This bibliography includes entries for works published up to and including 1972. Australian education has been given a wide interpretation to encompass works published by Australians, in Australia, or about Australian education. Mimeographed as well as printed material have been included. Journals and journal articles, calendars, courses of study,…

The Cable Television Information Center, as part of its overall attempt to provide local governmental policy makers with the information and analytical tools needed for sound decision making, prepared a report to assist public officials who wish to develop technical standards for cable television (CATV) systems in their communities. The report…

In this paper the authors argue that the decision structures of educational institutions are multi-level, multi-decision-maker hierarchies which can be described and analyzed in decision theoretic terms and that these multi-levels, multi-decision-maker hierarchies can be reduced to equivalent one-level, one-decision-maker formulations, which can…

An attempt is made in this paper to characterize, and identify some of the basic issues in library research which require resolution. DeProspo's primary purpose is to suggest some of the reasons which lead to the conclusion that much of the research effort in librarianship, the objective of which has been to influence library policy, has been…

This manual comprises a syllabus containing the directives and materials used by program administrators of the Nebraska State Department Instructional Division in 12-hour training sessions designed to increase management planning skills. The compilation includes those materials supplied to the participants for the sessions, as well as the…

As the fifteenth of a series of national science policy reviews made in diverse countries, the background and the examiner reports on science policies in Iceland are presented in this book to provide information about the political, economic, and structural aspects of national research and development (R and D) goals. Scientific and technological…

This document reports the view and recommendations expressed at the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Group on Scientific and Technical Information of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It is divided into five sections: (1) Introduction, which advocates that policy for processing and disseminating scientific and technical…

This document provides information for the use of leaders concerned with the development of proposals and recommendations for national policy consideration. The first four sections discuss: the need for continuous education in the later years as a means to improve the circumstances of the older people; long-range goals of educational programs for…

In the last few years government agencies have expanded their controls over higher education and thus diminished the autonomy of public insitutions. Some of the recent instances of government intervention were the responses of legislators and government officials to student and faculty behavior they considered irresponsible and disruptive. In…

A national program to achieve comprehensive child welfare services of high quality in every community (universally available and equally accessible to all children and parents as their legally enforceable right) is proposed in this statement. The proposal is based upon the premise that children have certain rights and that society must make…

This paper stems from the renewed interest of the Committee for Economic Development (CED) in problems of urban poverty along with a desire to know more about the dimensions of poverty--who the poverty-stricken are, where they are located, how many they are, and why they are poor. The author illuminates and clarifies these questions through…

This report is one of a series of papers on policy alternatives commissioned by the California Legislature's Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. Most of the papers are directed toward synthesis and analysis of existing information and perspectives on the role of research in California. Topics cover the categories of research…

Questionnaires were sent to 244 English department chairmen in the public high schools of Michigan's six largest cities in this study, which (1) describes the content of the various book selection and book complaint policies used by the departments; (2) compares the effects these policies have on the inhibition or resolution of censorship; and (3)…

This report describes the organization and process of shared decisionmaking at the Mountain View Intermediate School in Beaverton, Oregon. According to the author, involvement in the decisionmaking process in this school is a matter of choice. The individual staff member may choose to implement decisions, become a permanent member of a…

This conference report on legislative decisionmaking in higher education is primarily concerned with the financing of colleges and universities. Management systems information is provided, and sessions were held on "How can a state tell whether or not it is getting its money's worth?" and "How to allocate funds for various segments of higher…