Author offered a few conditions which he thought ought to exist and which might help aid the making of a consistent national policy in education. (Author/RK)

This thesis - together with the previous one related with the comprehension of messages - emphasises the importance of materialistic considerations (materialism in the philosophical sense of the term) in mass communication policies and also communication research. (Author)

UNESCO seminar discussions identifying problems involved in introducing general technical education into the general education curriculum and recommending feasible solutions are summarized. (Author/KM)

This study examines both the cultural and situational explanations of poverty. It also demonstrates the ideological implications of both, and finally it suggests a new perspective, the relational perspective. Chapter 1 examines the cultural perspective, according to which the lower class is seen as manifesting patterns of behavior and values which…

Volume IV, Part A of a six-volume final report (which covers the findings of a research project on policy and technology related to rehabilitation of disabled individuals) presents an overview of the methodology used in the project, much of the data used in projecting consequences and policymaking impacts in project analysis, and insight into…

This document is intended as a guide to directions in Australia's social, economic, and technical future as related to likely trends in the demand for telecommunication facilities in the early Twenty-First Century. From this exploration of the future of telecommunications, nine policy recommendations were made to guide telecommunication research,…

The American Indian Policy Review Commission appointed its first investigating task force members at the Commission meeting on June 13, 1975 to study Congressional policies and legislative action relative to American Indians. (JC)

Air pollution control authorities were forced to relax air quality standards during the winter of 1972 by granting variances. This paper examines the institutional characteristics of these variance policies from an economic incentive standpoint, sets up desirable structural criteria for institutional design and arrives at policy guidelines for…

Describes a school program designed to detect and prevent child abuse and neglect by training school staff members to recognize and report child abuse cases, and to teach future parents how to better understand themselves and children. (CS)

A legalization program for illegal aliens living in the United States is examined in this statement by Doris Meissner, Acting Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Meissner states that the Administration's current proposed legislation is designed to regain control of the immigration process through the development of…

Covering the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1980, and ending June 30, 1981, this annual report of the Assembly of Life Sciences (ALS) summarizes the major activities of this group. Information is organized into four sections: (1) The Executive Office; (2) The Division of Biological Sciences; (3) The Division of Medical Sciences; and (4) The Board…

The Task Force on Resource Allocation for Program Evaluation was established by Division H of the American Educational Research Association at the 1978 Annual Meeting in Toronto. This paper presents the recommendations of the Task Force concerning the allocation of resources for program evaluation. Program evaluation is needed to provide…

Trends in information policy are discussed as they impact on cartographic information, stressing particularly the relationships between cartographic communication, documentation, and policy making. Distinction is made between cartographic communication as a subject for information policy and cartographic communication as an expedient in public…

The studies counterplan, frequently used as a debate strategy by the negative, is unlikely to produce the desired effect in the United States Congress, its frequently mentioned target. First, Congress tends to move slowly, which implies that an optimal solution determined by a studies counterplan may not be adopted soon after the completion of the…

Through discussion and a test of theoretical models, the need to consider nutrition in development planning for rural areas is addressed, and the complex interaction of agricultural and food policies on family nutrition is described. Chapter I indicates the extent and types of malnutrition and discusses both the relationship of nutrition to…