and the need for an urban information system. In this study an…

Various aspects of public education in Portland, Oregon, since 1950, are reviewed in this document. Past enrollment trends, the current decline in enrollment, and the demographic distribution of that decline are described. Possibilities for future enrollment are examined based upon assumptions about future fertility and migration trends. In…

The personal characteristics of teachers and the situational characteristics of work settings were identified and studied in relation to adoption and implementation of innovations among teachers. One hundred teachers were administered a questionnaire to identify teacher and situational characteristics. A subsequent interview determined the…

The conditions necessary and the standards of quality to be met for programs leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree are described in this policy statement. The doctoral program is defined as being designed to prepare a student for a lifetime of intellectual inquiry that manifests itself in creative scholarship and research often leading to…

To facilitate the international exchange of educational information contained in scholarly journals, and to test the operational tools of the EUDISED network of national agencies specializing in the electronic data processing of educational information, abstracts of 300 articles from education sciences periodicals published in 1975 were compiled…

The author speaks from experience as president, since 1971, of the University of Cincinnati, the nation's second largest urban university; two previous administrative positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo; and the specialized field of the organizational development of large management systems. Eleven chapters, nine published…