This illustrated booklet for delegates provides a very brief overview of the White House Conference on Families (WHCF). Contents include a welcoming statement by the conference chairperson, a review of preconference activities leading up to the conference, and lists of conference goals and themes. Officers of the conference as well as WHCF staff…

This report on the White House Conference on Families (WHCF) was prepared by the J.C. Penney Company for corporate leaders. Background information on the WHCF, issues related to families and work, a depiction of the changing work force, and policy recommendations are included in the report. Recommendations focus on flextime, flexible leave…

Reasons for underutilization of social research in public policy-making and the complexity of the concept of utilization are discussed. Among the factors affecting underutilization are the limitations of the social sciences and shortcomings of specific policy research. A common explanation of underutilization is the allegedly long-established…

According to Charles Lindblom, policy-makers are faced with so many constraints that, rather than using rational models of problem-solving, they are forced merely to "muddle through." However, muddling through is not only a necessity, it is often desirable. Experience designing and managing an administrators' development program…

Educational productivity offers a perspective but not a solution for many of the problems in American education. Because education produces several different products, several kinds of educational policy outcomes can be defined as productivity increases. These include improving classroom methods, curriculum structure, curriculum content,…

The document results from part of the Policy Options Project which identified and analyzed policy issues related to the delivery of appropriate services to preschool handicapped children and their families in terms of the need for assuring appropriate services, the factors affecting such policies, and policy approaches for the implementation of…

Four propositions and their policy consequences are advanced in this paper to identify pitfalls endemic to making policy in the rapidly changing area of telecommunications. The major point made in the discussion of these propositions and consequences is that any policy involving restrictive regulation of the rapidly changing field of…

The seventh of eight delegate workbooks prepared for the May, 1977 White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals contains ballots for the workshop on problems of severely disabled persons, especially those related to delivery of services and housing. The ballots are designed to enable delegates to assign priorities to various issues and…

This publication has been prepared to assist school districts in the State of New York to develop and carry out a materials selection policy for school libraries. Recommendations are made as to the development process, components, assumptions, and criteria of the selection policy. Procedures for dealing with controversial materials are also…

One of the most pressing issues for educational researchers is the utilization by courts of social fact evidence. The purpose of this research was to empirically analyze the performance of federal trial courts in a broad sample of representative cases. Using computer screening, a sample of 65 federal cases decided during 1970-77 was identified.…

The amount of time a school superintendent spends in the various functions of his job is studied. The data used were those collected by Robert Utter and Gordon Anderson in 76 school districts in the Metropolitan School Study Council and the Associated Public School Systems during 1964-65. Included were school systems ranging in size from 975 to…

This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of a task force that studied the role of the National Institute of Education (NIE) regarding curriculum development activities in the United States. Primary purpose of the report is to identify and recommend policy options to guide NIE's curriculum development activities. Part 1 contains a…

The papers contained in this document were commissioned for presentation to the Illinois Project on Accreditation, Certification, and Continuing Education, designed to define issues, analyze procedures, and make recommendations to the Illinois State Board of Education and a national audience of educators and policy makers. Two papers (Arnstein,…

This UNITAR News Issue presents the background and working papers prepared and utilized by the participants in a workshop on Planning for Internal Migration held in Jamaica and Cuba in April 1976. This workshop, attended by planners and government officials from the Caribbean and some Latin American countries, convened to discuss mutual problems…

Stressing the importance of American Indian involvement in affairs affecting Michigan's Indian population, this report by the Interim Action Committee on Indian Problems presents recommendations relative to education, employment, health, and the Commission on Indian Affairs. Recommendations for the commission emphasize: leadership at the local,…