The need to expand the traditional definitions and identification processes for selecting honors students is emphasized, and a set of principles for selecting participants is suggested. (MSE)

The Council for Environmental Education (CEE) was established in 1968 to provide a focal point for coordinating and disseminating advice on environmental education and to promote appropriate policies. Activities and accomplishments of this organization during its first 10 years are discussed. (JN)

The postsecondary education policymaking process in Australia, rather than being goal-oriented and rational, is a series of adjustments to existing policy dictated by political expediency, often over many years and changes of government and leading to decisions reflecting unstable origins. This committee's broad influences illustrate this process.…

The role of the Higher Education Energy Task Force as a catalyst in the conception, development, and execution of campus master plans is discussed. Included are a sample checklist for a physical plant tour, sample list of conservation ideas, and suggestions for coordination of administrative ideas. (MSE)

Prototypes and policy models suitable for adaptation to specific states and policy issues are presented. Examples of adapted models are also provided: the systems model adapted to Pennsylvania and the policy model adapted to the issue of state support for independent institutions in Pennsylvania. (Author/LB)

Assessed environmental educators' perceptions on four environmental education goals--ecological foundations, awareness of issues and human values, investigation and evaluation of issues and solutions, citizenship action--goal accomplishment, need for and anticipated use of goal-oriented curricula, and need for teacher education related to said…

Excerpts from observers of the conference "Policies, Practices, and Research in Teacher Education: Beyond the Looking Glass" illustrate the variety of recommendations to improve teacher education and the quality of teaching that emerged during this conference. Conference observers were Hendrik Gideonse, Shirley Hord, Thomas J. Lasley, Preston…

The failure of compensatory education programs to demonstrate permanent increases in intelligence with early intervention has constituted a basic challenge to the validity of the early experience paradigm. A reconceptualization of the effects of early experience, emphasizing the cumulative and dialectical nature of development, is needed. (KH)

Posits several ways of interpreting the finding that, nine months to one year after its publication, "A Nation at Risk" had had no direct impact on policies in public school districts in Louisiana. Questions the function of national commissions and whether their work can produce any lasting changes. (RDN)

A case study of the process of policy revision at a state university is used to explore the relationship between content and context of curriculum. Basic concepts and approaches from the field of organization theory were applied to the analysis of curriculum revision. (DF)

This case history of the Colorado Study of Learning Disabilities illustrates a variety of functions an evaluation study may serve for policy shapers at the state level. The impact of the initial evaluation is followed over two years, focusing on its use by influential participants in Colorado's special education policy-shaping community. (BW)

Presents information on Japanese engineering education and productivity which shows that education in Japan has been an instrument to achieve economic ends. Among areas addressed are development of educational policy, industry role, emphasis on engineering since end of World War II, studying in United States, and adaptive approach to…

Defines educational overload as the inability of an individual or organization to respond to a problem or situation in an appropriate period of time resulting in distress for the people involved. Recommends strategies for dealing with overload. (FL)

There is no good method of regulating the educational system based on specific, numerical measurements of labor requirements, and it will be important to integrate uncertainty into future forecasts. Adjustments in demand and supply of educated labor in Norway require a decentralized authority structure providing incentives for institutions and the…

An ongoing need for science policy in the near future will be a continuing emphasis on relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency in research. However, the university's response must be rooted in critical dialog with its environment, frequently reexamining its policy implications. (MSE)