Fostering an ethic of active citizenship is typically a key goal for national service. However, national service advocates often assume that national service will act as civic education, paying insufficient attention to what this means and how different policy designs further or undermine different conceptions or aspects of citizenship. This paper…

This report presents data on federal government aid to state and local governments by state and U.S. Outlying Area. Coverage is restricted to federal government expenditures for grants and other financial assistance to state and local governments for which data are available by state and outlying area. For fiscal year 2003 (October 1, 2002, to…

This paper describes a VD Awareness Project initiated in Los Angeles in 1972. Youth are involved in this problem by telling their peers about VD. The project is considered a success because of the widespread dissemination of VD information among the youth, an increase in the development of interpersonal and leadership skills of the students…

Voluntary agencies serving the visually handicapped will face new responsibilities due to the change in reordering of priorities in the federal program of income maintenance and the availability of a more accurate picture of the actual composition of the blind population of the United States. (Author/DB)

Article considers the establishment of policies and strategies to facilitate the free movement of students within and among postsecondary institutions in order to implement their continuing educational plans. (Author/RK)

In an interview (part of a series), Jon Fuller of the Office of Education maintains that education must be responsive to the student's individual needs, broaden his awareness of career alternatives, and ease the transition from secondary school to a job or to post-secondary training through effective counseling. (AG)

The statistics, legal situation, and European agency cooperation in relation to student mobility in Europe involve several political questions in relation to a unified system of higher education. (KM)

Analysis of the findings revealed patterns involving caseworker--family contact, caseworker stability and experience, and caseload ratio. The initially favorable impact of the assets that an agency puts into the service of children placed in foster care diminishes over time. This was indicated by a five-year study involving seventy agencies in the…

MIDNY'', an acronym for Mid-New York--a five county area, was involved in a six year Cooperative Extension Service pilot effort in community resource development. (Author/RK)

Studied implementation of air quality management in two western New York counties by interviewing three enforcement agencies and 30 industrial firms. Concluded that critical problems existed in the transient nature of contaminant emissions and the control of regulatory power by industries. (CC)

The Finnish Municipal Association offers planning, consulting, and training services to the municipalities to assist them in the management and development of their administration and economy. (Author/GB)

Cooperative efforts between Fort Detrick and various organizations over the past eight years and the consequences of these efforts are discussed. (26 references) (Authors)

To help the schools meet society's changing demands, the Saskatchewan Educational Research Association was formed, to stimulate and co-ordinate research efforts. (Author)

Describes a project to encourage communication between adult education programmers and an example of its utilization in one community. (SP)