This article describes the events leading to the National Education Association policy statement that encouraged the elimination of group standardized intelligence aptitude, and achievement tests to assess student potential or achievement until completion of a critical appraisal, review, and revision of current testing programs. The NEA also…

Focuses on the efforts made in the decade of the 1960's to improve processes of social choice, so that the economic market could be improved or replaced by satisfactory political arrangements. (Author/JM)

Deals with some problems in the operation of a school in a white middle-class Chicago community and the attempt by a segment of the community to influence the direction of their school. (Author/JM)

An analysis of the President's budget message to the Congress and the provisions of the budget itself which sees the policy therein expressed as the by-product of a view of society and of the proper role of government that is incompatible with the implementation of the precious rights won by minorities in recent years. (Author/JM)

Casts doubts on the current belief that poverty leads to less medical care, and results in diminished health. Holds that level of education is a causal factor in individual health status and medical care utilization; the observed correlation between income and medical deprivation appears to be a consequence of education's relationship with both…

The problem of the white researcher in black communities is approached from a systems perspective with emphasis on relationships, as opposed to variables: the relationships of concern are those between black communities and educational systems in the communities. (Author/JM)

A critical review of the widespread acceptance of accountability, pointing out that accountability is plagued by difficulties with measuring learning, with lack of research evidence to show that it benefits students, and with few plans for formally evaluating these models on a pilot basis before plunging ahead. (Author/JM)

An interview with Wallace Westfeldt, NBC news executive who has been assigned to conduct a thorough study and evaluation of NBC news operations prior to assuming a new post after stepping down as executive producer of NBC-TV nightly news. (JM)

Several questions for educational policy response are raised in this critique of the draft report of the Commission on Post Secondary Education in Ontario, Canada. (JH)

Drawing attention to the important distinction between macro- and micro-employment policy, traces and analyzes the evolution of American employment public policy. (JM)

A shift in the concentration of power for education decision making from church to state is taking place, with the image of the Christian mission as a humanitarian and civilizing agency changing to that of an intruding and obtrusive alien organization. (JM)

Thirty-eight high school principals and 237 members of their teaching staffs from an eight county area in New York participated in a study which examined personality characteristics of the principal and teacher participation in the decision-making process. (Authors)