Intended to provide journalists with concise, authoritative background information on immigration to the United States, particularly from Latin America, this guide is one of a series treating topics of continuing concern to the U.S. media. The United States accepts more legal immigrants every year than all other nations combined: 526,000 in 1979…

This paper reports on the High/Scope National Policy Conference, which was concerned with the process of designing good early childhood legislation and the political processes that enhance or impede legislative passage. Discussion began with an overview of the range of options facing policymakers as they attempt to design legislation or write…

This document is an assessment of the service needs of one state's juvenile court wards written by a group of representatives of private and governmental agencies involved in working with children in the juvenile justice system. The group's goals were to generate accurate program and fiscal information about the juvenile justice and juvenile…

This introduction to a collection of articles on the status of the relationship among educational research, policy, and practice in countries around the world notes that, while research findings influence the development of pressures for change in educational policies and practices, the policy-makers and practitioners, in their turn, influence the…

Detailed are the research findings of a national study of parental leaves. Basic objectives of the study were to: (1) collect data that would provide a picture of current leave policies, practices, and attitudes at some of the nation's largest companies; (2) discover how policy translated into practice by gathering information about the…

This document presents the testimony of Rosslyn Kleeman, the senior associate director for the General Government Division of the United States General Accounting Office (GAO), before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. It discusses the work being done by the GAO in a study of the operations of advisory committees within a number of…

The relation of the concept of metapolicy to the evaluation agenda is discussed. Metapolicy is a general rule or policy about how public policies should be made or implemented. Broad shifts in metapolicy create new agenda items for evaluation. If the shift is toward reduced federal involvement in social programs, new evaluation questions are not…

This paper examines two issues in telecommunications policy in which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has attempted to pursue policies that were distant from the policy desires of their supervising committees in Congress, and in which congressmen made use of various instruments of congressional influence: the FCC's attempt to…

This document reports the accomplishments of state councils on vocational education over the past 4 years as they carried out their responsibilities set by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It contains an introduction; three sections on findings, on the councils' work on policy issues, and on the councils' function as friendly…

Town meetings or public forums arranged to discuss issues of interest to citizens are as old as the settling of the United States, and they continue today as part of the democratic system. The Public Agenda Foundation maintains this tradition through a special series of community forums, known as the National Issues Forums (NIF), that annually…

This document contains transcripts of witness testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to review the need for a national health care policy for long-term care. Opening statements are presented from committee chairman Claude Pepper and from Representatives Sala Burton and Barbara Boxer. Testmonies are presented from…

Educational policy and the institutional goals of teacher education should be complementary and mutually reinforcing. However, interests, perspectives, and pressures that influence the evolution and implementation of educational policy often differ from those that shape the institutional goals of teacher education. A comprehensive framework for…

The author, a United States Senator, aimed to use the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth to take a broad view of the many forces - including government policies - affecting children and youth and to act as advocate for them in the Senate. (Author/RK)

Authors offered a provocative guide to what the public response to the Coleman Report may be; they reacted both positively and negatively in the name of parents, young people, taxpayers, teachers, and legislators. (Editor/RK)