The project group, "Preparedness for Peace," does research and development work on peace education and related aspects of internationalizing of school teaching. This miniprint lists 135 reports and miniprints from work published during the years 1990-1993, and includes reports and miniprints related to the work of the PEC (Peace…

This report accompanies H.R. 1757, the National Information Infrastructure Act of 1993. The bill, intended to provide for a coordinated federal program to accelerate development and dissemination of applications of high-performance computing and high-speed networking, is favorably reported by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology with an…

This directory of organizations in educational management is designed to guide users to sources of information on the management of elementary and secondary schools. It includes both organizations engaged in research and development and those providing service to the educational management profession. Organizations include federally funded…

Describes the serious financial crises facing the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California. (PG)

This guide provides an overview of the National Education Research and Development Centers sponsored by the Office of Research of the U.S. Department of Education. Information provided for each of 23 centers includes the nature of the center's work, its location, and the names of its principal researchers. Center listings are divided into two…

This special issue of the "Family Life Educator" features a planning document on adolescent pregnancy prevention designed to assist communities throughout the United States in translating the National Research Council's recommendations and strategies from the "Risking the Future" study into steps for future action. An introduction provides a…

This report describes the conceptualization and planning for the Center for the Study of Learning at Northern Illinois University. The center's mission is to provide an institutional setting for the discovery, synthesis, and dissemination of knowledge about learning in three subject areas: mathematics, sciences, and social studies. The report…

This document contains three papers concerned with prevention intervention research, a new area of depression research which has shown great promise for contributing new knowledge to the understanding of depression. The first paper, "Clinical Trials vs. Prevention Trials: Methodological Issues in Depression Research" (Ricardo F. Munoz), emphasizes…

A study examined (1) how advertising practitioners perceive research related to their profession, (2) how advertising practitioners learn of current research results, and (3) how, if at all, advertising practitioners use research. Individual discussions with advertising practitioners in the San Diego market led to an initial bank of items from…

The Austin Independent School District (AISD) Office of Research and Development, presents abstracts of research projects conducted by external agencies or individuals within AISD. For 33 projects, this report contains the AISD project number, project title, project director, project sponsor, schools where conducted, and whether or not a full…

This paper investigates how recent changes in the telecommunications industry are likely to affect government research and development policies by analyzing how changes in the market structure--in particular, increased competition in the industry due to domestic deregulation and international competition--change the political economy of government…

THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE ANXIETY LEVEL OF SUBJECTS WILL AFFECT THEIR TENDENCY TO ACCUMULATE REACTIVE INHIBITION WAS TESTED. THE STUDY EMPLOYED THE CHILDREN'S MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE TO IDENTIFY 120 HIGH AND LOW SCORERS AND AN INVERTED-NUMBER PRINTING TASK TO QUANTIFY REACTIVE INHIBITION. THE HYPOTHESIS WAS PARTIALLY CONFIRMED. WITH HIGHLY MOTIVATING…

The role of co-investigator, in which the teacher leaves the classroom for half a day to work on a selected research project, is delineated. Teacher collaborators become involved as active participants with professional researchers in all phases of the research project in progress. The issues involved in collaboration, including the…

This study reviews some selected characteristics of 907 institutes and centers in 51 Land Grant Universities in each of the 50 states and Puerto Rico. The institutes and centers discussed were all formally identified by specific names and titles in the Research Centers Directory and were established on a permanent basis as separate entities for…