Provides background and events leading up to the Korean War. Elaborates by examining President Truman's, Secretary of State Acheson's, and General MacArthur's views about the conflict. (BSR)

Discusses aspects of the school dropout problem: figures and trends, related youth problems (unemployment, crime and vandalism, drug and alcohol abuse, political alienation, teen pregnancy and childbirth, homicide and suicide), and suggestions for solving the problem. (CT)

This article argues that environmental awareness has a substantial impact on law, both as a technical discipline and as a policy process. It further develops the concept of ecomanagement and reviews the role of environmental impact assessments in policy development. (JDH)

This article presents a theoretical framework for classifying policy decision in education. The framework is a taxonomy for systematic exploration of regularities in the policy system and for explaining the processes by which state education policies emerge or shape school performance. (Author/CB)

Four components of comprehensive Hispanic group service are identified: assessment of the Hispanic community; a balanced program of groups that address social goals and groups that are reciprocal and remedial; knowledge of cultural and process issues; and the role of the Hispanic collaborative of community workers in effecting policy. (Author/BL)

Defines the mission, principles and purposes of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC). Identifies state and national policy areas which AACJC will target in 1986. (LAL)

Examines issues and problems related to the establishment of formal policies for research ethics at universities, considering prevention versus policing, fraud, and peer review. Includes excerpts from a University of Michigan report titled "Maintaining the Integrity of Scholarship" and actions being taken as a result of the report. (JN)

Presents an analytical framework for investigating transitions of White men among full-time work, partial retirement, and full retirement. (SK)

Describes the equipment and classroom procedures used for conducting teleconferences. Provides examples of high school students' teleconferences with historians and political representatives. (JDH)

The key factor for consideration in formulating a long-term, U.S. international trade policy is that many democratic countries have brought government into direct or indirect management of their industrial affairs. As an example, the relationship of government to steel in Japan is analyzed. Business and industry should not be protectionist. (RM)

The suggestion that universities, because of decentralization and loose coupling, lack strategies is examined. Decision-making at the university is considered, and it is found that because of the ways in which decisions are made--by professional judgment, administrative fiat, and collective choice--a degree of consistency is produced. (Author/MLW)

Explores how Indiana state legislators use statehouse reporters for information and publicity purposes, identifies characteristics of lawmakers associated with particular motivations for using reporters, and relates these characteristics to how reporters are perceived to influence the policy making process. (FL)

Examines presidential attitudes toward education and speculates on how a second Reagan term or a Mondale presidency would affect education. (MD)

Examines what can and should be done to clarify and/or resolve scientific conflicts with policy implications. Includes a typology for classifying controversies, mechanisms, and objectives with regard to scientific disputes with policy implications. This apparatus aims to show the differences in disputes and in approaches to deal with them. (JN)

Analyzes decisions of the California appellate courts and of the United States Supreme Court, made from 1858 to 1980, concerning education (with respect to educational policymaking). Suggests the New Federalism may cause major changes in the role of the courts in education. (MD)