This document, the sixth of a final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Program in Educational Research, is a collection of three essays. The first--Notes on the History of Interdisciplinarity--by Judy Rosen, brings together and outlines the general points and findings of the literature that has been generated in an attempt to evaluate the…

This document is designed to help state directors/coordinators become more knowledgeable about needs assessment in career education, particularly in reference to States' application for Federal assistance. The following topics are discussed in separate sections: What needs assessment is; who should be included in a needs assessment of career…

A critique of the Arts, Americans, and Education Panel report, "Coming to Our Senses," for its study methods, its national policy recommendations, and its rhetorical styling. (SJL)

It is difficult to base evaluations on concepts irrelevant to state policy making. Evaluation of a multiproject program requires both time and differentiation of method. Data from the California Early Childhood Program illustrate process variables for program component analysis, and research questions for intraprogram comparison. (CP)

The director of the Office of Career Education (OCE) discusses the federal role in career education administration and the relationships among OCE, the National Institute of Education, and the National Advisory Council for Career Education. Attention is focused on the primary function of OCE, administrative actions related to developing,…

Nothing is better calculated to drive a wedge between the corporate community and our universities than efforts on the part of business to dictate to a community of scholars how it shall fulfill its mission. (Author)

Developing comparable data for policy-making and financial support allocation for health professions education creates difficult problems for state-level decision-makers. The experience of the New Jersey Department of Higher Education in collaboration with the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is reported. (Author/LBH)

Some of the organizational, institutional, and pragmatic issues involved in teaching, research, and public service are discussed, including implications for the development and continuation of university urban center programs and related activities. (Author/AM)

The federal role in education is likely to shift in the years ahead, says the Commission of Education, and so may the social functions of many institutions of higher learning. Discussed are federal goals, access to education, core curricula, federal aid and intervention, and governmental decision-making. (LBH)

A policy framework is suggested for the development of higher education in India over the next 10 to 15 years. Included are considerations of university system role, access to higher education, undergraduate study, graduate study, diversification and decentralization, autonomy, extension services, standards, and government role. (LBH)

Since children represent well over 50 percent of the world's population and are completely excluded from reporting, evaluating, and policymaking processes, an opening up of these processes to all young persons would in the long run represent a revolution of unimaginable proportions. (Author/AM)

Notes that the abundant supply of teachers provides unprecedented opportunity for improvements in school and teacher education programs, as well as for selective recruiting of students preparing to teach and upgrading teachers with substandard qualifications. (Author/AM)

Notes that the forces of exploitation and racism relegate millions of human beings to a developmental cycle characterized by excessive and disproportionate infant mortality, maternal mortality, premature births, hunger and malnutrition, lead poisoning and untreated chronic disabilities. (Author)

The academic sector must demonstrate its awareness of the implications of international educational exchange on particular disciplines, the quality of U.S. academic institutions amd on their economic health, the economic and social conditions of surrounding communities, and U.S. foreign policies. (MLW)

Uses Israel as an example to examine three variables--size, organizational mode, and political value system--and their effects on educational policy making and planning at a national level. Argues that in Israel's case small size, centralization, and democracy interact to create a new type of planning behavior termed the enlightenment approach.…