Describes and explains the role of 14 ethnic fraternal associations in promoting the individual and social health of their members through benefit programs. (Author/AM)

A member of the Commission on the Year 2000 recalls the practical hazards and psychic rewards of forecasting the future of a nation. (Editor/LBH)

The educational value of standardized tests and their fairness to racial and ethnic groups continue to be intensely debated issues that affect public policies. This article summarizes many of the prominent points of view and suggests a series of six policy alternatives as possible solutions to the controversies. (Editor/LBH)

Discusses the role of effective planning in carrying out administrative reform in Arab countries. Present administrative backwardness is characterized by inefficiency, inability to keep up with educational trends, remoteness from current trends in management science, and inability to prepare for future educational development. Strategies for…

Summarizes and discusses a set of interviews with program specialists and managers conducted early in the spring of 1974 in several federal government agencies. These interviews attempted to determine the status of anthropology in educational research programs, to identify issues and problems concerning anthropology's role in educational research,…

Reviews some major characteristics of ethnography as they apply to policy issues and policy formulation, and ethnography's utility from the perspective of how public educational policy is made. Discusses the potential contributions of ethnography and the responsibilities ethnographers must consider if their work is to have an impact on public…

Describes the authors' experiences in attempting to link a mental health public service announcement to some television shows and the difficulties they encountered as a result of network policies. Summarizes the policy issues and suggests some alternative policies. (Author/JM)

The Bains Report was meant to produce order out of chaos in local government. But Avon's corporate management row last autumn suggested it may have done more harm than good. This article, the first in a two-part series, reports on its impact elsewhere. (Editor/RK)

Examines superintendents' attitudes toward community participation at the advisory and control levels in four areas of educational policy-making. (Author)

Describes the development of a policy at the University of Colorado to catalog, package, house, and circulate books with accompanying electronic media. Highlights include a literature review, motivation, a processing flowchart, retrospective conversion of older materials, and an example of a MARC record. (Author/LRW)

College and university fund-raising programs should have a written policy to make donor thank-yous part of office routine. Reviewing existing donor files can help codify existing policy and practice. Larger offices may need policies for different gift types and sizes. Innovative ways of recognizing donors, such as special events, gifts, and…

Discusses the issues addressed in following articles of this issue of the journal, focusing on policy community, which educational research had too often ignored when making educational decisions. Insights from educational research are used to suggest what policy processes and reform initiatives should do rather than simple criticizing what policy…

The report, prepared by the American Association of University Professors' Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, outlines new proposed policy on posttenure review of faculty. It presents arguments for and against the practice, discusses its use for dismissal purposes, offers guidelines for establishment of a system for periodic evaluation of…

Argues that language provides not only a central identity variable but also constitutes a key means by which people can either gain access to power or be excluded from the right to exercise control over their lives. Argues that, if language is materially and culturally rooted, issues of language rights cannot be addressed outside of social policy.…

In response to a changing world and changing academic fields, a "to do" list for members of the Comparative and International Education Society focuses on creating alliances that are policy advocates for education, building bridges from past to present to future and between changing populations and new educational needs, and confessing…