The essay analyzes the demands and constraints on the planning process, discusses new efforts by the Educational Planning Section of the New York City Planning Department to fill the gaps in Planning, and suggests guidelines and criteria for its own future planning and for that of planning agencies in other large cities." (Author)

This Montgomery County, Virginia, program won a national award from Keep America Beautiful, Inc., in 1969 Keep Virginia Beautiful Sweepstakes Award." (EB)

The library effort is in an excellent position to devise innovative state library agencies with leadership capacity to further the goal of improved library service without the problems associated with government. (Author/AB)

The semantic differential technique was used to compare the interpretation which state Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (VR) and Community Action Program (CAP) personnel applied to three critical concepts: Vocational Rehabilitation Agency, Community Action Program, and Poor Person. CAP personnel attributed a higher level of desirability to the…

Discussed is the proposal that California create an agency to oversee all the telecommunication systems in the state. (LS)

The article describes the recently formed Joint Action Committee of Organizations Of and Serving the Visually Handicapped, made up of groups that united to fight budget cuts in California. The harmful effects of recent legislation on visually handicapped people and on professionals in the blindness system are described. (Author)

Strategies for increasing evaluation research leverage are reviewed. Alignment of evaluation research with regulatory bodies with authority to suspend public program expenditures is advocated. Several likely obstacles in the development of the regulatory evaluation model are anticipated and addressed. (Author/RL)

Critizes the public child care policy with regard to adoption services through the story of "Joey", a black child in his teens. Shortly after his birth, Joey was sent by his teenage mother to a city agency for adoption and until now no real effort has been made to place him in a permanent home. (Author/MP)

Discusses the possibility that the memorandum on fair representation cases issued by the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board is invalid because it is a set of rules, promulgation of which requires compliance with Section 4 of the Administrative Procedure Act. (Author/IRT)

The father of a child with osteogenesis imperfecta, an orthopedic condition, recounts his struggles to convince local agencies to operate a swimming program for disabled students. He offers eight guidelines for advocating such programs in other areas. (CL)

Describes the cooperative efforts of the Nova Scotia Department of Education, New Brunswick Community College and the Departments of Labour and Manpower of the two provinces to develop a curriculum for apprenticeship training programs. (JOW)

Describes one agency's experience in developing a computerized information system. Problems encountered and their solutions are discussed. (MS)

The Leadership Practices Inventory was completed by 529 of 754 volunteer managers. They had higher mean scores than managers in other fields and were stronger in inspiring, modeling, and encouraging behaviors. Results suggest that effective volunteer administrators integrate personal vision with organizational values, encouraging volunteers and…

Reviews the role that accreditation plays in defining and enforcing the credit-hour measure. Regional accreditation agencies are generally more flexible in terms of defining credit hours than are national agencies, which are more rigid in their expectations. Specialized accrediting agencies usually make the least mention of credit units. (SLD)