Examines information technology (IT) policies and the roles played by federal agencies in developing and implementing IT management policies. Illustrates how selected policy prescriptions can prove to be problematic and offers recommendations on how to improve federal IT management. Contains 62 references. (AEF)

Examines factors that support or impede federal agency application and enforcement of information technology (IT) management policy. Describes the results of a study on the efficacy of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) information resource policy. Six tables present information on the policy framework for managing IT. (AEF)

Describes Soviet "people's universities" (networks of adult education programs) and the related Znanie Society, which offers individual lectures or short lecture cycles. Discusses their decentralized administrative structure, nongovernmental funding, and use of unpaid part-time teachers. Suggests that voluntary educational activities can…

Highlights the importance of designing integrated, coordinated social contexts to foster children's development. Summarizes effective program characteristics and guidelines for building lasting partnerships. Six types of involvement (parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, and collaborating with the community)…

This study examined the congruence of child protection agencies' legal positions, court clinic recommendations, and judicial dispositions in 59 contested child maltreatment cases. Placement recommendations/decisions were highly correlated; where there was disagreement between successive evaluations, it was in the direction of enhancing family…

Discusses the role of advocacy in bringing about change in child welfare agencies, focusing on the history of adoption practice in Canada. Notes that advocacy can serve both to keep child welfare organizations off balance and to apply pressure at decision points, providing a voice for clients and for society as a whole. (MDM)

Through an interagency, community-based approach, data were collected on 238 children with serious emotional disturbances in DuPage County, Illinois, including child's age, gender, race or ethnicity, learning characteristics, psychiatric status, and adjudications; parent marital status and employment; child's living arrangements; family history of…

Explores the role of NAEYC' accreditation in improving the quality of early childhood programs. Highlights the importance of the self-study process during accreditation procedures. (HTH)

Support services to prevent dropping out of at-risk students include family wraparound services, individual counseling and psychiatry, intensive in-patient treatment, and residential placements. An essential ingredient, interagency collaboration requires common understanding of purposes and goals, communication, and group process skills. (SK)

A unifying theoretical perspective, ecological theory, has evolved in school social work. This theory defines effective practice as interventions that take place in microsystems, mesosystems, and macrosystems as opposed to individuals. However, there is a lack of uniformity in practice. Analyzes the challenges of practicing ecological theory…

Examined the effectiveness of long-term treatment foster care placements. Results indicated that: much depends on change as well as stability in a family; a small number of children accounts for a disproportionate number of placement changes; supports after permanent placements into adoption or reunification are desirable; and a continuum of…

The assertion that evaluation has become institutionalized at state and local levels to a much greater degree than is commonly understood is supported by a discussion of trends in evaluation. Evidence is presented that evaluation plays an increasingly important informational role as the level of evaluation becomes more local. (SLD)

The demand for improved postschool outcomes has shifted school reform strategy from incremental efforts to fundamental change. Collaboration is consistently identified as an effective approach for fostering communications and creating new systems. Social and vocational educators must become skilled collaborators to influence the course of change.…

Discusses studies of CD-ROM life span done by 3M and the Federal Special Interest Group for CD-ROM Application and Technology (SIGCAT) and concludes that CD-ROMs have long life spans. A table presents test results, and industry specifications for CD-ROM discs and drivers are examined. (EA)

This summary of 1987 and 1988 seminar meetings on service delivery to people with blindness or visual impairments addresses: (1) service delivery systems (principles, the population served, and providers of services); and (2) the services provided, focusing on the blindness system as a system under siege. (DB)