The policy-making process of the State University System of Florida is described using David Easton's model of a political system as the conceptual framwork. Two models describing the policy-making process were developed from personal interviews with the primary participants in the governance structure and from three case studies of policy…

The report summarizes the activities of a seminar designed and conducted by the Career Education Policy Project (CEPP) of the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) and attended by 27 career educators. The seminar provided an insight into lobbying for education, with bureaucrats, congressional members and staff aides, lobbyists, education…

The purpose of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Conference (OECD) from which this paper is derived is to clarify the impact which educational policy has and can have on social structure (income and occupational) and individual life chances (social mobility and earnings). Most of the conference papers deal with analytical…

Based on the model used in developing the Wagner College Affirmative Action Plan (Wagner College, Staten Island, New York), the book provides conceptual guidelines and methods for implementing the job analysis approach to Affirmative Action plans. It should be useful to personnel directors, employment counselors, and manpower planners. The book…

Because the enrollment question is central to the resolution of a number of issues facing higher education, institutions as well as jurisdictional bodies have become increasingly concerned with the determination of future student demand. However, the changing characteristics of our population indicate the need for a new and somewhat more complex…

Section 1 examines the issues involved in the educational preparation of social workers. Section 2 concerns the supply-and-demand outlook for graduates in social welfare in the southern region in 1980. Broad issues dealt with are: (1) recent developments; (2) undergraduate issues; (3) educational resources; (4) potential employment for doctoral…

As one in a series of eight articles written by different professionals concerned with Alaska Native land claims, this article focuses on the debate of environmental issues prior to passage of the Alaska Land Claims Settlement Act. Designed to stimulate careful political/historical reading and discussion at an advanced secondary or adult level,…

This volume contains a collection of working papers designed to accompany the case studies of India and Latin America in providing a framework for the planning of educational broadcasting systems. The first two papers offer useful orientation to policy-makers who are considering educational television. Working Paper No. 3 compares the two media of…

Decreasing enrollments of American colleges and universities of all types and geographic regions are described that have resulted in many deficits since 1968-69. Contributing to the financial squeeze are inflation, unionization, and sharp reductions in the level of scholarships and research support. Studies of four-year liberal arts colleges…

This study examines the laws of Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, and New York in an attempt to determine who has what kind of authority to control the curriculum of public and private schools in each state. The five states studied were selected to represent different degrees of centralization in the control of school curriculum. The…

Faced with an old and increasingly complex card catalog and with proposed changes in the Library of Congress (LC) cataloging system, the Subcommittee on the Future of the Catalogs at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Library considered methods for dealing with these joint problems of catalog renovation and…

This study traces the origin and development of the Cardozo Model School Division, an area of Washington, D.C. having 17,000 poor children. Why did this particular reform shift in aims and alter shape between 1963 and 1972? Three factors played a major role in determining the direction reforms took. First, the particular reform perceptions of…

In 1969, after much controversy and the submission of many bills, the New York State Legislature passed--and the Governor signed--a school decentralization law. The law went into effect on February 16, 1970, with the major transfers of power operative on July 1, 1970. This report examines those aspects of the three-year school decentralization…

These eight essays on the Public Employment Program (PEP) were written by members of the Rural Manpower Policy Research Consortium. Essays are titled as follows: (1) "Public Service Employment and Manpower Policies in Rural Areas: Limitations of the Emergency Employment Act--EEA" (argument for integration of PEP with manpower,…

Assuming that schools, colleges, and adult education programs cannot alone produce significant rural improvement in developing nations, this booklet presents argument for educational policy that is part of a total planned rural policy and that incorporates an indirect rural bias. It is argued that if education with a rural bias is to be acceptable…