Influencing the location of employment opportunities should become the basic policy for rural development. (LY)

Since there seem to be greater differences among cities and among rural areas than between the two categories, community developers should base their strategies on other criteria, such as education, economic or income levels, decision making patterns, organizational participation, and mobility. (LY)

The status of fixed service television in design and development, and its competition with commercial interests. (RA)

Suggests changes that are needed in order to successfully face urban problems including the formulation of policies on policy-making" and the need to improve education on policy-making approaches. (AA)

Citizen participation in public policy making is a serious jeopardy because of the frustration cause by an enormous avalanche of information, by the impersonalization of our institutions, and by the technological revolution. A small social action committee dedicated to the collective interchange of ideas and information and working in an…

While the intent of democratic evaluation of educational programs--to address unequal power relationships between clients, sponsors, and evaluators--is correct, it is not democratic in substance because it cannot accept as legitimate that which it wishes to change. It reaffirms the status quo. (IS)

To ascertain the degree to which presidential rhetoric establishes the public agenda, presidential policy statements from 1953 through 1979 across six areas of domestic policy were examined. Results indicate that presidents exerted varied leadership in advocating their agendas. (RM)

Brainstorming is a useful tool for problem solving and also to help employees develop, to establish policy, to improve communication, and to determine new business activities. (JOW)

This interview with the Director of the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) at George Washington University discusses: (1) what IEL is and how it functions; (2) how IEL meets the needs of educational policymakers and decision makers; and (3) other programs of IEL. (RL)

Identifies and analyzes three basic policy issues that pose limits to the practice of primary prevention in social work. These issues are the identification of clients, the unanticipated consequences of intervention, and the profession's capacity to implement primary prevention. Discusses formulation of primary prevention policies. (Author)

In this account of the drafting of the Evaluation Research Society (ERS) Standards, the author notes that the committee was concerned not only with a broad range of evaluation applications, but also with different forms of evaluation. The absence of specificity in the standards reflects the committee's steering between opposing views. (Author/LC)

Barbara Jordan's views are expressed regarding the merits of a clarification hearing (on the topic of minimum competency testing) over which she presided. The benefits of such a hearing as a process for illuminating educational policy issues are discussed. (Author/GK)

Reviews historical events leading up to creation of the journal and observations of course journal has followed since that time. Steady growth in proportion of empirical articles and dramatic rise in proportion of process-outcome studies symbolize division's continuing need for unity of thought. (Author/BEF)

Compares governmental coordinating activities in the higher education sector with regulatory governmental activities in other industries. Findings indicated that a great percentage of regulatory policies in higher education are based on industrial organization theory-based prescriptive models. The inappropriateness of these policies for higher…

Recommending that cooperative extension services employ lobbyists to represent their interests in Congress, the author defines lobbying, describes the techniques and tactics involved, and identifies studies of the effectiveness of lobbyists. (SK)