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Olson, Steve – National Academies Press, 2008
The federal government plays the predominant role in supporting research and development (R&D) and in establishing public policies that affect science and technology (S&T) in the United States. However, the federal government is no longer the sole focus of R&D funding and S&T policy making. State and local policy makers are…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Federal Government, Government Role, State Government
Elias-Olivares, Lucia, Ed. – 1983
The role and use of Spanish in the geographic areas outside of the U.S. Southwest are examined in a collection of 16 conference papers. The papers address the general topics of language contact, linguistic variation, sociolinguistic factors, and language maintenance policy, and planning. Among the specific issues discussed are: a dialectology of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Hispanic Americans, Interference (Language), Language Maintenance
Riddell, Abby – 2002
This book contains two case studies--one from Zambia, one from Mozambique--of the implications for donors of pursuing sector-wide approaches (SWAps) in education. (A sector-wide approach is characterized as a sustained partnership led by national authorities involving different arms of government and, where relevant, donor agencies, with the goals…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Cooperation, Budgets, Donors