The next decade will see the workload of Congress increase as its power weakens. The result may be more delay and confusion in the decision-making process. (RM)

Educators and legislators tend to have differing impressions of the definition of educational quality. Components of quality can be classified into three categories: (1) input, e.g., student characteristics, such as grade point average and test scores, and faculty characteristics, such as advanced degrees and publications; (2) environment/process,…

Results of a two-year research project (1982-84) on Legislative and Representative Ethics are presented in this report, which analyzes the basic principles of legislative ethics, discusses the special dilemmas and obligations of legislators, and offers conclusions about future steps that could be taken to enhance public discussion and to reinforce…

Presentations on the flight from public schools given at a seminar for legislators are briefly highlighted in this paper. Seventeen topics are covered including enrollment expectations, Christian schools, urban education, ethnic clustering, and confidence in public education. (WD)

Policymakers in many states are critical of college faculty salaries based on their ill-informed perceptions of faculty workload and perquisites, seldom acknowledging the real reason for rising costs in higher education, its rapid expansion. Faculty and administrators must work together to devise persuasive answers to hostile inquiries by critics…

An interview with Senator Bill Bradley (Democrat of New Jersey) covers such issues as the legislator's candid confrontation of racial issues, racial bias and education, higher education's role in social change, the value of campus racial and ethnic caucuses, and payment of revenue-generating college athletes. (MSE)

Notes that, despite years of public outcry, children's issues still receive little attention from legislators and others in public policy. Suggests that lack of active commitment and involvement by administrators, teachers, and the public permit this to continue. Offers four key ingredients that together comprise a strategic framework for action…

Analysis of the Wisconsin woman suffrage campaign of 1910-1920 suggests that public relations belonged not only to political or business practices, but was equally a process by which the masses achieved their own best interests in nineteenth and early twentieth century social reform movements. Woman suffragists were led by women, and the public…