An introduction and background to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) discusses how decisions were made as to what objectives were assessed and how the evidence was interpreted. (Author/KM) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Program Description.

Article focused on the governments efforts to define its responsibilities toward children through a series of White House Conferences on the care and protection of children. (RK)

By selecting vantage points on thebasis of the issues involved and the circumstances that surround them, and viewing the process of governance from more than one perspective, the author presents a viable approach to governance of higher education institutions. (Author/PG)

A discussion of the Federal Communications Commission's Prime-Time Rule'' restricting local TV station use of network programming in key evening hours and its implications for television programming. (HB)

Committee T of the American Association of University Professors reports on college and university government. (PG)

Explores the issues involved in the relation of genetics to intelligence to social-class position, the credentials society, preferential hiring, and the influence of these relationships on social policy. (DM)

Dissents from the views of Ivan Illich. (DM)

Describes types of administrators in their decisionmaking. (Editor/HS)

Planning for an institution is impossible when the budgeting process is used as a political tool for change. (Editor)

Foresees another encounter between the courts and the political system of the democracy over the issue of equalizing educational expenditure. (DM)

Describes the effects of the new act that brought about a redistribution of power in the management of the university. (HS)