The empirical results suggest that the tax-price paid by the median voter for public goods is a fundamental factor in the determination of how much a community will elect to spend on education per pupil. Available from North-Holland Publishing Company, P.O. Box 211, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; $10.00 single copy. (Author)

Explains how to use mortality data to illustrate social issues such as racial differences; life expectancies as affected by war, work, or sexual traits; impact of new social roles for women on longevity differences; and fairness of pension plans as related to sex of employees. (AV)

Although a literature review indicates a dissatisfaction of pharmacists with pharmacy education, a survey of registered pharmacists in Oklahoma, conducted to determine the attitudes and perceptions of practicing pharmacists, indicates that the majority of respondents have a favorable attitude toward current pharmacy education. (JMD)

Describes the development and testing of the North Carolina minimal competency testing program. (IRT)

In order to understand the emotional state that leads a young person to self-destruction, it is important to look at what is considered a normal adolescence. Lists four factors that explain why adolescence is a time of great depression, four myths associated with the reasons for suicide, some factors that create situations for which suicide is the…

The findings of a recently completed study comparing the responsibilities and duties of personnel directors in 1970 with those in 1977 are reported. Personnel departments grew both in scope of function and staff size, and staff members now take a much more active role in academic as well as non-academic personnel matters due to federal regulations…

This datagram examines applicant/population data for the past 50 years, modifies Lambson's method slightly, and presents projections for the number of applicants to U.S. medical schools for 1978 through 1990. (LBH)

Provides statistics on numbers of institutionalized persons, federal institutions, their populations, and staff manpower, and discusses characteristics of the Federal institution library; its special programs; institutional library services at the state level funded by federal grants; self evaluations of facilities, funding, and patrons; and past…

Several methodological flaws were found in a Public Service Research Council study relating increases in public employee strikes with the adoption of bargaining statutes. A replication, using teachers, suggests some nonstatutory factors that may strongly affect the incidence of teacher strikes. (Author/IRT)

The results provide support for the argument of special educators who maintain that one of the main advantages to be gained by education within the regular school system is the opportunity to acquire more normal codes of behavior through association with normal children. Available from: Executive Officer, NZCER, Education House, 178-182 Willis…

The scoring technique was used successfully to score the 1974 computerized patient management problems examination taken by pediatric candidates as part of the certification process required by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Problem types, strategies, and scoring details are described. (LBH)

Beginning in 1967 the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training required that apprenticeship program operators indicate the race or national origin and sex of all persons hired as apprentices in registered programs. Through June 1976 the number of minority group apprentices almost tripled with a much lower first-year dropout…

This author proposes a theory which seeks to explain the behavior patterns of Asian Americans within the context of socio-historical forces and the contemporary social system. The notion that Asian Americans have achieved middle class status and have been almost completely assimilated into the American mainstream is challenged. (Author/GC)

Brown's 1933 diagnostic test was used as a screening examination for 79 psychology students to determine their areas of weakness in statistical calculations, and to see whether the difficulties of a previous era have been changed by methods of teaching mathematics today. General similarities were found. (LBH)