In the last few years government agencies have expanded their controls over higher education and thus diminished the autonomy of public insitutions. Some of the recent instances of government intervention were the responses of legislators and government officials to student and faculty behavior they considered irresponsible and disruptive. In…

A national program to achieve comprehensive child welfare services of high quality in every community (universally available and equally accessible to all children and parents as their legally enforceable right) is proposed in this statement. The proposal is based upon the premise that children have certain rights and that society must make…

This paper stems from the renewed interest of the Committee for Economic Development (CED) in problems of urban poverty along with a desire to know more about the dimensions of poverty--who the poverty-stricken are, where they are located, how many they are, and why they are poor. The author illuminates and clarifies these questions through…

This report is one of a series of papers on policy alternatives commissioned by the California Legislature's Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. Most of the papers are directed toward synthesis and analysis of existing information and perspectives on the role of research in California. Topics cover the categories of research…

Questionnaires were sent to 244 English department chairmen in the public high schools of Michigan's six largest cities in this study, which (1) describes the content of the various book selection and book complaint policies used by the departments; (2) compares the effects these policies have on the inhibition or resolution of censorship; and (3)…

This report describes the organization and process of shared decisionmaking at the Mountain View Intermediate School in Beaverton, Oregon. According to the author, involvement in the decisionmaking process in this school is a matter of choice. The individual staff member may choose to implement decisions, become a permanent member of a…

This conference report on legislative decisionmaking in higher education is primarily concerned with the financing of colleges and universities. Management systems information is provided, and sessions were held on "How can a state tell whether or not it is getting its money's worth?" and "How to allocate funds for various segments of higher…

With the annual rise in tuition costs for undergraduate students, it seems as though there should also be an increase in the quality and diversity of programs and opportunities for those same students. However, the two conditions in the past have not paralleled. For this reason, the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE) was…

The Federal Government's position on the establishment and regulation of day care services in the United States is reported. The point is made that there are certain fundamental requirements and characteristics of children which every program must take into account. The most important of these basic needs include health and nutrition, security,…

This document is an English-language abstract (Approximately 1,500 words) summarizing a report presented at an international meeting of representatives of teachers' unions held in Sofia, Bulgaria. The scientific and technical advances of recent years as well as economic and social development in certain countries places upon teachers the…

The work of the United Nations Social Defence Research Institute in the area of manpower and training to develop policy and practice for crime prevention and treatment of offenders is described. A bibliography of 1,444 items is included. (NF)

This publication is the result of a survey conducted to compile information from European and North American countries about the various agencies which decide or influence the policy concerning science in the particular nations. The information is categorized for each country on the basis of four criteria: state, higher education, private sector,…

The utility of a particular citizen participation planning approach as applied to educational facilities planning is described. With the aid of a clear-cut decisionmaking procedure, citizens could participate effectively in the development of specific planning policy statements. Such statements could be used to discuss planning priorities, focus…

The purpose in preparing this bibliography is to provide access to a sampling of thought, primarily from the United States, on the formulation of international environmental policy as of early 1972. An attempt is made to avoid items which focus on specific international problems, cataloging only those with a broader approach to the whole problem.…

This paper cites some of the contributions that sociology has made to desegregation policy. The major contribution, made by public opinion research, is establishing the level of support or opposition to busing policy. A second contribution to desegregation policy has been made by those sociologists and social psychologists who have studied the…