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Download full textDepartment of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. – 1978
This report describes the process of drawing up a national urban policy, summarizes the views presented at various forums, and sketches much of the data and analyses relied upon by urban policymakers. Part I summarizes the process of American urbanization leading to the emergence of a new stage in urban development. Part II describes changing…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Policy Formation, Public Policy, Urban Areas
STOUT, ROBERT T. – 1967
THIS REPORT SUMMARIZES RESEARCH ON THE FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE DECISIONS OF LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS IN EIGHT CITIES TO DESEGREGATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS, AND DISCUSSES THE RESPONSES OF THE COMMUNITIES TO SUCH DECISIONS. IN EACH OF THE CITIES, WHERE DECISIONS WERE MADE IN FAVOR OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION, THE SCHOOL BOARDS EITHER PRESENTED THE ISSUE TO THE…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Decision Making
BRUMBAUGH, A.J. – 1960
THIS DOCUMENT DISCUSSES THE BROAD AREA OF INSTITUTIONAL SELF-STUDY WHICH IS NEEDED IN POLICY DECISIONS, PLANNING, MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION. THE SPECIFIC AREAS OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH INCLUDE--(1) GOALS, (2) STUDENT, (3) FACULTY, (4) CURRICULUM, (5) FACILITIES, (6) ADMINISTRATION, (7) FINANCE, AND (8) PUBLIC RELATIONS. THE FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS OF…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administration, Educational Research, Facility Utilization Research
Dunn, William N. – 1977
This learning package comprises a portion of the National Training and Development Service Urban Management Curriculum Development Project. The six units included in the package focus on understanding, formulating, and implementing public policies. They additionally help to develop conceptual, methodological, and analytic skills essential to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Local Government, Management Development, Policy Formation
Harman, Grant – 1980
This paper seeks to draw together some of the main themes that run through the previous eight documents in this series. It also links these eight documents to the theoretical paper "Policy-Making and the Policy Process in Education." The author maintains that the most important theme to run through all these papers concerns both the nature of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Housego, Ian E. – 1980
This paper is based on the assumption that the educational administrator is the mediator in policy development. The author sees the administrator as caught between two conflicting approaches to policy-making--one characterized as "rational" and the other as "political." In attempting to deal with this dilemma and with the dilemma of shrinking…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1978
This handbook on how to involve parents in school activities, includes ideas and techniques which were used by Hawaii's kindergarten and elementary school teachers to (1) help parents understand how learning takes place; (2) provide parents with opportunities to observe and participate in classroom activites; and (3) work with parents and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Schools, Field Trips, Guidelines
Paddock, Susan C.; Sferra, Bobbie A. – 1980
This handbook for parents defines and describes the process of citizen participation in educational decision making. After describing the history of citizen involvement, the booklet answers questions regarding why and how community members can become involved in policy formation. Problems in participatory decision making and strategies for…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Community Influence, Community Involvement, Community Role
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1980
This report discusses UNESCO sponsored meetings concerned with the protection of journalists around the world. The first section of the report examines the efforts of UNESCO, including two studies commissioned by the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), which recommended that…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Equal Protection, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar, Ed. – 1980
One of a series of scholarly books published each year in the field of American Indian economic development, this volume contains two articles regarding the development of American Indian energy resources. In the first article, Richard Nafziger traces the exploitation of American Indian tribes by energy corporations whose main goal is overall…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Jacobson, Thomas L. – 1980
Third World nations' calls for a new international information order are discussed and the responses of Western governments and in particular of the United States government to those calls are analyzed in this paper. The paper notes the Third World countries' preferences for a more restrictive flow of information across borders, their limited…
Descriptors: Communications, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Copa, George H.; And Others – 1976
These simulation materials, designed to identify factors, priorities, and information needs in planning vocational education, consist of (1) a background information section outlining the setting and format of the exercises, (2) eight exercises, each of which focuses on a selected vocational education planning problem, and (3) a set of information…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Learning Activities, Management Development
Higgins, Scottie; Ross, John W. – 1979
Policy issues related to the concept of least restrictive environment (LRE) as required in P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act are reviewed and alternatives considered. Relevant legislation and litigation are reviewed in Chapter I, while the evolution of educational practice is illuminated in Chapter II in such special…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
1977
The fourth of eight delegate workbooks prepared for the May, 1977 White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals contains ballots for the workshop on attitudes toward the handicapped and provision of recreational and cultural experiences to the handicapped. The ballots are designed to enable delegates to assign priorities to various issues and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Conferences, Cultural Opportunities
Environmental Education in Action - III: Case Studies of Public Involvement in Environmental Policy.
Schoenfeld, Clay, Comp.; Desinger, John F., Comp. – 1979
Presented here are 27 case studies of public involvement in environmental policy. These are examples of environmental education or communications programs developed by local, state, regional or national environmental action groups. The reports tell how the groups have successfully, or unsuccessfully, mobilized public opinion in favor of beneficent…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Conservation Education
