This monograph briefly explores the nature of independent business and the entrepreneur turned business manager, and presents the concept of a Council of Independent Businessmen for the advancement of independent business managers. A variety of experiences contribute to learning of any kind. The entrepreneur-manager should develop some means to…

An organizational study of the dynamics of interaction between the parent college and one of its component units is presented. The analysis is not limited to formal organizational structure and function. At relevant points, the dynamics of informal groupings and relationships are introduced. The research involved examination of a vast number of…

The County Planner's Manual is part of a set of 21 manuals (AA 001 009-001 029) used in APEX (Air Pollution Exercise), a computerized college and professional level "real world" game simulation of a community with urban and rural problems, industrial activities, and air pollution difficulties. The first two sections, which are the same…

This report is the last in a series of five describing a 16-month study of the nature and extent of the police industry in the United States, its problems, its present regulation, and how the law impinges on it. In this volume, certain types of public forces not having general law-enforcement responsibilities are described, including reserve…

Students can learn to grapple with real political problems by doing policy analysis, studies designed to produce well-supported recommendations for action dealing with particular problems. Instead of asking what is being done about particular issues, they could ask what should be done. These questions could be examined in a systematic and analytic…

Prepared originally (1958) as a report to a commission on the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of the American Indian, this document has been enlarged and updated to cover national Indian policy from the early 1900's to present (1964). For the period to 1929, information gathered from annual reports, the Meriam report, Assistant…

As a central feature of China's current domestic policy, rural resettlement is considered a vital strategy for combating revisionism, consolidating the proletariat dictatorship, restricting bourgeois rights, narrowing differences, strengthening the countryside, and promoting agricultural development. Since rural China has suffered from excessive…

This report reviews sex discrimination in counseling and guidance in secondary and postsecondary education. Following a review of existing research and literature and a critical discussion of the state of knowledge in this area, the report presents implications for policy and modes to implement needed changes. The primary focus is vocational…

The objectives of this phase, Phase 2, of the Schools and Neighborhoods Research Study were designed to yield research that would lead to action. The overall goal of improving communication and cooperation between the city, school district, and Seattle citizens was the basic consideration. The following were the objectives of this phase: to…

Sets forth some generalizations about the involvement and influence in state education policy-making of four kinds of actors: state boards of education, chief state school officers, governors, and educational interest groups. (Author)

On the premise that social policy analysis necessarily occurs within a political and ideological perspective the author outlines a radical perspective and examines the educational issues involved in developing and presenting the radical view of social policy analysis in social work education. (Editor/JT)

The managerial problems encountered in the merging of two schools of education are discussed. (JD)

The author suggests that, as public agencies make more of our decisions, we lose our power. Soon citizens will no longer be able to continue to make their own choices in education, and large portions of our population will be deprived of fundamental political freedom by the year 2000. (KC)

The author presents an 18-point action plan to develop youth's job skills and job opportunities. He calls for a comprehensive youth development policy including job stimulation, mastery of basic competencies and employability skills, and the establishment of local-state-federal youth development councils. (MF)

The author discusses rural employment and training programs and rural manpower policy under various federal laws. He indicates that separate manpower policies for rural areas may be justified, as rural areas may require greater remedial efforts. (MF)