The text of the Director of the National Institute of Education's February 27 address to the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans. (Author/JM)

This study examines the structural characteristics of community colleges at regular intervals. Five major growth stages were found, each similar to a theoretically derived growth period. (Author)

Examines and evaluates the use of "active labor market policy" to attempt to make the "uneasy triangle" of full employment, price stability, and collective bargaining more tolerable while at the same time promoting the cause of greater economic equality and growth. (Author/JM)

A look at the advocate team process, a relatively new administrative curriculum and planning technique, the basic purpose of which is to generate and detail alternative strategies. (Author/HB)

Concentrates on studies of growth, composition (industry and population), and spatial form of urban areas--models of growth and intraurban land use, and urban simulation and efforts to build large scale statistical models for analyzing the impact of government policies on patterns of urban development. (RJ)

An excerpt from Forward Plan for Career Education: Research and Development,'' prepared by the Career Education Development Task Force, National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, April 1973. (Author/JM)

Deals with a recent effort at urban reform, the movement for community control over schools in America's largest cities; putting theories into practice is as difficult as ever. (DM)

The educational policymaking process at the State level was examined in New York. One central interest was the extent of perceptual congruence between educational interest group leaders and State legislators concerning influence strategies in the policymaking process. Results of the study indicate that there are important perceptual differences…

An examination of the history of the American Federation of Teachers which explores its relationship to school integration and teacher distribution as well as its militant role in civil rights activities and social welfare policies. (JM)

Describes the state of present national legislation that could affect early childhood development and discusses the implications of proposed legislation and programs for a national child development policy. (JH)

Stresses need for counselor involvement in decisions concerning student disturbances, and in dialogues with young people in and out of the office. Counselors must "become real by indicating concern, listening, examining options. (CJ)

In this time of students' active show of dissatisfaction with university policy, it is better to have several student representatives sitting on administrative committees than to have several hundred sitting in the administration building. (Author)