Examines the Age Discrimination Act of 1978 and the conflict between the criteria of social choice that decision makers wish to employ to end the moral and legal constraints that nondiscrimination laws seek to impose on such criteria. Available from the Yale Jaw Journal, 401A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06820. (Author/IRT)

Maintains that national information policy should be geared to the preservation and encouragement of trial-and-error evolutionary mechanisms that will stimulate innovation in library and information services. Seventeen references are cited. (FM)

Presents questions researchers need to answer about the effects and the effectiveness of vocational education and discusses why these answers are imperative for the 1980s. (SK)

Identifies criticisms of public television, including mismanagement, underwriting abuses, declining public service, and overcommercialization. Discusses trends in the areas of corporate underwriting, program distribution, and program production. (JMF)

Green forecasts that unless evaluative thinking moves away from the educational research model, frustration will grow because findings are not applied to policy. Similarly, Gowin feels that concepts and values are just as important as facts. (CP)

The advantages of employing civil service-type personnel policies in the field of education are outlined. (JMF)

This article discusses the future of federally funded teacher centers and alternatives available to those responsible for shaping future policies. (JD)

Centers on importance of ideological thought systems in shaping political and organizational actions in educational governance. Argues that the ideological factor (1) links (or fails to link) school board members to their constituencies, (2) defines problems and processes for policymaking, and (3) communicates a mandate for action to school…

Educator and author Laurence E. Lynn recommends the case study as a method for training policy analysts to understand the cognitive style and uniqueness of the decision makers they serve. Analysts must be interdisciplinary, politically knowledgable, yet unbiased. Policy analysis, particularly by external institutions, is spreading to Congress. (CP)

Through examination of organizational activities and writings, this paper delineates the role of the National Catholic Educational Association in implementing the teachings of the Second Vatican Council in American Catholic schools. (SJL)

Highlights the new copyright law as it applies to television and films, particularly the concept of fair use. Discusses the problems the new law has presented to the educational use of copyrighted video and film material and suggests that such users organize to present their position more effectively. (JMF)

Presents a theory of debate as a comparison of policy systems, a theory which satisfies the unique speech act requirements of discussing policy proposals. Describes the basic model and illustrates it by reference to the interpretation of "should" propositions and the analysis of burdens of proof. (JMF)

Examines characteristics and needs of the widowed, Black, older adult. Special attention was given to the implications for policy. The general economic plight of widowed Blacks suggested the need for a basic floor of defined vital services that would speak to income, health, housing, and transportation. (Author)

Longitudinal research demonstrates that: (1) initial consensual goals are formalized incrementally over time; (2) directions of these changes are influenced by constituencies participating in policy formation as well as broader social movements; and (3) evidence for longitudinal implementation studies needs to be garnered from a confluence of…

Reasons why a written policy is advisable for high school administrators, publications advisors, and student journalists. (RL)