A summary is presented of the issues and concerns discussed and the recommendations made by the American Vocational Association's (AVA) Technical Education Division Policy Committee during its meeting at the 1975 AVA Convention. (AJ)

Describes legislation creating the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Outlines the responsibilities, organization, and performance to date of this office. (GS)

Explores the arguments that justify a three-member council for science and technology and outlines the nature of the tasks to be performed by such a council. (GS)

Author provided a list that is a speculative outline of how the energy awareness might influence the arts in the immediate future. (Author/RK)

The Institute for Educational Leadership, operated by the George Washington University and supported by a Ford Foundation Grant, seeks to strengthen leadership in American education at the policy level in the federal government and in the states. (Author)

The ability to render more accurate predictions of the future will enable medical educators and administrators to make more advantageous policy and program decisions. Examples of how modern forecasting techniques can be applied to medical education are provided. (Editor/PG)

The 21 resolutions approved at the American Vocational Association (AVA) New Orleans Convention reflected: concern about the economy, the single State agency concept for administering funds, more resources for research, and support for the adoption of the metric system. (EA)

The National Council of Local Administrators invited their State presidents and past presidents to a workshop to help identify ways of making an impact in various areas of concern on State advisory councils for vocational education. (Author/EA)

Clark Kerr, the chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, conducted a conference concerning their first major report. The council's main thrusts in this report are universal access and maintenance of the research capacity of the universities. (Author/PG)

While there has been an increase in the number of women elected to state legislatures, little is known about the impact of gender on state legislation. A longitudinal analysis was conducted of bills proposed by individual legislators in the Arizona State Legislature between 1969 and 1986 to investigate the relationship of gender to public policy…

The Comprehensive Plan for the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) in New York State contains both long-range goals and short-term actions for the next 20 years with a series of specific actions proposed for the current 3-year (1985-87) period. The first chapter provides program background with sections on OVR'S mission, recent trends in…

Immigration has historically played an important role in supplying United States labor needs. However, current immigration and immigrant policies emphasize noneconomic selection criteria, such as family reunification, for determining the annual volume and characteristics of legal immigrants. Declining United States fertility rates and an…

In November 1984 and April 1985, two national conferences devoted to the topic of teacher induction were hosted in Austin, Texas, by the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas, Austin. These conferences were a part of the center's ongoing research in teacher induction, the most recent effort of which was…

This document contains six essays examining the history and impact of the social security program on America's economic and social development. "Social Security: The Cornerstone of American Social Welfare Policy," by Malcolm H. Morrison, presents brief background information on the system and discusses the basic principles of social…

This report describes a technique for establishing relative priorities among policy issues that have been systematically identified in and extracted from written documents. The method involves assigning values to five factors that affect an issue's priority. These factors are: uncertainty, or the degree to which information is lacking; imminence,…