Both general and miscellaneous policy statements from 47 public libraries of the Pacific Northwest Library Association have been compiled in this manual. Among topics covered by "general" policies are board of trustees, buildings, confidentiality of circulation records, displays, gifts, materials selection, personnel, public relations, and…

Building on the 1983 policy statement developed by the International Council for Computers in Education (ICCE), this statement recommends the adoption of a school district copyright policy, adoption of the suggested software use guidelines, and use of the copyright page of software documentation to ascertain user's rights, obligations, and licence…

Four authors give their views on the recent teacher education reform reports. Topics include (1) issues that led to teacher education reform, (2) questions the reports raise, and (3) problems raised by the report recommendations and possible solutions. (CH)

Argues that, properly understood, divorce mediation represents a rejection of a legal model of divorce and a substitution of a mental health model, and shows how such a model would be applied to the disputes between separating and divorcing couples. (Author/MCF)

Presents American School Counselor Association standards of ethics for school counselors. These include responsibilities to pupils, parents, colleagues and professional associates, self, and profession. Also discusses maintenance of standards and resources. (JAC)

It is the position of the Music Educators National Conference that the study of religious music is a vital and appropriate part of the total music experience. To omit sacred music from education would present an incorrect and incomplete concept of the comprehensive nature of the art. (RM)

Uses Titmuss's model of three welfare systems to analyze how the rapidly expanding system of tax benefits available to middle- and upper-income groups parallels the social welfare system for the poor. Operating as a shadow welfare state, the tax benefits system contributes to the upward redistribution of income. (Author/JAC)

Suggests that family specialists should be aware of how families influence legal policy and how policy influences families. Family specialists can become meaningfully involved in this process through expert testimony, research and publication, and joining and legislatures in affecting social change. (JAC)

This brief document provides the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) mission statement, information about AACC as an organization, AACC departments, contacts, projected revenues and expenditures 2004-2005. It also includes a section on community college facts "at a glance," which provides statistics on the number and type of…

Head Start is a comprehensive federal preschool program, serving children prenatal through age 5 and their families with the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families. Noting that the program has typically garnered strong support from political liberals and moderates, this position paper of the…

The Committee for Economic Development (CED), an independent research and policy organization of approximately 250 business leaders and educators, issued this report as a statement calling on federal and state governments to make early education available to all children age three and over. The statement maintains that in order to ensure that all…

During the middle school years, young adolescent students can use reading to help answer profound questions about themselves and the world. It is during the middle school years that most students refine their reading preferences; become sophisticated readers of informational text; and lay the groundwork for the lifelong reading habits they will…

This position paper on teaching children to read explains with several examples exactly what "quagmires" are and how they hamper children as they learn the elements of reading basics. The paper takes a multidisciplinary approach to attacking stumbling blocks to learning most often experienced by child learners. To explain the concept of quagmire,…

Examines the maxim commonly held and generally supported in the divorce therapy literature that the preferred treatment in divorce therapy is individual counseling, and considers conjoint and family treatment as viable alternatives. Assesses how a therapist's theory of divorce therapy dictates the treatment unit adopted. (JAC)

Discusses the role and importance of the arts for education and society, arguing that the arts are not fluff to be eliminated from resource-limited curriculums, but are an important aspect of stimulating human imagination, thinking processes and the ability to feel. (WAS)